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The 85-year-old restaurant critic who earnestly assessed a Grand Forks, N.D. Olive Garden restaurant as “impressive” could soon have a lot more on her plate: Marilyn Hagerty is in talks with Anthony Bourdain for a book deal.

Shares of restaurant reservation service OpenTable are trading higher Tuesday afternoon on better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter. The company posted Q4 revenue of $37.2 million, up 21% from a year ago, and ahead of the Street at $36.8 million. Non-GAAP profits of 37 cents a share topped the Street consensus at 30 cents. The ...

Australian police were looking for the owner of a suitcase "full of money" that was left at a restaurant on Tuesday. Ten Network television reported the luggage found at Cafe Marco in the Burwood district of Sydney contained about 1 million Australian dollars ($1 million) in $50 notes.

If you’re headed to this weekend’s Taste of DC, make sure you bring your appetite. Dozens of Washington’s poshest restaurants are pulling out their best fare for the three-day festival.

Google Inc. announced Thursday that it has acquired Zagat Survey LLC, the restaurant review and ratings service that is a go-to source for foodies everywhere.

The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by a third from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas stations and pharmacies increasingly joined the growing entitlement program. Now, restaurants, which typically have not participated in the program, are lobbying for a piece of the action. Louisville-based Yum! Brands, whose restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver's and Pizza Hut, is trying to get restaurants more involved, federal lobbying records show.

More than 1,000 McDonald's restaurants in Britain will begin displaying the calorie count of each fast food item on their menus, as part of a government-led program to fight obesity.

A Chinese delicacy may soon disappear from California restaurants if a bill to ban the sale of shark fins makes it through the state Senate.

Higher food prices drag on burrito chain's profits.

Beginning today, kids will find some cool new choices on their restaurant menus choices that will make their parents happy, too.