{"id":12223,"date":"2016-05-20T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=12223"},"modified":"2016-05-20T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:39:47","slug":"local-boy-and-his-restaurant-makes-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/05\/local-boy-and-his-restaurant-makes-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Local boy (and his restaurant) makes good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard alignleft wp-image-12224 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"Local kitchen\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Well, this is pretty cool. <a href=\"http:\/\/localbillings.com\/\">Local Kitchen and Bar<\/a>, which we profiled when it opened and where we have eaten many times since, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/food-drink\/restaurants\/best-eco-friendly-restaurants-united-states\/montana\">selected by Travel and Leisure<\/a> as the best farm-to-table restaurant in Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The short article doesn&#8217;t say whether Lynn Donaldson-Vermillion helped Travel and Leisure make the selection, but it does quote her extensively. If you haven&#8217;t checked out Lynn&#8217;s elegant, mouth-watering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/food-drink\/restaurants\/best-eco-friendly-restaurants-united-states\/montana\">Last Best Plates<\/a> website (great name, too!), here&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n<p>Local Kitchen chef Travis Stimpson worked at some great downtown Billings restaurants\u2014Walkers Grill, Cafe Italia and Lilac\u2014before deciding to bring a bit of the downtown to the West End, just off\u00a0Shiloh Road and Grand Avenue at\u00a01430 Country Manor Blvd., to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>My own favorite lately is the bison hash. We&#8217;ll let <a href=\"http:\/\/localbillings.com\/menu\/\">the menu<\/a> describe it for us: &#8220;Bison sausage with potatoes, greens, and garden onion in Havarti cream with candied red peppers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the whole crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is pretty cool. Local Kitchen and Bar, which we profiled when it opened and where we have eaten many times since, was selected by Travel and Leisure as the best farm-to-table restaurant in Montana. The short article doesn&#8217;t say whether Lynn Donaldson-Vermillion helped Travel and Leisure make the selection, but it does quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3102,647,4396,4397,4398,3099,721],"class_list":["post-12223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cafe-italia","tag-lilac","tag-local-kitchen-and-bar","tag-lynn-donaldson","tag-travel-and-leisure","tag-travis-stimpson","tag-walkers-grill","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}