{"id":532,"date":"2011-10-06T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:35:56","slug":"santa-cruz-restaurant-week-at-clouds-laili-25-for-3-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Restaurant Week at Clouds &#038; Laili: $25 for 3 courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_533\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sc-rest-week-clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-533\" title=\"sc rest week clouds\" src=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sc-rest-week-clouds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sc-rest-week-clouds-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sc-rest-week-clouds.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clouds puff pastry and mixed berry cobbler desserts from a previous Santa Cruz Restaurant Week<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Attention those seeking bargain gourmet meals: Santa Cruz Restaurant Week is currently running, with 3-course $25 meals at local restaurants including downtown Santa Cruz\u2019s Clouds www.cloudsdowntown.com &#8212; which is serving up New Orleans-themed food &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lailirestaurant.com\/\">Laili<\/a>, which offers scrumptious Middle Eastern food. Menus are below. For more details, read my <a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=516\">SC Restaurant Week event preview<\/a> (includes list of participating restaurants) and my <a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=522\">article on Aquarius<\/a> (with special restaurant week menu).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com\/\">Click here<\/a> for SC Restaurant Week web site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Special $25 three-course menu<\/strong> for <a href=\"www.cloudsdowntown.com\">Clouds<\/a> from Oct 5-12, beverage, tax, tip not included:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>First course<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Choose one)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cheddar hushpuppies tomato salad with ricotta salata<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Louisiana sunburst salad with dried cranberries, almonds, Stilton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Barbecue shrimp salad<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Second course<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Choose one)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New Orleans style gumbo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blackened red fish<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Steak Diane<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dessert course<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Choose one)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bread pudding with bourbon sauce<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chocolate dipped beignets<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Clouds: 110 Church Street, Santa Cruz 95060, make reservations at (831) 429-2000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Special $25 three-course menu<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lailirestaurant.com\/\">Laili<\/a> from Oct 5-12, beverage, tax, tip not included:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>First course<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Choose one)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Naan with tabouleh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Organic greens with pomegranate seeds and cardamom dressing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pumpkin boranee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Second course<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Choose one)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chicken kabob with saffron basmati rice, roasted vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pomegranate eggplant with saffron basmati rice, chard, caramelized onion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Beef filet kabob with kabuli rice, roasted vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dessert course<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Choose one)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Baklava<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cardamom rice pudding<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chocolate mousse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Laili: 101B Cooper Street, Santa Cruz 95060, make reservations at (831) 423-4545.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/santacruzfoodie\" rel=\"nofollow\">@santacruzfoodie.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention those seeking bargain gourmet meals: Santa Cruz Restaurant Week is currently running, with 3-course $25 meals at local restaurants including downtown Santa Cruz\u2019s Clouds www.cloudsdowntown.com &#8212; which is serving up New Orleans-themed food &#8212; and Laili, which offers scrumptious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[138,6,38,115,217,43,7,215,4],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-restaurants","tag-clouds","tag-discounts","tag-events-2","tag-laili","tag-middle-eastern-cuisine","tag-restaurants-2","tag-santa-cruz","tag-santa-cruz-restaurant-week","tag-seafood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}