• Katy Perry is the latest celebrity to fall prey to "food poisoning." Do these stars actually think people believe this excuse after watching Country Strong? • Although “we are not going to be able to just eat our way out of the invasive species problem,” per one scientist, it's not exactly a terrible idea to get in the habit of consuming these species. • If you ... more.

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, all dressed up.Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Couples! They're everywhere. For proof, look no further than Sant Ambroeus, which hosted at least two celebrity lunch dates this week. Midtown witnessed its share of romance as well, particularly of the Bieber variety. But, unsurprisingly, beach-side canoodling was especially popular this week, as pretty much e... more.

Chelsea: Co. is now offering delivery service for $20 and up orders from 22nd Street to 26th Street between Eight and Tenth Avenues. Hours of delivery are Monday through Friday from 5 to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 5 to 9 p.m. Chinatown:Tired of getting lost while looking for Chinatown's abundance of restaurants? You guessed it: There's an app for that. Financial District: This week, Toloache Taq... more.

Photo: Courtesy Joel R. Johnson, Deadbait Putnam's, at 419 Myrtle Avenue and the corner of Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill, will open in a week or so. The restaurant has been described as a "gastropub" at Community Board 2 meetings, and with a reported 100 seats plus another 70 patio spots, it's definitely a gastro-juggernaut. Renovations began late last year, and revealed cast-iron columns and ex... more.

• Gawker says the Heidi Montag- and Ashley Dupré-starring Famous Food is a "train wreck." Sounds similar to Vulture's first reaction! • Some eccentric café owners in England are selling their collection of sandwich crusts and other crumbs left behind by famous people. • House Republicans are not siding with the Obama administration's efforts to limit junk-food adver... more.

It's 4 p.m., and that means it's time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation. (As always, we make the calls but don't guarantee the results.) Today: French Accent. Adour Alain Ducasse (Menu) 212-710-2277 Two for eight? No Best available: 9 p.m. Boulud Sud (Menu) 212-595-1313 Two for eig... more.

Chopsticks' exterior; a shark vs. mecha-crab drawing posted outside. File under noticed in K-Town: Here, we have a soon-to-open restaurant called Chopsticks Bar & Lounge, adorned with a simple drawing that illustrates its interior workings. It may be a bit hard to make out the details, but from the looks of it, this restaurant will specialize in allowing its customers to pilot an enormous mecha-c... more.

Photo: Roxanne Behr/New York Magazine Restaurant rumors often spontaneously combust, a lot like a little tindersticks tossed into a handmade, artisanal wood-fired oven that blisters and chars so many irregularly shaped but beautiful craft pizzas, which are then finished with paper-thin slices of prosciutto made from heritage-breed pigs. Case in point: The DIY food revolutionaries at Roberta's in ... more.

We've never plugged headphones into an orange, but we're guessing the end result wouldn't be colored plastic balls shooting out of our living room speakers. But that's the kind of thing that happens in Synesthesia, a short film from commercial director Terri Timely. It doesn't make any sense, but it's still cool-looking. Plus, it's late on a Friday afternoon. Enjoy! ... more.

Cheese slicing returns to Greenmarkets.Photo: Courtesy of Artisanal Premium Cheese A few weeks ago, Grub Street broke the story that Greenmarket vendors were getting cracked down on for cutting cheese. As you'll recall, the Department of Agriculture considered it "processing" under their regulations, the same rules, rather unfairly, that govern grocery stores and delis. Well, today the Daily News... more.

Photo: Getty Images To celebrate Bastille Day, recently launched Gilt Taste is bringing in New York's unofficial ambassador of all food that's French: Daniel Boulud. The chef will serve as "guest curator," and contribute stories, videos, and recipes. And, this being Gilt, there will be themed merchandise sales, too. What kind of merch, you ask? Quail and spices on Monday, Bastille Day party packa... more.

Photo: Courtesy of Artisanal Premium Cheese Jonathan White, who makes cheese at Bobolink dairy in New Jersey, recently informed his newsletter subscribers that "the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets has suddenly decreed that cheeses can no longer be cut and wrapped at farmer's market stands ... we have no choice but to comply with the law ... the cheeses will now be secreted away in paper... more.

• The latest battered sensation to inspire awe and wonder? Deep-fried Kool-Aid balls. What will they fry next?! • Could the recent E. coli epidemic and other food outbreaks be prevented if we just irradiated the hell out of everything? Why don't we? The answer dates back to the Cold War era. • An upcoming NIH study might shed even more light on the question of whether cutting ... more.

Pit Stop's backyard now belongs to 5 Burro.Photo: Patrick Siggins Marla Cornejo, who owns 5 Burro Cafe along with her husband, Jorge, confirms that the Forest Hills favorite will open a location in Red Hook at 127 Columbia Street, just a few blocks from Calexico. Construction will begin in early March, and in April she hopes to open a location that closely resembles the Queens original, right dow... more.

Photo: Courtesy Georg Pedersen / Shoe Town to Brew Town Jimmy Carbone, creator of the Good Beer Seal and proprietor of Jimmy's 43, is helming a brand-new beer think tank that will aim to pair off aspiring brewmasters with green builders and designers. After looking at the post-industrial skyline of his Haverhill, Massachusetts, hometown — a place where one tenth of America's shoes were prod... more.

Photo: Patrick Siggins Carroll Gardens' Mason-jar-margaritas and fajitas spot 5 Burro Cafe, the just barely one-year-old outpost of the Forest Hills original, has closed for good, says a worker at the restaurant. Yesterday the restaurant's awning was removed; two weeks ago, 5 Burro had been flagged with a number of critical violations by the Health Department, yet allegedly stayed open. Seems to ... more.

Insert gun here.Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures While Ohio is making a point to let its residents hit bars while packing heat, the city of Newark just passed an ordinance that makes it mandatory for restaurants to put armed guards on duty from 9 p.m. until closing. The move is a response to the shooting of police officer William Johnson, who was killed while waiting to buy a slice of pizza. Only res... more.

• Another round of shots! In Ohio, it's now okay to bring a concealed weapon into a bar — as long as you abstain from drinking. • Speaking of potentially lethal things mixing with alcohol, booze is increasingly being sold at fast-food restaurants. • Thanks to a bumper corn crop, food prices might actually go down. • Meet the U.K.'s newest "curry king," a chef from ... more.

Photo: iStockphoto The other week, we wondered aloud if the city had turned into a nanny state: food trucks, porn stores, pub crawls, and public cheese-cutting (jokes in the comments, please) are all endangered here in NYC. And yet, out in the rest of the country, companies are being forced to tone down their junk-food advertising to kids. And now Republicans are saying that the new guidelines &m... more.

Say good-bye to this?Photo: Getty Images Already this week we've brought you damning news about food trucks, cheese-cutting, and porn stores, and now it seems the latest endangered New York institution is the pub crawl. DNA Info reports that one item on the docket at a Community Board 6 meeting last night was a proposed ban on such binge-drinking jaunts in the area, which covers 14th through 69t... more.