• Jessica Battilana at 7x7 gets the lowdown about the stay of execution for Miette Confiserie in Hayes Valley—the story of a business deal gone south between a small business and a chain bakery. [Bits & Bites]
• Get your date drunk and fed for free! Gift cards for Luna Park dinners are going for bargain prices ($50 cards for $25 each). [BrokeAss Gourmet]
• Jersey Shore’s Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino seems to be quite the cook, based on his meals in two recent episodes. [Food & Wine]
• Everyone from farmers’ marketers to street cart vendors may soon have credit card swipey things attached to their cell phones. [NYT]
• A 513-pound bluefin tuna was sold for $177,000 at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market. [WSJ]
• The widow of former Times food and wine writer R.W. “Johnny” Apple will auction off his massive wine collection. [WP]
• A Toronto man found 50 dead ants in his McDonald’s breakfast burrito. [Toronto Sun]