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A lunchtime fire broke out in the building that houses Kokkari about an hour ago. An initial report from SF Weekly states that neither diners in the restaurant nor the cooks in the kitchen knew that anything was wrong until fire trucks appeared on the scene, and it's unclear if this was some kind of chimney fire or what. Smoke was visible outside the building. About 150 people were cleared out of the restaurant and the fire was extinguished within 30 minutes. Investigators are still looking into the cause. No word if Nancy Pelosi or Willie Brown were there at the time, but if he was, we're sure he'll blog about it. [SF Weekly] Update: The Scoop confirms there was no damage to the restaurant itself, however the restaurant remains closed pending an OK from the fire department.

Okay, real quick: Bill Wisth, a 6-foot, 6-inch man who weighs 350 pounds, went to an all-you-can-eat fish joint in Wisconsin, ate a dozen servings of fried fish, then got very, very upset when the restaurant claimed they were about to run out of fish for the night, so they gave him eight more pieces to go and sent him on his way. But it wasn't enough for this greedy glutton. He called the police on the restaurant and, according to CNN, "plans to picket the restaurant every Sunday until something changes." Yes, as others point out, it's like that Simpsons episode where Homer does pretty much the same thing. So congratulations, Bill Wisth, you've made your point while at the same time becoming a cartoonish symbol of America's ever-growing obesity epidemic. We just hope for his sake he doesn't plan on driving to the picket line each week! [CNN via KLTV]

A guerrilla artist, or group of them, whom Muni Diaries has dubbed Muni Adbusters, appear to be on a campaign to put up some fake, printed ads aboard Muni busses and metro cars. So far we've seen documentation of two — the first being this ad (semi-NSFW) for, ahem, a new variety of Tums. Today, the culprits bring us an ad mocking San Francisco's most beloved temple of bread and morning buns, Tartine. See the full size photo below.

Let's put our hands together and offer a round of welcoming applause to the Vegas Strip steak, a "new" cut of beef which today joins the hallowed ranks of other such butchery innovations as the Delmonico, the Tomahawk, cube steak, minute steak, the Newport, the flat iron, and the Denver steak.