This Week in Food rounds up the week's food news, restaurants openings and closings, chef movements and upcoming food events in Toronto. Find us here every Friday morning.

OPENINGS & CLOSINGS

• Paulette's Original Donuts and Chicken is the delicious new concept from the same team behind Delica Kitchen. The Leslieville location at 913 Queen Street East is set to open mid-June.

Need someone to mow the lawn? Paint the fence? Help you lift that sofa up three flights of stairs? MyTaskRunner, a web site that launched at the beginning of May, might be able to help. Headquartered in Vaughan, this new spin on Craigslist is trying to make it easier to connect qualified people looking for work ("TaskRunners") with those who need their assistance.

I recently connected with founder Albert Vaisman who filled me in on what MyTaskRunner is up to.

So that's that, Josh Matlow's war on the war on street hockey died more or less immediately at the hands of city lawyers who are afraid repealing the bylaw could pave the way for injury lawsuits. I'll be out snatching sticks later tonight and I suggest you do the same. We can't have anarchy, people. Do you think it's safe to keep ignoring the "no hockey or ballgames" bylaw?

It seems like three chunks in a month is enough for the keepers of the Gardiner expressway - city crews began a month-long inspection yesterday to identify and safely remove any loose concrete. Some lanes of traffic and pedestrian walkways below the elevated highway could be closed if anything dangerous turns up. Should we be taking these incidents as a sign the nearly sixty-year-old yet "perfectly safe" road should be replaced?

Photo by by Anthony AA in the blogTO Flickr pool

Welcome to the land of billion dollar photo sharing-companies. Pinterest, the newest member to the billionaire's club, recently raised 100 million dollars in their latest round of funding. When you crunch the numbers, Pinterest is valued at nearly 1.5 billion dollars. In contrast, Kodak, the company that literally pioneered the photography revolution, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year. As Jerry Seinfeld would say, after his recent comedy stop at the Sony Centre in Toronto: it's a Bizzaro World out there.

With seemingly unlimited investor funding and mainstream media coverage, photo-sharing is the new hot topic at the water cooler. Enter Piccsy, the newest social network that helps people discover the images they love. Focused on solving the image discovery and fragmentation problem, Piccsy helps identify categories of interest that are important to users while customizing an image feed specifically catered to their preferences.

One day, many years from now, you'll be able to tell your kids you lived at a time when salad bowls were just $8.50. And then $9.50. Ah, the good old days.

But those says, indeed, are gone. Many disgruntled herbivores of late have stopped by their favourite vegan restaurant in search of a quick meal, only to find that the prices, again, have gone up. A salad or grain bowl at any of Urban Herbivore's three locations will now cost you $11 and change, plus an extra dollar for certain add-ins or substitutions (tempeh added to your salad for example, or quinoa instead of rice for your grain bowl). Such options used to be included in the price.