• What happens when a San Francisco food writer loses her sense of taste. [NYT]

• Michael Bauer turns in his review of TBD, the fire-based joint from the AQ team and it turns out that flame is hard to control. [Chron]

• Some enterprising person is using Tinder to get free Uber referral credits. Also: do dates expect to be picked up in Uber rides these days? [TechCrunch]

• The producers of "Looking" talk about showing another side of San Francisco. [TheWrap]

• New "Bipartisan" anti-gay bill in Congress is shockingly very partisan. [Gawker]

• Pies for brunch? Sure why not. [EaterSF]

• Weather this week: back to warm and dry, with temperatures in the 60s. [BCN/Appeal]