• 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]