Food and dining news from around the web and the world…
* Don’t shoot. Some restaurants are banning food photography. [Business Insider]
* But if you insist on the point and click. Here are some tips for jerk-free restaurant food photography. [PopPhoto.com]
* Make no mistake. Or at least not these five mistakes that restaurant’s make with their websites. [SmallBizTrends.com]
* Map quest. An Apple Maps error is costing Portland restaurant Metrovino $50,000 in lost business. [CultofMac.com]
* Pay your bill, pal. You may be able to use PayPal the next time your restaurant check comes. [Columbus Dispatch]
* Fancy feast. The top trends from the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. [Mercury News]
* Feliz cumpleanos, Jaleo. The D.C. mainstay by Jose Andres turns 20. [Washington Blade]
* Shhhh! Here are some of New York’s most quiet restaurants. [Bloomberg]
* Holy mackerel. Top chefs in the U.K. are 86ing this overfished fish. [DailyMail]
* Dirt-not-so-cheap. At a Tokyo restaurant you can eat dirt, but it’ll cost you. [FoxNews]
* River City steps out of Bay Area’s shadow. The restaurant scene in Sacramento heats up. [Sacramento Bee]
* Free refills? This story of a man asking about free iced tea refills at Le Bernardin reminds me of the time a friend’s hayseed date tried to order a pitcher of margaritas when we were at the Mesa Grill. I can laugh about it now, but, at the time, I wanted to crawl under the table. [New York Times]
* From the ‘Moment of Zen’ files: Introducing Padma Leash Me hosting a canine version of Top Chef. [Grub Street NY]