{"id":596,"date":"2009-12-01T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-11-30T18:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T23:19:36","slug":"great-meals-el-peurto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/12\/great-meals-el-peurto\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Meals: El Peurto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>We were in Wytheville, Virginia (pronounced with-ville or as the young woman in the motel lobby said &#8220;wee-ith-vee-ill&#8221;).\u00a0 Our motel was tucked in an odd corner of a street just off Route 11 and Interstate 81. Sort of around the corner next to a traffic light was this little Mexican Restaurant called El Peurto.<\/p>\n<p>It was great.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the classic hole-in-the-wall place. It was of good size, well kept, and there were a number of people in there at five in the evening. I guess I didn&#8217;t expect much from a Mexican place in a town called Wee-ith-vee-ill. Happily, my expectations were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember what I ate that evening, but I remember it was good. It wasn&#8217;t just the good that comes at the end of a 16-mile walk on a day when the weather goes from fog to hot sun to threatening dark clouds. It was the good that comes from fresh ingredients, an owner who isn&#8217;t cheap in buying those ingredients, and someone in the kitchen who can cook Mexican food with zest and love.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in Southern Virginia,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>take exit 73 on I-81<\/li>\n<li>head towards town<\/li>\n<li>take a quick left on Main Dr<\/li>\n<li>take a quick right of Chapman Rd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is easy to miss as it is tucked in a corner in a little side road off a side road.<\/p>\n<p>El Peurto, <span id=\"adr\" class=\"adr\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"street-address\">715 Chapman Rd<\/span>, <span class=\"locality\">Wytheville<\/span>, <span class=\"region\">VA<\/span><\/span>? &#8211; <span id=\"adr\" class=\"adr\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><span class=\"nw\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"tel\">(276) 228-3159<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We were in Wytheville, Virginia (pronounced with-ville or as the young woman in the motel lobby said &#8220;wee-ith-vee-ill&#8221;).\u00a0 Our motel was tucked in an odd corner of a street just off Route 11 and Interstate 81. Sort of around the corner next to a traffic light was this little Mexican Restaurant called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[144,93,110],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia","tag-food","tag-restaurants","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}