Grub Street

No corn, Cubans, or Courtney and Coco Cox at Café Habana today! Even though the restaurant's blog says that the side-by-side Habanas will be closed today and tomorrow "for our annual staff field trip to the beach. Vamos a la Playa!" the scene looks more like a grande wash-down, with every piece of furniture on the street being hosed and scrubbed. Speaking of pretty, sparkly things, isn't it kind of strange how they sell out all their celebrity clientele here?

First Starbucks added juice to its java empire earlier this year, and now Campbell Soup is buying juice and carrot company Bolthouse Farms, writes the Washington Post. Bolthouse's Earthbound Farm and Green Giant baby carrots are a popular healthy snack and the company also sells juices, which complements Campbell's existing V-8 line. The soup giant isn't the only big food biz going healthy: The Times has it that PepsiCo will start rolling out yogurt manufactured by German company Theo Müller. Wonder how that one will stack up in our next taste test? [WP, NYT]

Smithfield Foods — giant ham-business barons, friends of Paula Deen, reluctant dispatchers of gestation crates — will open its very own restaurant tomorrow near the company's Virginia headquarters. The menu's kids section is called "For the Little Piglets," which sounds about right. [Marketwatch]

As of tomorrow, Bedford Stuyvestant will no longer be a frozen-dessert desert. Noticing the area hadn’t had a proper ice cream parlor in more than a decade, local entrepreneur Garland Shields decided to found a cone-and-cup shop called Frozen Social just a few steps from the Franklin Avenue C stop. Starting this month, Frozen Social will offer organic and all-natural varieties of ice cream, yogurt, gelato, and flavored ice topped with fresh-cut fruit instead of the usual chocolate and caramel. The striking whitewashed parlor is "part of a growing trend of beautiful businesses in Bed-Stuy,” says Shields. After a soft opening preview tomorrow, the venue will fully open by the end of the month.

Frozen Social, 501 Franklin Ave. at Nostrand Ave., Bedford-Stuyvesant

We already brought you word of Cómodo, the Latin American restaurant Worth Kitchen supper-clubbers Felipe and Tamy Donnelly are opening in the former Salt space in Soho. Now we learn the project debuts July 16. As promised, Donnelly's lamb sliders served on pão de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) — a favorite from Worth Kitchens past — will be served; also notable-sounding are the hibiscus and queso fresco spring rolls; escolar tiradito with uni and mint-yogurt vinaigrette; and coffee-rubbed cochinita over a rice cake. But don't take our word for it — check out the menu below. Comodo will offer beer, wine, and sake cocktails (popular in Brazil) and will serve lunch and dinner daily.