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Is the Embarcadero the New Restaurant Row?; Mike Tyson Goes Vegan

• Bauer notes that the strip between the Ferry Building and Pier 39 has finally reached a critical mass of restaurants. [Between Meals]

• Joshua Grannell, a.k.a. drag queen Peaches Christ, discusses his/her favorite food haunts. [Bay Area Bites]

Café du Soleil appeals to the City to host live jazz nights. [Haighteration]

• Venturing for Korean BBQ in CoCo County. [Foodhoe]

• Mike Tyson is now a vegan, and has lost a bunch of weight because of it. [Daily Mail]

• John Kerry introduced a Senate bill that would lower the excise tax for small brewers. [Boston Globe]

• Walmart will donate 1.1 billion pounds of food to food banks nationwide.  [USA Today]

• Subway sent cease and desist letters to more than a dozen small stores nationwide, ordering them to stop using the term “footlong.”  [NYDN]

• Gulf Coast fishers and hoteliers fear that the effects of the oil spill could devastate their industries.  [USA Today]

Is the Embarcadero the New Restaurant Row?; Mike Tyson Goes Vegan