{"id":231,"date":"2008-07-22T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-09-21T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T01:48:27","slug":"babycakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Babycakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David's Coffee Place is apparently now replaced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/babycakes.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of the front exterior of Babycakes]\" \/> An expert came and inspected the piano, which is being sold.<\/p> <p>Again, I regret these changes, though in most cases the new owners may be making the best choices available to them.<\/p> <p>Meanwhile, a block-and-a-half north, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millefeuillechocolates.com\/\">a place named <q>Mille Feuille<\/q><\/a> is scheduled to open in August.  They advertise themselves primarily as a chocolatier and bakery, but apparently will be offering tea and sandwiches as well.  Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a> has been envisioned as having more in the way of desserts and baked goods than David's Coffee Place, and as more of a restaurant, the appearance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millefeuillechocolates.com\/\">Mille Feuille<\/a> may be a problem for them. (There are many other restaurants in the immediate area, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millefeuillechocolates.com\/\">Mille Feuille<\/a> seems to be closer in intended product mix.)<\/p><p> <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">Addendum<\/span> (23 July)<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">:<\/span> The piano that is being sold is a baby grand (in fact, an especially small baby grand, but with a good lower range).  I was informed last night that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a> has an upright piano that they will be putting into service. (The notion being that it will take less floor space.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David's Coffee Place is apparently now replaced with Babycakes. An expert came and inspected the piano, which is being sold. Again, I regret these changes, though in most cases the new owners may be making the best choices available to them. Meanwhile, a block-and-a-half north, a place named Mille Feuille is scheduled to open in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,5,4],"tags":[216,85,84],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-personal","category-public","tag-babycakes","tag-davids-coffee-place","tag-hillcrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}