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

1. Steak ‘n Shake server receives an over 7000% tip – VIDEO (YAHOO!)
2. Celebrities love their Oyster Bar: Celebrities from around the globe (including 007) have dined at the famed Grand Central eatery, which turned 100 (NY POST)
3. Restaurant gives up foie gras fight (DAILY PILOT)
4. SPAGO BOOM! Busted Skylight Panel Drops Glass On Lunch (TMZ)
5. 200 sickened after dining at Vegas restaurant (YAHOO!)
6. Restaurant menu psychology: tricks to make us order more (GUARDIAN)

DO YOU PLAN your vacations around food? If so, you’re a culinary tourist — and these links are for you!

1. Swallow Magazine’s James Casey on the Mexico City Issue (EATER)
2. Edible Excursions: Tastes of Oakland’s Temescal (BEYOND THE PLATE)
3. Breakthroughs with Martin Sheen Presenting New Report on Culinary Tourism (DIGITAL JOURNAL)
4. A Guide to Spain’s Seven Michelin Three Star Restaurants (EATER)
5. Eight Rules to Live When Traveling to Eat (FOOD REPUBLIC)
6. Where to Go in London (VANITY FAIR)

On tonight’s menu…

1. Can This Taco Save America? (THE DAILY BEAST)
2. Lindt loses German case over Easter bunny trademark (REUTERS)
3. U.N. Agency Suspends Food Aid in Gaza After Protesters Break Into Its Compound (NY TIMES)
4. Food Workers Fired as Mass. Students Denied Lunch (ABC NEWS)
5. Food’s “Lifetime Achievement Oscar” – James Beard Foundation Honors 5 Classic Restaurants (FORBES)
6. McDonald’s strike: Fast-food workers want to double wages (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR)

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

1. Rescue Effort for Tujague’s, a New Orleans Mainstay
   (NY TIMES)
2. Chez Panisse “Service Charge” Not What Many Customers Believe It To Be (CBS LOCAL)
3. The 10 Best And Worst Celebrities To Wait On In Restaurants (CRUSHABLE)
4. Noma’s Co-Owner Thinks Bolivian Food Is the Next Big Thing (BLOOMBERG)
5. When a Restaurant Screws You (VILLAGE VOICE)
6. Kitchen nightmare: Owner of a popular catering company sued after abusing and calling her loyal employees ‘whores’ and ‘dirty Mexicans’ (DAILY MAIL)

Video clips featuring culinary subject matter: your favorite chefs, the latest restaurant openings, food product releases and more!

1. The Traveler’s Republic of Tofu: Perennial Plate (VIMEO)
2. How to Order Chinese Food in Restaurants (FOOD PARADISE)
3. Eating Goats to Save Them and Treating Bones Like the Gold of an Animal (SERIOUS EATS)
4. Look, A Gorgeous Film About Coffee! (FOOD REPUBLIC)
5. Family Dinner with Chris Cosentino: Pork You (YOUTUBE)
6. How Cesare Casella, executive chef at Salumeria Rosi, makes sausage (NEW YORKER)