Usain Bolt Celebrates With £80K Bottle of Champagne - Eater National

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What's ultrafast human being Usain Bolt up to now that he's won a bunch of gold medals at the London Olympics? Drinking a gigantic bottle of champagne priced at £80,000 (US $125,496), like you do. (Kind of makes that $3,000 cocktail another club was giving out to gold medalists seem like kids' stuff?) According to the AP, Bolt was celebrating at London club Movida with other Olympians when a Nebuchadnezzar of Armand de Brignac Champagne (AKA the Ace of Spades) was sent over.

Bolt and his pals apparently stayed til 6:00AM. Well, yeah, a Nebuchadnezzar is the equivalent of 20 bottles of champagne, and you probably need at least that long to work your way through the bottle.

· Usain Bolt Turns DJ to Celebrate Olympic Treble [AP via HuffPo]
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A Scene from National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A in Dallas

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Larry Farris and Tyler Savage, one of two couples who showed up to a Chick-fil-A protest in Dallas, surrounded by news camerasTwo days ago, on the Mike Huckabee-chosen Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, supporters of the Chicken Sandwich Chain Against Gay Marriage cause flooded locations across the country. Some carried signs; some burst out in choruses of "God Bless America." It was, according a recent CNN piece, a record sales day. Down here in Dallas, the downtown location was stuffed with an hour long line and extra security.

Which leads us to today's National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A. Our contributing photographer Stephen Masker was down at the location off Southwestern and Highway 75. Around lunchtime, Stephen reported there were only a two couples and a few TV cameras.

Stephen checked in with one couple, Larry Farris from North Dallas and Tyler Savage from Arlington, on why they were protesting:

Larry Farris and Tyler Savage protest at the National Kiss-In at Chick-Fil-A

Tyler Savage had this to say:

I just want everyone to know that I'm no longer going to spend my money here. Now that I found what they're doing with the money I've been giving them, 'cause I've been eating at Chick-Fil-A for a long time, I don't want to give any more money to something that bashes my rights.

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National List of "Hot Concepts" Includes Two Locally Based Companies, Del Frisco's Grille and Pie Five Pizza

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The foodservice industry trade publication Nation's Restaurant News recently named its Hot Concepts of 2012, which is a look at brands that "celebrate innovation, vitality and growth within the restaurant industry."

The annual list acts as a barometer of trendsetters, which are expected to experience significant growth in the near future.

The first company of note is the CoolHaus fleet of ice cream trucks based out of Culver City, California. They were at the Cedars Food Park this weekend and I would have never guessed they were a chain.

The concept is all-natural ice cream that comes in sometimes-outlandish flavors, like fried chicken and waffles or brown butter and candied bacon. The dense almost tennis-ball size scoops are then delicately pressed between cookies: potato chip & butterscotch, anyone? All of which goes for $5.50.

The CoolHaus truck fleet is nationwide and shows no sign of tapping the brakes.

Dallas-based Del Frisco's Grille is also on the Hot Concepts list. Observer food critic Scott Reitz took a close look at them shortly after they opened and wrote about a slightly tense "Does it look medium rare to you?" exchange with a waiter. Currently they have five restaurants total, including spots in New York City, Arizona, D.C., Atlanta and Dallas.

Del Frisco's Restaurant Group was originally a steakhouse concept, with the Double Eagle and Sullivan's Steakhouse brands in their portfolio. This more causal and bar-centric Grille seems to be playing well for them.

Next on the list of Hot Concepts is Pie Five Pizza Co. based in The Colony as part of Pizza Inn Holdings Inc. They now have six spots across DFW, and another set to open in a new complex at the University of Texas at Arlington this fall. The setup is like Subway; customers pick from toppings behind the counter and their pizza is made in front of them. Then, the pies are baked in two minutes and 20 seconds thanks to an all-electric oven with a catalytic converter. Ideally the entire process takes five minutes.

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