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Floodgates Open for New Noe Valley Restaurants; New Orleans’s Food Scene Now Bigger Than Pre-Katrina

• The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to lift the two-decade-old restrictions on new restaurants along 24th Street in Noe Valley. [Examiner]

• A handful of California winemakers are leading the charge of “natural” winemaking. [Oakland Tribune]

• Michael Bauer, back from vacation, brings word of the “chicken wars” in Kansas. [Between Meals]

Supperclub seeks a new general manager. [Tablehopper]

• There are now a few hundred more restaurants in New Orleans than there were before Hurricane Katrina. [NYT]

• Vietnamese restaurants serving modified Cajun cuisine are on the rise throughout the South and in California. [NYT]

• The Qsine restaurants on Celebrity Eclipse cruise ships are now equipped with iPads for ordering. [Travolution via Feast]

• Gordon Ramsay gave up at mile 20 of the London Marathon. [Telegraph]

• Opening a restaurant in a hotel or condo development is a great way for a young chef to bypass many of the traditional financing issues. [Time]

Floodgates Open for New Noe Valley Restaurants; New Orleans’s Food Scene