• Diamond Lil, that bustaurant we talked up earlier, is almost finally ready, and the Free Range Dining team will be serving out of it at the Donkey & Goat release party on 9/11. [Eater, Earlier]
• Mission grocers deal with the scourge of fruit theft. [Mission Local]
• What those trapped Chilean miners are eating – hint: no beans. [Eatocracy]
• Downtown Phoenix restaurants are hurting, with convention business slow after the passage of that immigration law. [AZ Central]
• A very tiny corkscrew for your keychain. [CHOW]
• Though cancer robbed Roger Ebert of his lower jaw, rendering him unable to eat, he still cooks and he’s recently developed a skill for food writing. [NYT]
• Burger King may go up for sale. [WSJ]
• As mixology becomes ever more sophisticated, bartenders are increasingly interested in protecting their intellectual property. [The Atlantic]
• McDonald’s plans to open 45 new stores in India this year. [WSJ]
• Vita Coco coconut water is partnering with Jet Blue on a new promotional campaign. [NYP]
• A judge ordered Indonesia’s Buddha Bar to close because local Buddhists were upset by the name. [Reuters]