{"id":2531,"date":"2008-03-23T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:31:44","slug":"magic-carpet-going-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Magic Carpet Out Of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a kosher Yemenite restaurant on Pico Blvd. I had readers who gave me a combined $1200 tab there. I&#8217;ve eaten there about 50 times. I&#8217;ve had a ton of dates there. Sometimes they led to great things.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite dish was the melawach (though it was heavy and would sit in your stomach for about eight hours).<\/p>\n<p>The place always seems to be busy but it has closed. Its last night was March 23. The owner is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Two other kosher restaurants went out of business in Los Angeles in the past two months &#8212; Prime Grill and Mamash.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the story with bbc cafe in malibu?&nbsp; My friend dialed the phone number yesterday and it said it was disconnected.&nbsp; Are they out of business?&nbsp; Also, what happened to a place&nbsp;called Greta&#8217;s?&nbsp; Do they still exist?<\/p>\n<p>Around America, synagogues are cutting back on discretionary spending and there&#8217;s far less demand for scholars in residence etc.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a kosher Yemenite restaurant on Pico Blvd. I had readers who gave me a combined $1200 tab there. I&#8217;ve eaten there about 50 times. I&#8217;ve had a ton of dates there. Sometimes they led to great things. My favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,56],"tags":[2830,3115,2831,2828,2827,2826,2016,2825,3114,3116,1017,2829,2832],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kashrut","category-picorobertson","tag-baubles","tag-bbc","tag-discretionary-spending","tag-eight-hours","tag-favorite-dish","tag-going-out-of-business","tag-kosher-restaurants","tag-magic-carpet","tag-malibu","tag-phone-number","tag-pico-blvd","tag-stomach","tag-synagogues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}