What do you do if you're Martha Stewart and you're having dinner at Morandi and you just happen to spot designer Thom Browne walking down the street? You invite him to sit down have a few drinks, naturally. And, naturally, he immediately accepts. Then you take lots of photos of him so you have something to post on your blog! [Martha Stewart]

Keith McNally's new (and battered) baby Morandi recently started serving breakfast. We just got a copy of the menu. All the food looks pretty good but, come on, who wants to fucking try to pronounce "Uova mollette con 'scarpette'" before their $6 doppia espresso? Not me, and not without practice. Click through for the full menu. Also, Keith, if you're going to insist on calling things by their obscure Italian names, at least spell them correctly. Caffè corretto isn't spelled correctto. Still, if you're serving grappa at 8 in the morning, I'm not going to complain.

New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni one-stars Keith McNally's new Morandi with a review notable for its level and venomous prolixity. If this is how he describes something as good, it's a super thing that he doesn't have children, unless you believe that article about the inverse power of praising kids, in which case it's a "desperate inconveniently hokey insane uncomfortable odd hackneyed" thing that he doesn't have children. Let's break it all down by word choice!

It's only natural that a chef would take along her specialties when she alights for more lucrative footing and a new kitchen, so it's no surprise that Jody William's menu at Keith McNally's new Morandi bears some familiar items to that of her previous lieu d'emploi, Gusto. But, as many have noticed, the birthmarks line up a little too closely, and the distinguishing characteristics are freakily similar. Did Waverly Place's Morandi steal more than Gusto's chef? Is McNally a menu plagiarist?