A banner on the new shopping complex on the corner of Oracle and Wetmore roads says Paradise Bakery and Café is opening a location there.

The chain-restaurant also has a location in Main Gate Square, although it's owned by a different franchisee.

There’s more information about the company here. The new location is expected to open this fall.

I don't know if these ice creams pops are actually worth eating (and the Che Guevara shaped one seems like sort of a bad idea), but tequila flavored ice cream in Mario form might actually challenge paletas as my new favorite frozen dessert on a stick.

It's hard out there for food reviewers, Liu. We're sympathetic.

The Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court on Tuesday sentenced a blogger who wrote that a restaurant’s beef noodles were too salty to 30 days in detention and two years of probation and ordered her to pay NT$200,000 in compensation to the restaurant.

The blogger, surnamed Liu (劉), writes about a variety of topics — including food, health, interior design and lifestyle topics — and has received more than 60,000 hits on her Web site.

After visiting a Taichung beef noodle restaurant in July 2008, where she had dried noodles and side dishes, Liu wrote that the restaurant served food that was too salty, the place was unsanitary because there were cockroaches and that the owner was a “bully” because he let customers park their cars haphazardly, leading to traffic jams.

The restaurant’s owner, surnamed Yang (楊), learned about Liu’s blog post from a regular customer, and filed charges against her, accusing her of defamation.

[Taipei Times]

Mad Dogs British Pub is opening a Tucson location. From the press release:

(Tucson, AZ)—- Mad Dogs British Pub, a full tilt experience of British-influenced food, beers and colorful décor is expanding its unique brand of pub entertainment across the U.S. Targeting development in Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Peoria, Tucson and Scottsdale, Mad Dogs British Pub aims to open 20 locations by mid-2015, six of which are expected to open in Arizona.

“It’s such a natural expansion for us,” says Terry Corless, a native of Cambridge, England and currently the company’s CEO. “Many of our customers in San Antonio are either transplants or visitors from around the country. We’re constantly asked when we’re going to open other locations.”

Mad Dogs British Pub opened on San Antonio’s Riverwalk in 1995 putting a playful twist on English pub culture, with its staff donning kilts and Union Jack dresses while serving beer to patrons in yard glasses. A franchise program was launched in 2010. In addition to expansion in Arizona, the brand is also eyeing expansion in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee.

There’s another new restaurant opening on the first floor of the building at 44 E. Broadway Blvd. The paper-covered windows say breakfast, lunch, cocktails and the like will be available at some point, but no opening date, name or any other information is posted.

Meanwhile, up north in the old Acacia spot, people still aren’t talking about the restaurant that’s going in there. We heard gastropub, and then heard that was wrong. We heard this rumor, and then that rumor, and we looked through the taped up windows like a Peeping Tom, and all we can report is that we know nothing but the name: Union.

Also in new restaurant news: Mr. K’s, the barbecue shop over on South Park Avenue, is opening a location in an old Chili’s restaurant by the Tucson Mall. We’ll have more on that in next week’s Noshing Around.

Has anyone eaten at Lindy’s at Redline Sports Grill yet? We haven’t, but friends say the burgers rock and that everything else is fried. In other interesting tidbits: Joel Harrington, the wonderfully mohawked chef who was heading up the restaurants at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, now works at Lindy’s at Redline Sports Grill.

Is bringing a skilled chef like Harrington - he’s got a long resume that includes huge accomplishments at several Ritz-Carlton hotels — some sort of preparation for taking the Lindy’s/Redline concept to Phoenix and beyond, as we’ve heard is a possibility? We’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, the restaurant just debuted a new menu, and we hear it's quite the party on busy nights.

If you’re into food trucks, you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled during the next couple of weeks. Several businesses are working up plans for “mobile food courts,” where certain food trucks will be parked on designated days of the week. There are also rumblings of a food-truck festival in August.

We also got an update from the guys down at Borderlands Brewing Company. Apparently the brewing tanks are arriving this week, a major milestone for the brewery. We’ve toured the warehouse where the brewery is going, and it’s truly something else. Much of the old gear from when it was a produce warehouse is still in place; it gives it the coolest industrial feel. We can’t wait to have a pint there.

Depressing doughnut news: Krispy Kreme employees up north tell us all of the Tucson-area locations have closed for good. I’ll tell you what: Krispy Kreme can’t get a break in Tucson. The first time a franchisee gave it a whirl several years ago, the stores closed unexpectedly with doughnuts still on the racks. The newest franchisee pulled out every trick in the books, and still couldn’t pull it off.

But hey, he was trucking the doughnuts in from Mesa anyway, so whatever.

We're pretty darn impressed by UA senior Kelsey McKinney, who's set to open the first cupcake bakery and coffee shop in Tanzania by August of 2012:

Kelsey McKinney is fulfilling the dream of a lifetime by establishing the first and only gourmet cupcake bakery and coffee shop in Tanzania.

It took acceptance into the Arizona Assurance scholarship program, two years of college, a scholarship to study abroad and a positive reflection on a childhood that might lead others to despair for University of Arizona senior Kelsey McKinney to find her passion.

That passion has led her to Tanzania, where she will finish her UA studies online and graduate in May along with the first cohort of Arizona Assurance scholars. There, she plans to fulfill a lifetime dream and open up a cupcake bakery and coffee shop.

Read more of Kelsey's story on UANews.

Every Thursday all summer, my friends and I meet up at Molcas Mexican Grill for half-priced tortas. The meat-filled sandwiches are hardly expensive to begin with: My favorite, the carne asada, is just $5 on most days. What's more, one serving is usually enough for two people, cutting my gang's Thursday lunch expenses to just $1.25 each. A large tent next to the food truck provides plenty of shade.

Molcas Mexican Grill, at Grant Road and Seventh Avenue, is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. almost every day. Read more about Molcas here.

Photo: My friend Susan enjoys a scrumptious (and very cheap!) torta at Molcas Mexican Grill.

University-area folks have had it good with café and microroastery Caffe Luce keeping them caffeinated for the past four years.

Now those a bit farther north can get some of that good stuff, too, with the new location of Caffe Luce open for business at 4205 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 125.

Owner Michael Foster said he opened the new location last Wednesday.

Foster said the coffee he serves is roasted at the Main Gate Square location, and that no beans are used after they’ve been around longer than seven days.

Hours at the new location are 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday; 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday.

Another week, another frozen-yogurt shop.

This time, the name of the joint is U-Swirl Frozen Yogurt, which is expected to open soon at 3587 E. Broadway Blvd.

As the name implies, it will be a self-serve, by-the-ounce shop where you do the swirling. The company website says stores typically serve 18 flavors at a time, although there’s way more than that listed over here.

In a recent Facebook development that no one likely cared about or asked for, Facebook added a strange voting feature on their sidebar in which you can rank things, if you've run out of interesting things to do with your time and energy. I'm a big fan of the game "Would You Rather", so I'm generally ok with the idea of picking one of two vaguely related items over another, but with all of the free data that I've given Facebook over the last two years, I'd hope the algorithms behind the site would at least be smart enough to realize that the very idea of pitting Pico de Gallo against Taco Bell is insulting to the high quality South Tucson eatery. C'mon, Zuckerberg, get it together.

Just to provide some balance, here's a rap tribute to the home of the "Fourth Meal":