•The Brooklyn Paper’s food-related predictions for 2009 include a chocolate feud betweenJacques Torres Chocolateand Sunset Park upstart Tumbador Chocolate and big news from Saul Bolton of Smith Street’sSaul. [Brooklyn Paper]
• Frank Bruni’s year-end grab bag of final thoughts includes the complaint that portions are too small at bothEleven Madison ParkandDel Posto. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
•Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shopowner, Josh Konecky, didn’t set out to save the restaurant, but is “just trying to hold on to a piece of old New York—I think that’s important to keep something old in New York.” [Urbanite/amNY]
• Good news for budget-conscious consumers, bad news for dairy farmers: There’s a huge surplus of milk, resulting in drastically lowered prices. [NYT]
