Mr. Crepe is serving Belgian waffles again.

Jeff Egnaczyk reports on a year without drinking a single drop of soda:

... The side effect of all of this is that eating more healthy in one aspect of your diet pushes you to do the same in others. For one, water might go well with meals but it doesn't even compare to soda and a bag of chips and dip. So I don't eat chips and dip as much. Also, the more you eat healthy the more something unhealthy seems like a binge. You feel more comfortable eating more vegetables and less junk. ...

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The Herald reports on the four-alarm fire that destroyed Sorentos, Umi Fenway, Rod Dee, Greek Isle, El Pelon Taqueria and Thornton's Fenway Grille on Peterborough Street early this morning. Channel 4 has video, reports the fire also forced dozens of residents out of their apartments. Channel 5 has photos.

Whalehead King calls it the total number of pizzas made at Charlie's Pizza on Dorchester Avenue.

Ryan Kelley ranks local burrito joints in order of goodness.

Yes, the same ones that would have kept me from driving home last week are still on the file cabinet outside my office, and they spent the morning staring at me, daring me not to eat any. I admit it, I was weak: I gave in.

Then I went into our break room, where people have left even more post-holiday goodies, including the most bizarre thing I've ever seen on the first day back after New Year's: Raspberry hamentashen. Where do you even get hamentashen this time of year?

No, not James Hook, they've been re-open for awhile now, albeit in trailers. Sam Baltrusis dishes on the Atlantic Fish Co., the Boylston Street restaurant gutted in a three-alarm fire in November.

Mmm, keftedes. The transformation of the old Friendly's on Centre Street in West Roxbury into the Skara Grill is now proceeding fast and furious.

More on the plans.

The Herald reports on a sudden addition to the menu Saturday night at Franklin Southie, 152 Dorchester Ave.

Is nothing sacred over there anymore? Apparently not content to just move the bread and seltzer around, now Roche Bros. in West Roxbury has removed the white frosting from the Triple Berry Blast muffins, Matt O'Malley reports. O'Malley quickly adds he hopes this was just a mistake by the bakery department:

... However, if this frosting-free change is permanent, then God save the Commonwealth.