Rumormongering

Juicy stuff from Eater National: Heston Blumenthal is said to be opening a restaurant in one of the U.S. locations of the Mandarin Oriental hotel. The source is the editor of London's Food and Travel magazine. Before Washington gets too excited for a Blumenthal/Eric Ziebold faceoff, though, a spokeswoman for the DC Mandarin Oriental says that there are no plans for the Fat Duck chef to open anything here. [EN]