{"id":11064,"date":"2010-08-22T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=11064"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:54:58","slug":"4030-at-the-gherkin-coolest-venue-of-the-noughties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=11064","title":{"rendered":"40|30 at the Gherkin &#8211; COOLest venue of the Noughties!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last visit to <a title=\"40|30 The Gherkin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.searcys.co.uk\/4030thegherkin\/\" target=\"_self\">40|30 Restaurant at the Gherkin<\/a> was in January, long enough a gap in my view.\u00a0 So it was back again with a group of friends to enjoy a night out in the one of the\u00a0 &#8220;<a title=\"Coolest venue of the Noughties\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prestigeeventsguide.com\/cms\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=134&amp;Itemid=99999999&amp;limit=1&amp;limitstart=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COOLest venues of the Noughties<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>So is it still &#8220;Cool&#8221;? &#8211; Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>This place has substance and style, there is no question that 40|30 is continuing to delivering first class food in a first class venue.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11064 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3402.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG3402-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_CIMG34051.jpg'><img 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size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_IMAG0195.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_IMAG0195-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_IMAG0197.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tn_IMAG0197-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon 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tell by the empty plates at our table just how much we all enjoyed the food.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last visit to 40|30 Restaurant at the Gherkin was in January, long enough a gap in my view.\u00a0 So it was back again with a group of friends to enjoy a night out in the one of the\u00a0 &#8220;COOLest venues of the Noughties&#8220;. So is it still &#8220;Cool&#8221;? &#8211; Absolutely. This place has substance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=11064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;40|30 at the Gherkin &#8211; COOLest venue of the Noughties!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,494,8],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expensive","category-london","category-private-members-club","category-uk","tag-gherkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29797,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions\/29797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}