{"id":258,"date":"2008-02-02T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2008\/02\/02\/tables-on-the-river\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:10:00","slug":"tables-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Tables on the River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch, not unless you give up work to go touring and your work mates get you a meal voucher for your leaving gift.<\/p>\n<p>I gave up work to go touring NZ and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The meal voucher was for Tables on the River in Hamilton, NZ. Although booked for 21st December, Jo and I eventually made it to the restaurant on January 31st, the day before we left for Aussie.<\/p>\n<p>After getting our hairs cut we went into Hamilton to find the restaurant. This we did fairly easily as it is almost next door to the casino.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/img_20291.jpg' title='Tables on the River'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/02\/img_2029.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Tables on the River' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the restaurant is called Tables on the River it is in fact set back slightly, having a footpath and trees between itself and the river. Although we had glipses of the river from our table.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/img_20301.jpg' title='Starters'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/02\/img_2030.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Starters' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always we had to have a bottle of wine with the meal. Jo gets her drink first.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/img_20311.jpg' title='Jo with the bottle of wine'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/02\/img_2031.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Jo with the bottle of wine' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t decide which meal to have so I opted for the Chefs selection of tasters.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/img_20321.jpg' title='My main the Chef\u2019s choice of tasters'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/02\/img_2032.thumbnail.jpg' alt='My main the Chef\u2019s choice of tasters' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and Jo opted for the fish<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/img_20331.jpg' title='Jo\u2019s main Fresh Snapper on mushrooms'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/02\/img_2033.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Jo\u2019s main Fresh Snapper on mushrooms' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So thank you all at Getronics for a lovely meal.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re off to the casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike: There&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch, not unless you give up work to go touring and your work mates get you a meal voucher for your leaving gift. I gave up work to go touring NZ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-4a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}