{"id":328,"date":"2015-05-15T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=328"},"modified":"2015-05-15T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:14:10","slug":"bar-review-mastros-steakhouse-costa-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Bar Review: Mastro’s Steakhouse, Costa Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Martini<\/a>\"Martini<\/a>I did a review of Mastro’s in Thousand Oaks a few months ago and recently had the pleasure of visiting their Costa Mesa facility.\u00a0 One would hope that the martini in Costa Mesa would be as fine as that in Thousand Oaks.<\/p>\n

I am pleased to report that it was.\u00a0 This small Southern California chain of steak houses really does an exceptional job of constructing their Martinis.\u00a0 As in Thousand Oaks, the martini was well chilled, perfectly mixed, and served in a chilled stem.\u00a0\u00a0 As before the shaker was left on the table so the Martini could be ‘topped off’.<\/p>\n

Oh and the food and service were, as expected, outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a review of Mastro’s in Thousand Oaks a few months ago and recently had the pleasure of visiting their Costa Mesa facility.\u00a0 One would hope that the martini in Costa Mesa would be as fine as that in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[11,10,12],"tags":[3,5,2,9,13,7],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135,"url":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=135","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":0},"title":"Bar Review: Mastro’s Thousand Oaks","author":"wlmoon58","date":"March 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to long ago I was in Thousand Oaks and stopped in at Mastro's.\u00a0 I've been there several times, but never to specifically review their Martini. 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