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Get Your $95 Beer in Brooklyn; Molecular Gastronomy Becoming More Expensive?

The Modern’s wine list now has prices in euros, as well as dollars, but they don’t accept the foreign currency…yet. [Dr. Vino]

• Brooklyn’s Beer Table sells seventeen-ounce bottles of a rare Italian beer for $95 a pop. [NYDN]

• Fast-food chains around the country don’t need to worry about protecting their cash registers from burglars, since it’s the fryer grease they’re after these days. [NYT]

• Dow Chemical prices are going up 20 percent. Will the molecular gastronomists of the world have to adjust their prices accordingly? [Life Vicarious]

• After San Domenico closes in June, it will reopen either in January, March, or April of 2009. [Forked/GQ]

• It’s a double free-food day in midtown, with both Golden Krust and Pret a Manger offering complementary snacks. [Midtown Lunch]

Get Your $95 Beer in Brooklyn; Molecular Gastronomy Becoming More Expensive?