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Lines Follow Ike’s Everywhere; Gulf Seafood Impacts Are Still Unknown

• The new Ike’s Place in Redwood Shores is in some sort of office complex where the constant lines became a problem, and now they’re only taking phone orders. [Eater]

• A few Bastille Day cocktail ideas. [Wine Enthusiast]

• Kauffman interviews avid CHOWhound and soon-to-be restaurateur Robert Lauriston about Locanda de Eva, opening next week in Berkeley. [SFoodie]

• W. Blake Grey provides a report from the Riesling Rendezvous in Seattle. [Grey Market Report]

• Two months after the Gulf oil spill, it’s still difficult to estimate how much it will impact the area’s seafood. [NYT]

• The United Kingdom may abolish its Food Standards Agency. [Serious Eats]

• Lisa “Hungry Girl” Lillien is one of the top names in diet marketing, partially because of her relationships with brands like General Mills and Quaker. [NYT]

• White House chef Sam Kass is now also the administration’s Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. [Obama Foodorama]

• Groups like Omnivore and Le Fooding hope to restore France’s utter dominance in the food world. [WSJ, Earlier]

• Domino’s is now offering a whole wheat lower-fat pizza for use in schools. [Dallas Observer]

• Though you won’t find them in bakeries, savory loaves called cake salé are tremendously popular among French home cooks. [NYT]

Lines Follow Ike’s Everywhere; Gulf Seafood Impacts Are Still Unknown