Restaurants know more about you than you think. [New York Times]

Chefs are the new diplomats. [Post]

More details on Rogue 24 chef R.J. Cooper‘s Mosaic District restaurant [Washingtonian]

Eater DC editor Amy McKeever heads to Eater National. [Eater]

Liquor license suspension at Atomic Billiards in Cleveland Park [PoP]

President Barack Obama gives White House beer to Virginia firefighters. [Obama Foodorama]

Behold! A 2,014 pound hamburger [Zagat]

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