• A study commissioned by Christine Quinn found that the city’s food industry is going strong, showing an 11 percent increase in the number of food and beverage companies operating out of the city since 2008. [NYDN]
• Nourish Kitchen + Table, the new West Village restaurant, is introducing dinner service tonight. It’s open every day except for Sunday until 10 p.m. [Grub Street]
• Krescendo has a new “purple quail” pie with purple potatoes, guanciale, calabrese chili peppers, and mozzarella — and Grub hears it’s selling out nightly. [Grub Street]
• Maiden Lane is serving caviar and Champagne from 6 p.m. until closing time this Wednesday, August 14. Half-price bottles of Champagne and sparkling wine, as well as a selection of American paddlefish caviar, trout roe, and salmon roe, will be on offer in case you feel the need to treat yo’self. [Grub Street]
