{"id":2759,"date":"2017-04-22T22:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:13:26","slug":"the-federal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/the-federal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal is lucky number three for Chef James Diack. Modelled on an old-fashioned New York style deli; The Federal is located in Melville\u2019s bustling Seventh Street and entices diners with the promise of home-made hot dogs, all-day waffles and the ever sought-after pumpkin pie. The dishes are reminiscent of those often found in old-school New York delis \u2013 a traditional brisket sandwich on homemade bread, farm-style hot dogs with beer-battered onion rings, fried chicken and some decadent dessert pies.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal is located on the corner of Second Avenue and Seventh Street Melville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFederalJHB\">Twitter<\/a>] \u00a0 \u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheFederaljhb\/\">Facebook<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The-Federal-Interior-Detail-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The-Federal-Interior-Detail-4.jpg 950w, 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https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The-Federal-Southern-fried-chicken-served-with-cheese-fries-3-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[wpgmza id=&#8221;40&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Directions to The Federal<\/strong><br \/>\n6 7th Street<br \/>\nMelville<br \/>\nJohannesburg<br \/>\n2109<br \/>\n010 900 4876<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal is lucky number three for Chef James Diack. Modelled on an old-fashioned New York style deli; The Federal is located in Melville\u2019s bustling Seventh Street and entices diners with the promise of home-made hot dogs, all-day waffles and the ever sought-after pumpkin pie. The dishes are reminiscent of those often found in old-school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[238,529,253,525,236,526,249,527,312,528],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-burger-restaurants-johannesburg","tag-burger-restaurants-melville","tag-grill-restaurants-joahnnesburg","tag-grill-restaurants-melville","tag-healthy-meals-johannesburg-restaurants","tag-healthy-meals-melville-restaurants","tag-hotdog-restaurants-johannesburg","tag-hotdog-restaurants-melville","tag-steak-restaurants-johannesburg","tag-steak-restaurants-melville"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}