Tidbits

• The Red Hook ballfields are back in action, and Eat for Victory was there to give us a report.
• Eater lists the James Beard Foundation Media Award winners, including the SF Chronicle which picked up the Best Newspaper Food Section and Leite's Culinaria for Best Website Focusing on Food, Beverage, Restaurant, or Nutrition. The remainder of the awards will be announced at tonight's gala.
• Top Chef season one winner Harold Dieterle officially opens his new spot, Perilla, to the general public today, but Top Chef blogger Jon got a special tasting dinner on Friday night.
• Park Slope gastropub Alchemy has a new chef, Paul Nanni, who has formerly worked with Marcus Sammuelson of Aquavit, and who brings with him some notable tweaks to the menu, like the addition of buttermilk-fried frog's legs and rabbit pot pie. Alchemy has also started serving weekend brunch featuring Guiness pancakes with caramelized bananas and a fried skate sandwich topped with tartar sauce infused with Minor Threat hot sauce from Wheelhouse Pickles.
• Of the top 100 grossing independent restaurants in the US, a few NYC establishments landed near the top. According to Papermag: "Tao grossed $26 million and came in at #4. Tavern on the Green is #2 ($38 million) and 21 had one of the highest average per person expenditures at $150.76." Junior's came out at #23.

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