{"id":1855,"date":"2009-05-22T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2021-10-31T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T22:29:20","slug":"silenus-loosing-its-midas-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Silenus &#8211; Losing its Midas touch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Silenus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurantsilenus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silenus<\/a> was always one of the better restaurants in the Ravel area. We have had some really good dishes there,\u00a0 but on a more recent visit the food was quite ordinary. It had shifted its direction from fusion to more traditional. However it may be on the way back to fusion as recent research shows it being described now as doing\u00a0 International\/Japanese cuisine (Japanese food is very trendy in Barcelona at the moment), so who knows.\u00a0 On the plus side it is a fairly laid back\u00a0 place to eat, so we may give it another try on our next visit to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP11121.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1854\" title=\"IMGP1112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP11121-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP1112\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP11121-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP11121.JPG 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 5<\/p>\n<p>Service 5<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 5.5<\/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>Silenus was always one of the better restaurants in the Ravel area. We have had some really good dishes there,\u00a0 but on a more recent visit the food was quite ordinary. It had shifted its direction from fusion to more traditional. However it may be on the way back to fusion as recent research shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=1855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silenus &#8211; Losing its Midas touch?&#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":[9,356,29],"tags":[90,188],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barcelona","category-out-door-seating","category-spain","tag-el-raval","tag-silenus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29838,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/29838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}