Sampler Platter: 20-cent tacos, beef in Guinness, Hong Kong cafes

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A midwinter’s Sampler Platter...

• Jez Hindmarsh, drummer for British shoegazer band Swervedriver (and soon-to-be cookbook author), offers his perfect simmer-all-day winter meal: beef in Guinness. The Hot Dish
• Face Cafe, a new Hong Kong-style coffee shop, replaces OK Cafe in Alhambra. Food GPS
• When the original Wahoo’s Fish Tacos in Costa Mesa reopens Feb. 22, it’ll offer 20-cent tacos to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. Fast Food Maven
• Food Network is looking for grillmasters with grandiose personalities to join Bobby Flay in Season 2 of ‘Grill It.’
• Profit plunges 72% at Kraft Foods. N.Y. Times
• Washington, D.C., council member urges trans fat ban. Washington Post

-- Elina Shatkin