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Anna Roth at the Weekly gives a first review to Divisadero wine bar Wine Kitchen, which opened back in January. She finds a few things to like, especially the wine selection, the gnocchi dish, and the orange-chocolate pudding. But she finds the crowd a bit tiresome and bougie, and the space itself "strangely soulless." [SF Weekly]

We caught sight of a new ownership notice at 2223 Market Street back in March, but it turns out there was more to the story. Pesce (2227 Polk Street), the popular Russian Hill Venetian restaurant that opened in 2002, is actually going to relocate to the space in the coming months, as the Scoop reports. Pesce marked the first partnership between restaurateur Adriano Paganini and chef Ruggero Gadaldi, who have gone on to open the very successful family of restaurants that includes Beretta, Delarosa, and Starbelly. And this is terrific news for the Castro, given the widespread vacancies that have plagued the neighborhood for the last year, despite an uptick in the economy.

When Virginia Maiden woke up on Tuesday, she realized that someone had stolen her 1995 Toyota 4-Runner. Shit. Maiden found a ride to her job at the McDonald’s in Kennewick, Washington, and while staffing the drive-thru, she noticed that a customer was cruising by in what looked exactly like her car. But what are the chances? When she saw her McDonald's visor, which she had proudly hung from her rearview mirror (give this woman employee of the month!), Maiden realized that she was serving the criminal. Maiden acted quickly by telling the 22-year-old female thief that the ice-cream machine needed to be fixed and that she needed to pull up to the next window to wait. The cops arrived in time to arrest the car burglar in the McDonald's parking lot. And that's how it's done. [ABC News via Gawker]

This week, Oscar Mayer introduced a new line of hot dogs, one of which has bacon mixed into the filling, which immediately called to mind what we thought was a San Francisco innovation by 4505 Meats: the bacon-studded hot dog. Grub Street reached out to 4505 butcher Ryan Farr to gauge his reaction, and while he's not absolutely certain that he was the first person in history to think of putting bacon into a hot dog, he thought of the idea on his own a few years ago, and he's not too upset that the hot-dog behemoth has copied him. "I guess I'm flattered," he says.