• Hipster Thai restaurant Sticky Rice has been temporarily closed by the DPH for mouse-related reasons. [CBN]
• Start stockpiling the booze: a new Senate proposal could raise the tax on beer 145 percent and wine 233 percent. [NYP]
• A new London restaurant uses an iPhone-like digital ordering system that eliminates the need for waiters. [Chow]
• Daniel Carasso, who as president of Dannon helped create yogurt’s worldwide popularity, has died at 103. [NYT]
• Fans of the very au courant green wild watercress, beware! If it grows in polluted waters, it can cause a nasty liver ailment. [WSJ]
