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• It's the tenth anniversary of Two-Buck Chuck! Fred Franzia says that sales of TJ's cheapest wine have helped increase the overall American wine market by 5 percent. [Press-Democrat, Shanken News]

• We may think we're big drinkers in this country, but according to some rankings by the World Health Organization, the U.S. doesn't even crack the top 50 in terms of per capita alcohol consumption. Still, Americans, on average, each drink 94 bottles of wine a year. [LiveScience]

• The "Sideways Effect," which boosted the prices and popularity of California Pinot Noir beginning with the movie's release in 2004, is finally abating; for the first time in seven years, Pinot prices sank. [Decanter]

AvroKO has redone the food and drinks menu at Madam Geneva with Naren Young (the brains behind the booze at The Dutch, Locanda Verde, and Saxon + Parole) at the helm of the South East Asia–inspired cocktail list, and a new menu of bar food by Brad Farmerie. The all-gin cocktail selection includes drinks like punch, served in antique glass bowls, accompanied by food like Forever Crisp chicken wings, Szechuan-style. Expect a new D.J. deck, too, featuring a musical line-up that includes Naren’s wife, Kimiko, a resident D.J. at “Sleep No More."

New Menu [PDF]

For the first time in twenty years, Maury Rubin of City Bakery (and Birdbath Green Bakery) is experimenting with his hot cocoa, using single-origin chocolate, which means, "the cocoa beans came from a single farm and farmer, which in the big, bad global chocolate world, is extremely rare." Called the Honduran Hot Chocolate, the drink, described as "sweet and rich and a little brutish ... a gorgeous deep/chocolate/red-umber," is at the store now. [City Bakery Daily]

Sour Patch-packaged weed is a real thing, which we learned about this week. Also real: McBaguettes, a Bon Rappetite cookbook, and a few other odd occurrences of note, which we've helpfully compiled in the James Weird awards, straight ahead.

When Mike D's wine-blogging career kicked off last year, it attracted some attention, not only because it was, you know, a wine blog from one of the Beastie Boys, but also because the MC's wine knowledge was surprisingly impressive. (His notes on a 2002 Henri Boillot Corton Charlemagne: "The color has budged from pale straw to slight gold, it is still not giving much away, like it was a few years ago".) But lately, D's wine blog has gone quiet. So when we saw him at a Fashion Week after-party for Proenza Schouler at Le Baron, we asked what was up.

Union Square has been abuzz with anticipation, and now Five Napkin Burger is ready to open its fourth New York City location at 150 East 14th Street on February 20. Expect the usual indulgences, plus three new burgers (avocado-ranch burger, barbecue burger, mushroom-blue-cheese burger). Also, on opening day, the restaurant will offer 14-cent wings to celebrate the 14th Street location.

Just last night, a downright euphoric Marcus Saumuelsson told Grub Street that Jeremy Lin had made a reservation at Red Rooster, but after reading this hilarious prank pulled by Deadspin — where they made faux reservations at New York's most impossible restaurants for Eli Manning and Jeremy Lin — we feel a little bit bad about it! But not bad enough to ignore how hilarious it is to see that Blue Hill will open a table for Manning, not Lin; ABC Kitchen and Del Posto give Manning preference, too; Nobu bends over backwards for either; and Brooklyn Fare categorically doesn't give a shit. [Deadspin]

It's that time again: GQ unveils its always-a-little-perplexing list of the country's best new restaurants. Taking the top spot this year: L.A.'s ink, helmed by Michael Voltaggio. The pick is certainly less confounding than last year's selection, Lincoln, which underwhelmed New York's critics. Surprisingly, if the scattered bylines are to be believed, GQ critic Alan Richman only picked five of the ten restaurants on this year's list, but it's nevertheless rounded out by picks that are both expected (like Grant Achatz's Next), and some that are less so.

Grimaldi's, DiFara, Keste ... with all the pizza philosophizing, many have forgotten about Gloria Pizza, the Flushing pizza legend that closed twenty years ago, which New Yorkers went absolutely nuts for. And now, it's back. Thomas Zaremba, whose father-in-law opened the original Gloria, is reopening the shop next month in a new location next to the Midway Theater in Forest Hills. Whether it will be as sublime as the slices of the sixties is still TBD, but Zaremba is just happy to be back on the map. [NYDN]