The NYPD releases a surveillance video of the De Marco’s gun battle. It’s difficult to make out, but very graphic and not a little disturbing. [WNBC]

Brace yourselves: McDonald’s has decreed that there will be no more Shamrock Shakes in NYC, although they’re still widely available elsewhere. What’s up with that? [NYDN]

The Smith and Wollensky Restaurant Group is enjoying a sudden bidding war for its acquisition, after having already accepted a good offer. [Crain’s]

Op-Ed: rats are gnarly, yes, but their presence in restaurants isn’t really that dangerous to human health. So get over it already. [NYT]
Related: Oh, Rats [Daily Intelligencer]

The nation’s first kosher Subway opens up in Midwood. [NYDN]

The former owner of Wolf’s Delicatessen and the Celebrity Deli is sentenced for several highly ingenious kinds of tax evasion. [NYP]

The latest trend: small desserts are appearing on menus as their own inexpensive side dishes. Diner’s Journal ponders the significance. [Diner’s Journal / NYT]

In part three of Serious Eats’ series on Jeffrey Steingarten’s hiring of Paul Liebrandt as a personal chef, the young whiz whips up some lasagna from the pasta in made in part two. [Serious Eats]

Banana company Chiquita is fined $25 million for paying protection money in Colombia to both right- and left-wing terrorists. Not surprisingly, they're not doing business in Colombia anymore. [Newsday]

SLA still serious about outlawing bottle service in New York nightclubs. [Washington Post]