Juana Burrito, Baltimore’s newest mobile food truck, will be serving up tacos for a buck (instead of $3) from 9 p.m. to 12:01 a.m. tonight (April 15) at the main post office on Fayette Street for last-minute tax filers. (Thanks for the tip, Downtown Diane.)

The burrito truck will also be offering its signature dishes at lunchtime today from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at The Rotunda on W. 40th St. if you’d like to get a head start.

Also, Sotto Sopra Restaurant has a $1 pasta deal tonight from 5-10 p.m. Ease your tax pain with spaghetti alla Bolognese, penne with salmon and Pernod, and rigatoni with eggplant and mozzarella among other great plates.

Or you can make a donation to the Kennedy Krieger Institute, which helps children and teens with brain disorders. Restaurant reservations are required.

Tony Foreman, co-owner and wine director of Pazo restaurant, will take over as the restaurant’s new executive chef, showcasing a selection of signature items along with several traditional favorites currently offered, according to a press release sent out this morning.

Foreman will be joined in the kitchen by Mario Cano-Catalan as chef du cuisine. Mario has worked for Foreman and chef Cindy Wolf for the past 10 years, and was part of the opening team at both Pazo and Cinghiale, most recently as sous chef at Cinghiale.

Several dishes on the Pazo menu will now reflect a western Mediterranean influence, including a traditional arroz la bomba (a rice dish with grilled chicken and chorizo, or heads on shrimp, mussels, octopus, monkfish with lobster stock and saffron, or a vegetable option with mushroom confit, artichoke, and tomato); a variety of seafood cooked a la plancha (grilled on a metal plate); goat's cheese empanadas; and various cuts of beef as well as rack of lamb and duck breast cooked on a wood-fired grill.

Breads will still baked in-house fresh every day. Now, they will be offered with a selection of dips, from a warm cheese fondue to grilled eggplant salad and olive tapenade.

Foreman—who also owns Petit Louis Bistro, Charleston, and Cinghiale with Cindy Wolf—says he wants the food at Pazo to be joyful. "It's just natural and fun to do it myself this time," he says.

All the seats for the Michael Pollan talk at Goucher have been claimed. But, don’t worry, you can still see him if you don’t have tickets.

The Towson college will be live streaming the event, which starts at 8 p.m. Tuesday (April 13), so you can hear what the bestselling author has to say. Pollan, a well-known critic of the world’s industrial food system, isn’t known for mincing words. One of his most popular books is Omnivore's Dilemma.

To watch the lecture via computer, go to Goucher’s home page on Tuesday. There will be prompts for logging onto the real-time streaming. The video will not be archived, so you have to watch the talk at 8, says Kristen Keener, Goucher’s director of media relations.

I got tickets weeks ago and will also blog about it. Right now, I’m reading Pollan's book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. The short opening paragraph is powerful: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

But I love that Pollan isn’t anti-meat. He recommends making it a side dish. Works for me. I’m so susceptible to these food arguments. Since seeing the film Food Inc., I can only eat organic yogurt by Stoneyfield!

Sometimes, restaurant news happens when you least expect it. I went outside to mail some letters and stopped to watch a sign being installed on the Harbor East building where the Baltimore magazine offices are located on Lancaster Street. It was announcing a new Greek restaurant, right in my building!

At the same time, Alex Smith, who is getting ready to open the All-American Deli and Pizzeria, where Elevation Burger used to be, walked up with two business partners, who will be involved in the Greek restaurant. Details are still sketchy. Smith, who also owns the nearby Häagen-Dazs, is concentrating on the deli right now, which he plans to open in two weeks.

Then, the next project will be the Greek place, which the sign promises will have "authentic cuisine." There’s no name yet, but the owners hope to have construction done by the end of the year. There’s talk of outside sidewalk tables and a deck across the street. I hope it lives up to expectations.

How about Cobblestone Corner? The newest rendition of the Fells Point space is expected to open April 23. It will be owned and operated by the same family who has run Edie’s Deli & Grill on West Pratt Street for 10 years.

I just talked to Edie Chin, who will be operating the former neighborhood bar turned bistro at 1738 Thames St. with her husband Jimmy and daughter, Erica Russo.

She said they plan to run a restaurant and pub that will appeal to families (with a children’s menu) but also to night-lifers with live music. They also would like to attract the area’s dog walkers with outside water bowls and treats.

The décor will be similar to the previous restaurant, but the family has opened up some walls. There will be a game room with high-top tables. But the pool table is gone.

"We want people to feel comfortable and give them good food," said Edie. "We want a family place with a pub."

Good food will very much be the focus, she said, with a reliance on fresh, local products and house-made dishes. (After all, this a woman who steams her own chickens for her deli chicken salad.) The menu will range from duck breast to bison burgers.

They plan to be open for lunch and dinner and offer Saturday and Sunday brunch. "We’re going to work hard at it," Edie said. I believe her.

April is national grilled-cheese month, a new grilled-cheese restaurant opens on Monday (April 5),  and Mt. Washington Tavern unveils three new grilled-cheese sandwiches.

All this talk about grilled cheese sent me to Teavolve in Harbor East today for its adult grilled-cheese panini. It was a perfect choice for a meatless Good Friday. The hot, crunchy sandwich was stuffed with gooey feta, fresh mozzarella, and goat cheese. Definitely, not what Mom used to make.

Mom wasn't the inspiration for Vic Corbi either. He got the idea for his new Catonsville restaurant Grilled Cheese & Co. in an interesting way. About six years ago, he dreamed he was selling grilled-cheese sandwiches, he says. He shared that vision with his golf buddy Matt Lancelotta, who used to own the Federal Hill bar Light Street Station (now the Row House Grille).

Now, the dream has come to fruition in the first of what owners Vic and Matt hope will be a franchise operation. They’ve already had a lot of interest, Vic says.

For now, the focus is on the new place. Menu choices include The Original  (grilled American cheese) and Veggie Delight (Havarti with roasted veggies and wild mushrooms). Of course, there are soups, including cream of tomato basil, and other offerings. Hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. daily.

Mt. Washington Tavern also had cheese on its mind. Its new sandwiches include wheat-berry bread with manchego and prosciutto ham; thick rye with American cheese, applewood bacon, and tomato; and wheat-berry bread with Vermont cheddar, Havarti, goat cheese, and tomato.

Who said April is the cruelest month?

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No April’s Fool’s joke! Grano Pasta Bar in Hampden is serving lunch now, starting today (April 1), on Wednesdays-Sundays from 11:30 a.m-1 p.m. However, it won’t be open on Easter Sunday, said Grano’s personable owner Gino Troia, who wants his employees to enjoy the holiday.

Gino also said he has brought in a chef from Florence to take on the cooking duties. If you haven’t been to the restaurant on Chestnut Avenue, around the corner from its smaller offshoot, Little Grano on The Avenue, you’ll find great pasta dishes and a warm, neighborhood spirit.

But it’s a tiny (and cute) space with small dining rooms on two levels. It gets crowded pretty quickly. For that reason, Gino said he’s decided not to accept reservations anymore unless it’s a party of 10 or larger. He’s hoping to better accommodate his guests, he said.

Dinner is still offered from 5:30-10:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays. It's BYO with a reasonable $3 corkage fee per bottle. Little Grano opens at 11:30 a.m. Mondays-Saturdays and is closed on Sundays. See you soon in Hampden, Hon.