{"id":1250,"date":"2009-07-12T23:49:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:44:07","slug":"ristorate-dorando-san-gimignano-faux-gourmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Ristorate Dorando, San Gimignano, Tuscany &#8211; Faux Gourmet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situated in the beautiful\u00a0Tuscan medieval hill town of San Gimignano, <a title=\"Dorando\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ristorantedorando.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ristorante Dorando<\/a> is the\u00a0place that first got me using the term &#8220;Faux Gourmet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2882\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP1875.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2882\" title=\"IMGP1875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP1875-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP1875\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP1875-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP1875.JPG 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Gimignano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I use it to apply to\u00a0places that have\u00a0all the apparent trappings of a gourmet restaurant, i.e., the look, the prices\u00a0and the marketing hype,\u00a0which\u00a0then subsequently\u00a0fail to deliver anything close to the level of food or service expected in real gourmet restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 4<\/p>\n<p>Service 4<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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>Situated in the beautiful\u00a0Tuscan medieval hill town of San Gimignano, Ristorante Dorando is the\u00a0place that first got me using the term &#8220;Faux Gourmet&#8221;. I use it to apply to\u00a0places that have\u00a0all the apparent trappings of a gourmet restaurant, i.e., the look, the prices\u00a0and the marketing hype,\u00a0which\u00a0then subsequently\u00a0fail to deliver anything close to the level of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=1250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ristorate Dorando, San Gimignano, Tuscany &#8211; Faux Gourmet!&#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":[25,123],"tags":[139,137,138],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expensive","category-italy","tag-faux-gourmet","tag-ristorate-dorando","tag-san-gimignano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","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=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29786,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/29786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}