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Beverly Hills: Caulfield's Bar and Dining Room launched a new brunch menu this weekend, with breakfast risotto, rabbit terrine, and wagyu beef hash, among the dishes. [GS]
Canoga Park: Sierra's, an 80-year-old institution for Mexican food, closed this week, along with its neighboring burrito spot. Owners cite the land value as the principal reason for the closure. [Daily News]
Citywide: Food GPS picks ten of its favorite pork dishes from 2012. [Food GPS]
Downtown: The Flying Pig Cafe is opening a new location at the Figat7th complex, with a new concept called Pizza Studio coming close by. [Eater]
--Hollywood's Ikemen Ramen will open its second location in Downtown later this month. [Eater]
Hollywood: David Reiss' Little Fork is opening Friday, with former Fraiche chef Jason Travi in the kitchen overseeing the kitchen. [GS]

Hot diggity Frappuccino! What, if anything, does it say about the state of the collective American workplace that Starbucks ranks No. 1 on a list of last year's most popular expensed restaurants? There were 20,084 receipts for things like lattes and babyccinos filed with the expense-management company Certify between January and November, Bucks reports. “They’re not taking clients there," says Certify executive Bob Neveu. "It’s an individual running between planes, grabbing something quick.” Neveu says McDonald's, Subway, Panera Bread, and Burger King round out the top five, and while there aren't any real surprises here, does this mean that more and more "meals" are being consumed at Starbucks? A "night menu" of bacon-wrapped dates, truffle mac and cheese, and chocolate fondue suddenly doesn't sound like such a wacky idea after all. [Bucks/NYT, Earlier]

The foie gras ban that roiled California last July is turning into a boon for Nevada. The Reno Gazette hones in on the story of Napa Valley's Laurel Pine, founder of gourmet goods vendor Mirepoix USA, which carries more than 40 foie-based products. Pine relocated her business to Reno last year and says that business is booming, with an initial surge of Bay Area residents traveling to enjoy the verboten ingredient at Reno restaurants followed by an increased holiday demand. The owner says that 25% of her clients come from California. "People are very happy to come over here and have it," Pine says, noting that some diners are coming to try it for the first time, simply after learning about the ingredient through the ban. Now she's hoping to entice local restaurants into upping their orders, with designs on Reno becoming a city-wide speakeasy for all Californians who are denied the right to engorged goose and duck liver.

On December 31, Farid Zadi, the skilled French-Algerian chef behind Ecole de Cuisine cooking school, split up with Spanish Fly Gastropub, the Koreatown restaurant he opened alongside his wife in July after closing his Culver City Mediterranean menu concept, Cafe Livre et le Marche. According to the chef, the split wasn't 100% peaceful, stemming from creative differences with one of his three partners in the venture.