{"id":167,"date":"2008-11-05T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/11\/05\/smac\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:34:42","slug":"smac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"s&#8217;mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first learned of S&#8217;Mac back in June during my visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/06\/05\/bridge-cafe\/\">Bridge Cafe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later in June I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/06\/19\/growlers-pub\/\">Growler&#8217;s<\/a> outside of St Louis, and found some pretty darn good mac and cheese there.<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smacnyc.com\/what.html\">advertise<\/a> &#8220;New York&#8217;s best Macarroni and Cheese&#8221;. I haven&#8217;t had mac &amp; cheese elsewhere in the city, but if someone else is going to top them, they&#8217;ll need to go a long way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>My dad had the Major Munch Cheeseburger mac. I went for the Major Munch Buffalo Chicken. I probably should&#8217;ve gone for the Nosh size instead, but I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>345 E 12th St is cramped, colored like it&#8217;s the inside of a macarroni, and doesn&#8217;t do refills on drinks (they server cans and bottles only). But they live up to their promoted reputation of having awesome mac &amp; cheese.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived with the joint only a third full. By the time they brought our fresh-baked concoctions to us in personal cast iron pans, every table was full, and the line of folks waiting to get their own pan was 12 deep &#8211; which is quite an accomplishment in such a tiny space! And on top of this, it was Halloween! Who goes out to eat on Halloween? (OK, other than the obvious, &#8220;I do&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>I was still a little full from our excursion to Bridge Cafe for <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/11\/03\/bridge-cafe-this-time-with-food\/\">lunch<\/a>, so ended up getting the rest of my mac &amp; cheese to go.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something sit-down and relaxing, S&#8217;Mac is not for you.<\/p>\n<p>If you want great food, fantastic prices (especially for NYC), and fast service &#8211; then go S&#8217;mac yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first learned of S&#8217;Mac back in June during my visit to Bridge Cafe. Later in June I went to Growler&#8217;s outside of St Louis, and found some pretty darn good mac and cheese there. They advertise &#8220;New York&#8217;s best Macarroni and Cheese&#8221;. I haven&#8217;t had mac &amp; cheese elsewhere in the city, but if &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=167\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">s&#8217;mac<\/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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15,16],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-food","category-fun"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}