This Week's Best Food Stories & News

We get it, you're busy. We're swamped, too—busy combing the Internet to keep you in the loop amid this fast-moving world, that is. Head into the weekend with these articles, food-related deep dives and Tasting Table reads stored away as dinner party conversation fodder.

• The restaurant industry has (finally) reached its "Harvey Weinstein moment."

• Ever wonder how the Michelin Guide actually chooses its restaurants?

• Is this NYC's worst new restaurant? Eater critic Ryan Sutton seems to think so, in what might be his most, ahem, honest review yet.

• Meanwhile, NYC's most iconic restaurants are closing left and right.

• You've never seen Julia Child like this before.

• You couldn't have picked a worse country for a butter shortage to happen. 

• L.A. might not have the Michelin Guide, but the city does have something even better: LA Times critic Jonathan Gold's annual 101 Best Restaurants list.

• Time answers man's most contentious debate of all: How old is too old to trick or treat?

• What's better than getting the whole row to yourself? Getting the whole plane to yourself.

• Why John Besh stepped down from his restaurant group—and ignited an industry firestorm. 

• San Francisco's Michelin Guide is finally here, and the city officially has more stars than New York.