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Slagel is a familiar name in farm to table restaurant circles— the boar used by Scott Manley in the first Table, Donkey and Stick video was from Slagel. Now they've got a new project born in horror at the way farming is done by people unlike themselves. As they tell the story on their website:

Recently, a commercial chicken egg production facility came up for sale just a few miles from our small family farm in central Illinois. After expressing some interest in buying the facility, we were able arrange a tour. After seeing the facility in person, we were determined to find a way to buy the property and destroy the caged bird system so it could not get into the hands of another factory farm and continue to operate.

The recent food truck ordinance, and the games that have followed it coming up with spots for food trucks that violate the ordinance but appease well-connected downtown restaurateurs, had bad policy written all over them, being pretty clear violations of any sort of restraint of trade laws. And the great thing about bad policymaking is, first you pay government to create it, then you pay for lawyers to defend it. To no one's surprise, the Institute for Justice, a libertarian group which has fought food truck ordinances already in places like El Paso, will file a lawsuit against the City of Chicago on Wednesday. But more to the point, they made a video parodying the opening of Game of Thrones, apparently, to tell their story. (We wouldn't know, we stopped paying for HBO around the time they canceled Deadwood for that show about the guy with the big equipment. Which is not what the references to "Schnitzel King" in this video are about.) Anyway, as 4-minute videos on legal issues go, it's quite entertaining, check it out below.

Christian Fantoni, who opened Filini Bar and Restaurant in the Radisson Blu Hotel, has now joined Phil Stefani's 437 Rush. Fantoni, a native of Bergamo, Italy whose bio has an opening line no one can resist (he grew up in the castle where his father was chef to the prince), was recruited to Chicago from posts at places like Le Bernardin and Le Cirque by the troubled Pensiero in Evanston, but quickly departed for Luigi's Place in Aurora before coming back to the city for Filini, which Phil Vettel liked.