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Jamie Lauren Jumps Vodvil’s Sinking Ship; Gordon Ramsay Opening New Concept in Vegas

• Peripatetic Top Chef-vet Jamie Lauren has bounced (AGAIN) from the sinking ship that is Vodvil for a new restaurant named Wolfslair that would probably piss us off if we were Craig Thornton (we’re not). [Eater]

• The FDA has finally put a restriction on the use of one antibiotic, among the many that fatten cows and weaken people. [LAT]

• Gordon Ramsay is taking a page from Laurent Tourondel’s playbook and opening Gordon Ramsay Steak in The Paris Hotel in Vegas. Funny because it’s true. [Caterer Search]

• The Humane Society has become an investor in the private equity firm that owns Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. Keeping your enemies close? [HuffPo]

• Tasting Kitchen chef Casey Lane is opening The Parish in Downtown’s former Cafe Angelique space. Expect an opening towards spring. [Eater]

• Javier Cabral picks his nine favorite burritos in L.A. Well, one of them is a middling gabacho burrito with shredded lettuce on Venice’s “Rose St.,” but it still somehow makes the cut. [Squid Ink]

• Union Cattle, AKA the other place drunktards go to slobber over girls bouncing on mechanical bulls, is closing (and hopefully fumigating before it turns into Abigaile). [Squid Ink]

• “Flex-casual” is an increasingly popular concept in the chain-restaurant industry: counter service by day, full service by night. [NRN]

• NPR’s food blog The Salt has some helpful suggestions for what to do with Twinkies, including wearing them or using them as a flotation device. [Salt/NPR]

• Behold the insidious truth behind why your grandma pilfers sugar packets. [Eatocracy/CNN]

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