On tonight’s menu:

1. Morimoto earns three Bauer stars, plus Thermidor cocktails and giant pop-tarts (SF GATE)
2. Restaurants dishing up phony letter grades in wake of new sanitation policy (NY DAILY NEWS)
3. The World Testicle Cooking Championship (HUFFINGTON POST)
4. Popular food factory tour shuttered over terrorism concerns (TIMES ARGUS)
5. Jeffrey Steingarten Cooks Goat Sous-Vide, Disdains Brooklyn Boosterism (GRUB STREET)
6. The Modified Fish Fight (ATLANTIC)

1. We’ll Always Have Paris! Peripatetic, Poetic and Sweet – A Walking, Literary & Culinary Tour of Paris (BOOK PASSAGE)
2. The Five Best Things I Ate in Oaxaca Mexico (THE PAUPERED CHEF)
3. Five Tasteful U.S. Trips (BUDGET TRAVEL)
4. Ten Places to Eat Now in San Francisco (TABLEHOPPER)
5. World’s Weirdest Food Festivals – SLIDE SHOW (FOOD & WINE)
6. Disney: Epcot Center’s New Pizzeria, Via Napoli – VIDEO (SLICE)
7. Best Beer Museums in the World (GOT SAGA)
8. The 10 Best Lobster Shacks in Maine (TRAVEL & LEISURE)
9. La Tomatina / Buñol, Spain (FLYDIME/FLICKR)
10. 36 Hours in Sonoma (NY TIMES)
11. The Secret to Good Airline Food: Fly Alitalia (ATLANTIC)
12. Extreme Pig Outs: Meals That Will Blow Your Mind and Tip the Scale (TRAVEL CHANNEL)

res·tau·rant [res-ter-uhnt, -tuh-rahnt, -trahnt] – noun an establishment where meals are served to customers…

1. OpenTable Diners Reveal Their Top 50 Picks for Restaurants With the Most Scenic Views (MARKET WATCH)
2. European restaurant chain featuring pitch-dark dining to open in NYC (CANADIAN PRESS)
3. Suit accuses Providence restaurant owner of copying mob theme from friend’s Fla. cafe (PROJO.COM)
4. Tiny London Restaurant Polpetto Lures Celebrities, Foodies (BLOOMBERG)
5. Southern California restaurant patio with proposed doggie play area denied (OC REGISTER)
6. Restaurant chains, vending machines will have to post calories (LA TIMES)

Guilty Pleasures…

1. Claim Jumper Restaurant Settles Condom-In-My-Soup Lawsuit (LA WEEKLY)
2. Supermarket pervert given supervision order (KENT NEWS)
3. China makes arrests after latest melamine scare (DAIRY REPORTER)
4. Glee’s Naya Rivera Threw Dog Food And Eggs At Co-Star’s Car Before Keying It (RADAR ONLINE)
5. Remy Gonzalez of Cake Boss Arrested: Will Cake Boss Get Burned By BIL? (GATHER)
6. Man who bit Lewes supermarket worker was trying to practise ‘alternative lifestyle’ (THE ARGUS)

À la carte…

1. Online Coupons Get Smarter: Groupon, Rivals Add Personalized Bargains, Staff as Some Merchants Gripe (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
2. Sharing the Wealth at a Dumpster Divers’ Feast (NY TIMES)
3. Environmental Banned From Restaurant (SLASH FOOD)
4. First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition (DISCOVERY NEWS)
5. Ramsay Holdings Loss Almost Doubles at International Operations (BLOOMBERG)
6. ‘God of pickles’ Aichi shrine blesses veggies soaked in brine (JAPAN TIMES)