Boston Restaurant Talk reports that plans for a Friendly Toast in Coolidge Corner have fallen through.

Dave Goodrich shows us the court order and other documents testifying to the end of Salamander's on River Street - which only opened in January.

A California restaurant chain called the Broken Yolk Cafe is suing Robert's Broken Yolk of Malden in an attempt to make it change its name - and to pay for the "irreparable injury" the chain's reputation has suffered from the alleged name poaching. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board said today it will hold off any action on a proposed liquor license for a Friendly Toast on Stanhope Street today because the manager proposed for the restaurant is a New Hampshire resident, and Massachusetts regulations require all managers of restaurants with liquor licenses to live in state. Read more.

Centre Street near the Roche Center gets all the attention as a restaurant row, but the past couple of years have seen the rise of an interesting cluster of take-out restaurants along Washington Street between Grove and Birchwood streets.

It's very difficult to find a place to eat then. Thank goodness for the Westbury in West Roxbury (at 6 a.m., somebody was just lifting the security grate at the Robinwood in JP),

As for why I was driving around the City that Always Sleeps at that ungodly hour, well, had to get the kidlet to school for a field trip. A field trip to Williamstown.

OK, so we're not so tough: This morning, I drove the kidlet and the kid from next door to school, to minimize their risk of cracking heads on slippery sidewalks. Since I had to scrape off the car (again!), I didn't have time to make myself coffee (you know, one of the four essential food groups), so rather than having breakfast at home, I stopped at the newly opened Sugar Baking Co. in Roslindale Square (Washington Street, across from the Dunkin' Donuts).

Whoa: The last time I was in a Mug 'N Muffin, I could still watch Bobby Orr advertising BayBanks on the TV I'd picked up at Lechmere. But time moves more slowly in Norwood Center, apparently - they still have a Mug 'N Muffin (at 716 Washington St.).

Walk in and it's exactly as you remember them - a smallish, darkish place with wooden-beam ceilings (in this case, faux beams, in the sense that you can see how they aren't actually holding up the ceiling). In other words, sort of like you'd expect your grandma's kitchen to be if she lived in Vermont, right down to the decorations on the walls:

As for the food, it's basic breakfast fare, done right - assuming you like everything doused in butter, and who doesn't? Also inexpensive, even if you don't get there in time for the early-morning specials.

Oh yeah, and they serve their hot drinks in mugs:

UPDATE: We try the Town Square Diner.

Turned off by the Rosebud's policy of no crosswords on weekends, new-to-Davis Mike Mennonno wanders into the Blue Shirt Cafe, where he reports that overhearing an amazingly stupid debate (over cows and chickens in some third-world hellhole) failed to make up for the absolutely horrible food.