• Voters in Moorestown, a notoriously “dry” town, approved a proposal to allow restaurants at the Moorestown Mall to sell alcohol, making way for Marc Vetri’s plans to open an Osteria-like restaurant there. [Inquirer]
• A vending machine at an Alabama convenience store dispenses meat. Now old-school butchers are really endangered. [Zagat Buzz]
• The cantaloupe scare that so far has killed 29 people has one affected person suing Wal-Mart for selling the tainted fruit. [Bloomberg]
• Restaurateurs are increasingly using Kickstarter and other crowd-funding methods to finance their ventures. [NYT]
• Trade publication Drinks International presents its list of the world’s 50 best bars. New York’s PDT leads the pack. [HuffPo]
• Big seafood-restaurant chain Landry’s has swallowed up slightly less big seafood chain McCormick & Schmick’s. [NRN]
• “Boar meat tastes like a cross between pork and lamb,” and you’ll probably be eating some soon. [NPR]
