MenuPages Launches iPhone App
Gizmodo reports that MenuPages has launched a new iPhone app.
According to Gizmodo, restaurant pages can be pulled up by your current location, and reservations are available for select restaurants via an affiliation with OpenTable.
The app is free of charge.
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Food Truck Corner: Was It All Just a Dream?
Remember yesterday's story on the launching of an outdoor food court of sorts in Southern California? Word now comes of some bad news for the gourmet food trucks and their denizens.
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Robuchon Coming to San Francisco?
Anonymous sources tell the San Francisco Chronicle that superstar French chef Joel Robuchon is talking to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel about opening a restaurant in San Francisco.Michelin Announces 2010 New York City Restaurant Ratings
Michelin announced its 2010 list of the best restaurants in New York City in an email press release this morning. The official guide will go on sale tomorrow.
Below are the listings, organized by the number of stars ("N" denotes new stars):
Eat Like Harry Potter
Did you know that a Harry Potter theme park is coming to Orlando, Florida?
The website for the park (The Wizarding World of Harry Potter) offers a glimpse of the future attractions, which will include recreations of the Hog’s Head and Three Broomsticks pubs from the Harry Potter books. There's not much more information to glean (except for the rendering of Three Broomsticks pictured here), but Nation's Restaurant News reports the menus will feature traditional British fare and drinks, and, yes, butterbeer will be served (pumpkin juice, too).
The theme park is set to open in spring 2010.
Union Square Cafe Loses a Star
Outgoing New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni had downgraded Union Square Cafe from three stars to two.
Vile Eats
From the McGriddle to the Volcano Taco, the "most vile looking fast food menu items of all time.
Banh Mi Bliss Continues
A Robert Sietsema gem of an article: "The best sandwich at An Choi, though, isn't the regulation banh mi, but actually an invented variation called "banh mi thit heo quay" ($8), featuring roasted pork belly that alternates layers of garnet meat and crisp fat. Never has a banh mi been so thoroughly lubricated."
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