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Avid traveler that she is, local critic Patricia Unterman recently took a trip to Turkey, and when she came back she says she was "homesick" for Turkish food. She found, and subsequently turned us onto, the food at the new Troya Fillmore, specifically a few of the dishes prepared by "a little Turkish woman in a head scarf and apron in the partially open kitchen at the back, who looked like the women who cooked for [her] in their homes in small villages near Antakya and Gazientep." One of those dishes, manti, which are a Turkish version of ravioli in a creamy yogurt sauce, is a sure standout for us, and unlike anything we've ever tasted.

Chef Daniel Holzman, the former SPQR chef who high-tailed it out of S.F. three years ago to open The Meatball Shop in NYC, is returning with partner Michael Chernow to join former Meatball Shop chef Kyle Itani at Itani's new Oakland restaurant Hopscotch (1915 San Pablo Avenue). The trio will be doing a Meatball Shop pop-up on Monday, December 3, featuring a variety of meatballs, heroes, sides and cookies, and there are no reservations required. It runs from 5 p.m. to midnight, or until they run out of meatballs.

Several restaurant CEOs have suggested recently that since President Obama is keeping his job, their employees' jobs might be in danger. Owners of chains like Papa John's, Olive Garden, Denny's, and Applebee's say that because of the Affordable Care Act, they'll be forced to reduce employees' hours since they can't afford to provide more full-time workers with health insurance or pay the fines for leaving them uninsured. Online Obamacare supporters called for a boycott of the restaurants, and opponents argued that the law will hurt restaurant workers as well as all who turn to them for a cheap, greasy dinner that isn't served in a paper wrapper. However, the claim that the health-care law is worsening conditions for restaurant employees is dubious.

Start hoarding those Cupcakes: Hostess — the company that makes Twinkies, Cupcakes, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and all the other little plastic-wrapped cake-y things you begged your mom for when you were little — will shut down.