The Wednesday Wrap: Food News to Go

Knock Three Times: Author Jeff Bell chronicles the myriad issues diners with obsessive-compulsive disorder face when dining out at restaurants. [New York Times]

Chocolate-Dipped Space Needle?: Along with airplanes, coffee, dot-coms, and grunge, Seattle can now claim  fame for their award-winning chocolatiers. [Seattle PI]

TiVo Alert: Matt Lee and Ted Lee, the dynamic duo behind the James Beard and IACP award-winning The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook (also Amazon's Best Cookbook of 2006), make their Food Network debut this Friday night as they stop by "The Queen of Southern Cuisine" Paula Deen's Paula's Party to whip up their signature Chocolate Grits Ice Cream. [Food Network]

Wednesday Morning Quarterbacking: And you thought you were being adventurous with nachos and chili dogs? The Spotted Pig took over La Esquina for a Super Bowl party whose menu will immediately induce a foodie fever dream (a whole pig and a mariachi band!). Music was provided by two "local DJs" (read: Moby and Mark Ronson). [Down  By The Hipster via Grub Street]

Save the Date: You'll flip for flapjacks on Tuesday, February 12 as IHOP celebrates National Pancake Day from 7AM to 10PM with a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes (diners are encouraged to make a donation to local Children's Miracle Network programs) [Seattle PI]

Bruni Beat: It's three stars ("excellent") for New York City landmark Le Cirque. "At Le Cirque you will indeed eat too much food, of a kind that neither your physician nor your local Greenpeace representative would endorse, in a setting of deliberate pompousness, at a sometimes ludicrous expense." [New York Times]

--BTP