{"id":22846,"date":"2023-06-16T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22846"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:39:08","slug":"a-sure-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/a-sure-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sure Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e9e9e9&amp;d=pm_summerguide_2023&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=194&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p2\">Dinner as theater: starry night, starry restaurant.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span>t\u2019s a perfect Saturday night. There are three of us tonight, one an electric motorcycle entrepreneur from Malawi, Africa, so<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">we feel luck is with us when we sail into the Old Port and snag a Free Street parking spot (it\u2019s after 6 p.m.) directly opposite <strong>Sur Lie<\/strong>. This is a go-to \u2018meet-you-at\u2019 spot, deftly and gracefully designed in warm earth tones. The mood and lighting are perfect to let our day unwind.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What better place to eavesdrop in the Arts District? At the next table I hear a low voice: \u201cI like the way you paint. And I like the way you look.\u201d A sure lie? Of course it elicits an appreciative chuckle.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><em>Sur Lie<\/em> refers to the aging of wine, but lines like this never get old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Corner-Table.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Corner-Table.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Corner-Table-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Corner-Table-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Corner-Table-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Corner-Table-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner as theater: starry night, starry restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1276],"class_list":["post-22846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-summerguide-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22866,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22846\/revisions\/22866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}