What are the thin people really eating? The British Journal of Nutrition just published a study this month saying that the trimmest people, those who weighed the lightest, flaunted the slimmest waists, and were proud owners of the smallest hip circumference, had the highest levels of omega 3 fatty acids in their blood. After investigating the commonality, I found that these people were in fact not freebasing flaxseed oil. They were, however, loading up on foods that were rich in omega 3s -- grass-fed beef, flaxseed, soy, salmon, etc. No one knows for sure what omega 3s do for the diet exactly ... they may stimulate hormones that make you feel full, and they have been shown to improve circulation, which can also aid in weight loss and reducing inflammation. Whatever the case, you can get slim while you dine in New York this weekend; head to a few of these "healthy" joints to load up on the good stuff.

As vice president of operations and new business development of Craft Restaurant Group, Katie Grieco works shoulder-to-shoulder with famed chef and Bravo's most recognizable Top Chef personality, Tom Colicchio. Overseeing the Craft, Craftbar, Craftsteak and 'wichcraft locations nationwide (New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas) Grieco often has her hands full. She gets the job done one restaurant at a time.

Craft-man, Top Chef judge, and now: a hard salesman. Tom Colicchio's been on the hunt for foodie-recessioneers in a far more high-profile way than many a New York restaurateur would (or could) pull off. First, he turned the Craft private dining room into his every-other-Tuesday, $150 prix-fixe resto TOM: Tuesday Dinner, which he further evolved into Damon: Frugal Friday -- a collection of smallish plates by Colicchio's main man/chef Damon Wise, where nothing is more than $10. But as if that were enough, they're doing it to Craftsteak, too, in the form of -- yes -- "Halfsteak."

Las Vegas is officially a bust. Hard times in Sin City mean bargain-basement deals for you, especially now that the New York Times has appointed the city "Frugal Destination of the Year." Vegas has about 141,000 hotel rooms and is currently working with a 15% drop in occupancy rates, which translates to $199 rates at Wynn Las Vegas and $14 rates at the El Cortez Cabana Suites. And the deals don't stop there.

Capitale’s Seth Greenberg on the origins of bottle service, taking over Boston, why Parisians bite New York style, and who really invented bottle service.

Point of Origin: The Paradise Club and Stitches [were my first properties, both in Boston]. Both needed pre-function, so we moved Stitches to an independent location. Then we expanded Paradise by opening M-80 in the old Stitches site. So we moved Stitches to a new location, about a mile away, so now Stitches had a big space. A comedy club in the back, and a little restaurant bar/lounge up front. And now M-80 was connected to the Paradise Club. After about a year, we expanded, then eventually gutted the entire facility so M-80 had both buildings. Then we expanded M-80 to New York, opened Conscience Point in Southampton, and created M-80 in the summer.

Stephanie Izard might be bragging to all her friends that she's some kind of a top chef, but everyone knows the real top chefs are the top-earning ones. Forbes, pathological ranker of wealth, has listed the top ten best-paid chefs. It used to be that Wolfgang Puck was the only celeb chef around (Spago is the tits), but with the rise of the Food Network and shows like Iron Chef, what you do with duck confit can get you just as noticed as the famous mouths you feed.