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Sampler Platter: Top 100 Wines of 2009, best late-night diner, best gay bar, Soda Pop’s sandwich shop opens this week, tofurky gravy soda

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The world’s grossest soda and manicured nails made to look like bacon are in today’s food news roundup.

• Main Street merchants want a crack at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Santa Monica Daily Press • Soda Pop’s sandwich shop to open this Wednesday on La Cienega at Beverly. La Brea Dining Japanese restaurant to open at Crescent Heights and West 3rd Street. Blackburn and Sweetzer • While the rest of the world tries to reduce its plastic use, Aussie winemaker Peter Yealands switches to plastic wine bottles. Stuff • Playboy names Original Pantry Cafe as a Top 10 Late-Night Diner • TripOut names the Abbey as Best Gay Bar in the World. Brand X • Nov. 23 is the New Yorker’s food issue with John Colapinto on the secrets of the Michelin guide, Calvin Trillin on poutine, Adam Gopnik on cookbooks, Mimi Sheraton on spit cakes; Evan Osnos on Beijing’s love of wine, Raffi Khatchadourian on the Givaudan flavor factory and more. • Jones makes tofurkey and gravy soda (read: carbonated vomit). Chicago Sun Times • Wine Spectator will announce its Top 100 Wines of 2009 on Wednesday. Members get a sneak peek today. • Prospectors set to drill for Shackleton’s booze in Antarctica. Metro • Meat manicure: bacon nail tips. Jezebel • All About Beer celebrates 30th anniversary edition: ‘Revolution!’ versus ‘What Revolution?’ • Elizabeth Hurley’s diet tips: vodka and one meal a day. Daily Mail • Yes, people do win McDonald’s Monopoly game. (Daily Finance) In other news, McDonald’s will open 1,000 new restaurants in 2010. CNNMoney.com

-- Elina Shatkin

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