McNally Loves Balthazar and Maria Bello; Imus Types Prank Chinese Restaurant
4/24/07 at 10:38 AM
Keith McNally talks about Balthazar, where the breakfast service is "absurdly busy" and his last meal would be "on the navel of the actress Maria Bello." [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
More radio morons in hot water: CBS suspends Elvis and JV for pranking a Chinese restaurant, asking for "shrimp flied lice," making dumb egg-roll jokes, and other old-time, racist vulgarities. [CBS News]
Spain’s El Bulli named top restaurant in the world again. No. 2? The Fat Duck in London. It’s a proud day for molecular gastronomy. [CNN]
Sometimes you can't get a table in Staten Island. [Staten Island Live via Gawker]
The food industry is lobbying the FDA to call cheap, vegetable oil-based confections “chocolate.” [Chow]
One hundred thousand pounds of E.coli-infected hamburger are being recalled; this on the heels of Friday's recall of 259,230 pounds of steak. [Nation's Restaurant News]

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