{"id":2940,"date":"2008-07-17T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2009-03-06T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:59:41","slug":"carlsbad-pf-changs-on-the-slow-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad PF Chang&#8217;s On The Slow Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pfchangs.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pfchangs.jpg','popup','width=685,height=351,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pfchangs-tm.jpg\" height=\"102\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pfchangs\" \/><\/a>As much as we hate chain restaurants, there is something about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/16\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/zff5477e04c55252f882574890019497e.txt\" target=\"_blank\">PF Chang&#8217;s China Bistro<\/a><\/strong> that forces us to drive to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simon.com\/mall\/default.aspx?ID=765\" target=\"_blank\">Fashion Valley<\/a><\/strong> at least once a month for hot and sour soup and vegetarian lettuce wraps. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re shamelessly excited by the fact that the Carlsbad planning commission has approved &#8220;a P.F. Chang&#8217;s Chinese bistro, a second yet-to-be-determined restaurant and a two-story, 44,400-square-foot complex of upscale shops,&#8221; on Paseo del norte  next to King&#8217;s Fish House across from the Premium Outlet Mall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Developers had planned to put a hotel on the 7-acre site along Paseo del Norte, but reconsidered because of height and parking limitations, said <strong>Peter Aylward<\/strong>, president of the company that owns the land. . . . &#8220;Architecturally, I think it&#8217;s a good thing for Carlsbad,&#8221; Aylward said as he described how the project would look from the east on Paseo del Norte and from the west on Interstate 5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project still needs the approval of the City Council, but then, they seem to love taking empty land and filling it with stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/16\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/zff5477e04c55252f882574890019497e.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as we hate chain restaurants, there is something about PF Chang&#8217;s China Bistro that forces us to drive to Fashion Valley at least once a month for hot and sour soup and vegetarian lettuce wraps. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re shamelessly excited by the fact that the Carlsbad planning commission has approved &#8220;a P.F. Chang&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}