• Spruce’s sister restaurant, the Village Pub in Woodside, is now serving brunch and it looks awesome! [Food Gal]
•: Restaurants get off on the wrong foot when they seat you in an abandoned corner of the room. [Between Meals/SF Gate]
• Happy hours of note: Boozy lectures with free tastings at Elixer, $3 margaritas at Palomino. [7x7]
• A twenty year study found that monkeys on a reduced-calorie diet lived longer and researchers think humans could as well. [NYP]
• It’s safe to eat raw cookie dough again! Nestle has reopened its factory after an E. coli scare. [WSJ]