• Restaurants with lively patios like Poe’s Kitchen at the Rattlesnake are not happy about the city’s recent crackdown on outdoor smoking, saying that enforcing the regulation could cost them business. [Herald]
• A new Ben & Jerry’s T ad makes a Vermont gay marriage joke. [Cantabrigia]
• A new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest finds that fast-casual restaurants like the Olive Garden are by far your least healthy dining option. [NYDN]
• As the fortunes of Swiss banks fall, the bankers’ appetite for Italian food has increased. [NYT]
