{"id":306365,"date":"2025-12-09T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:21:12","slug":"italian-restaurants-now-are-too-good-for-jamie-to-pull-off-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306365\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian restaurants now are too good for Jamie to pull off a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember having my first meat plank in the Oxford restaurant \u2014 the first to open \u2014 in 2008. It was next door to the pub I was working at, so we went in almost immediately and were treated wonderfully because there\u2019s always an understanding among hospitality workers. The cured Italian meats, folded on top of a slab of rustic wood, this sitting on two cans of chopped tomatoes, were worth \u00a36.50. And the menu was littered with Oliverisms: the \u201cworld\u2019s best olives\u201d, Jamie\u2019s \u201cmusic bread\u201d, a \u201cCatherine wheel sausage\u201d that arrived on top of Parmesan and mushroom polenta. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I remember having my first meat plank in the Oxford restaurant \u2014 the first to open \u2014 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,122616,59,1645,43468,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-306365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-celebrity-chef","tag-gb","tag-jamie-oliver","tag-leicester-square","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}