Eating & Drinking: Tuesday Edition
• Is Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8 about to broke? That's what some former staffers claim, who say they haven't been paid in weeks now. [Gawker]
• Ward III, a new "saloon" by the team involved with Macao, The Odeon, and Grace—and decorated with Wakiya cast-offs—opens on Friday. [Thrillist]
• A roundup of spots that have closed in recent days. [Eater]
• The feud between Mr. Chow and Philippe is heating up, it seems. [GS]
• Raines Law Room has opened a "clandestine garden," not that anything can be very clandestine when it appears on Vogue's website. [Vogue]
• Michael Huynh has another East Village Baoguette planned. [EVGrieve]
• Wolfgang Puck's latest, quasi-food related venture: He plans to take control of the top-level domain .food and then sell off the Internet addresses to chefs and restaurateurs. Sounds, uh, interesting. [WSJ/Speakeasy]
• Sketches of what Oceana will look like when it relocates. [GS]
• An interview with chef (and now "sausage king") Daniel Boulud. [TONY]
• A "quick take" on Day 1 at the Standard Grill yesterday. [Zagat]
• A look at Piccola Cucina, which opened in Soho on Friday. [GS]
• The Daily News has a big list of NYC celebrity favorites. Suspend disbelief as Michael Bloomberg explains how he can't live without Nathan's. [NYDN]