You've heard of March Madness. It's competitive, but not always tasty. Now, welcome to Munch Madness: competitive and tasty. We'll pit 64 local restaurants against one another to determine the champion of the local dining scene.

On March 17, we'll post our bracket in the paper and online. Rounds 1 and 2 will take place March 18-21 (we'll skip the play-in game), and you'll be able to cast your vote online. Of course, there will be a forum for you to argue vociferously with others. We're fashioning ourselves after March Madness, after all. Following rounds will correspond with March Madness games.

The first steps are determining who gets a ticket to the dance and seeding the restaurants. You can help. Let us know which restaurants you feel absolutely, positively must participate in the tournament. These can be anything from the most expensive restaurant in town to the tiny mom-and-pop on your corner. We want to hear who's deserving and why. Post your suggestions in the comments section here, or let us know on Twitter. I'm @devrafirst. Be sure to tag your suggestions #munchmadness.

Who gets to play? Who will make it to the Final Four? And who will take the crown? In Munch Madness, it's up to you.

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Co-owners Chris Parsons and wife Megan at Catch. (Erik Jacobs for The Boston Globe)

Catch chef Chris Parsons heads off to New York on Thursday for orientation for the Bocuse d'Or USA competition. Friday is a prep day, and the contest takes place on Saturday. We'll have a story about his participation in Wednesday's paper, so stay tuned.

It's exciting. But that's not all he's got going on.
 
He's changing the name and concept of Catch. The Winchester seafood restaurant will now be called Parsons Table. It will be a neighborhood restaurant featuring ingredient-driven, amped-up comfort food. Yes, that sounds like a lot of other restaurants. But they're not located in Winchester.

Parsons Table will feature Winchester-baked Mamadou's bread, Island Creek oysters, Shelburne Farms cheddar, Ioka Valley Farm steak, Alyson's Orchard apples, local microbrews, and other regional ingredients. The menu includes the likes of salads, fondue, hand-cut fettuccine with smoked chicken and tomato confit, steak frites, and rainbow trout with haricots verts, potatoes, and pancetta.

Catch won't be going away. Parsons intends to relocate in Boston or Cambridge. Those plans are pending. The Winchester location will continue to operate through Valentine's Day weekend. During that time, Parsons will be bringing back favorite dishes from Catch's six-year run: salt-roasted Wellfleet clams with chorizo breadcrumbs, oregano mojo, and roasted lemon; Gloucester scallops with roasted pineapple, soy beans, celery root, and braised short-rib ravioli; and more.
 
He hopes to have Parsons Table open by the end of the month. Renovations begin Feb. 15. The new space will feature tabletops of reclaimed wood and barn-wood siding.

So posit the folks behind the upcoming Greater Boston Kimchi Festival. Kimchi is everywhere these days, though perhaps not quite as ubiquitous as cupcakes, and I say yay. For the fermented spicy cabbage that is a mainstay of the Korean diet is one of my favorite foods.

Globe Staff Photo/Suzanne Kreiter

I think it could also become one of yours, if it isn't already. So let's celebrate it on March 21, from 3 to 7 p.m., at the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church, 1859 Centre St., West Roxbury. (Not that you need the address -- you can probably just smell your way there.)

There will be a contest for the best homemade kimchi, as well as tastings, demonstrations, door prizes, and more.

For further information, e-mail kimchi-info@lactoferment.com.

Lee Napoli makes lovely chocolates. She closed her Chocolee shop on Pembroke Street in the South End a while back, much to the chagrin of chocoholics citywide.

Word is, she'll rehang her shingle soon -- on the former Haley House Bakery site in the same neighborhood. The new shop could open in March.

Lee Napoli. Yes, please. More of that, please. (Globe File Photo/Janet Knott)

In February, the Fenway Cantina is opening at 1260 Boylston St., behind the ballpark. The tagline is: "Ice cold beer and food." Simple. To the point. Bring it.

It's run by the folks behind Blue on Highland in Needham and 88 Wharf in Milton; the chef is Blue's Peter Tartsinis. The food is inspired by Mexico -- the likes of corn and poblano tamales with salsa verde, enchiladas, and chicken mole, with a few cheeseburgers and mac 'n' cheeses thrown in for good measure. There will be about 20 beers on tap and 50 in bottles.

It fills the niche La Verdad already occupies comfortably, but with a little more Tex in its Mex. The place will served dinner till 1 a.m. daily, which is always nice. And I do love the word "cantina." It makes me hungry. And it makes me think of "Star Wars."

Across from Back Bay station, Firefly has morphed into Six Burner, serving "Inspired Comfort Food (just like your mom's cooking, just a little more amped up)." We haven't seen that before. Oh, wait, we have. But that doesn't mean it's not a good idea for the former Firefly, which never seemed to draw the crowd it should in that location.

On the menu: chicken pot pie spring rolls (this was bound to happen sooner or later), meatloaf with stout gravy, Kobe beef hot dogs, tuna melts, and so on. There's brunch, too, on weekends. Also: Wednesday Wii tournaments, Thursday trivia nights, and monthly beer dinners. Fun for the after-work crowd. Possibly even fun enough to miss the commuter rail for.

In today's story on snacks, I mentioned the Dosa Factory, serving Indian street food in Central Square, Cambridge.

A chili-garlic-cheese dosa at the Dosa Factory. (Globe Staff Photo/Matthew J. Lee)

The restaurant is located in the back of Shalimar, a grocery store brimming with Indian products. If you're interested in dosas, you might also be interested in the store's Spice Tours. On Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to noon, a chef leads guests through the aisles, explaining how spices, sauces, and other ingredients are used. The tour is followed by a dosa lunch at the Dosa Factory.

The cost for tour and food is $20. Call 617-868-DOSA. Of course.

Tune in Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 11 a.m. to talk about food and restaurants with critic Devra First. Check out Devra's roundup of snacks that expand flavors and ignore borders.

Head on over to Stella after work. There, chef Evan Deluty and guest chefs Dante de Magistris, Anthony Caturano, and Michael Schlow are joining forces to raise money for Yele Haiti. All of the proceeds will go to the organization. There will be an open bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, and live jazz. 6:30-10:30 p.m. $100 per person. Call 617-497-4200.

This Stoddard's? It's pushed back its opening oh, about 3,698,732 times now.

Here's the latest scoop: There's an invitee-only opening party on Jan. 27.

And the public will at long last be able to get its shoes shined and to drink of ye olde historic cocktails before said cocktails go back out of fashion. But not until mid-February. Theoretically, Feb. 16, with a soft opening and limited menu the week of Feb. 8.

See you there?

Time to play "guess what restaurant might come to this space."

Doesn't it look lovely?

OK, I'll make it a little easier. That photo is from 2002. It actually looks more like this now:
 

Globe Staff File Photo/Pat Greenhouse

I do stress "might," because the idea of a place serving alcohol daily till 2 a.m. won't necessarily be embraced in this fairly residential Roxbury location.

It's somewhat off the beaten restaurant path, something the potential manager has a bit of a history with.

And it apparently has rather fabulous patio space: There's an attached greenhouse seating area for 50 people, plus an outdoor patio for 25.

That could be a game changer for this neighborhood.

Perhaps we'll know more after a licensing board hearing this week. In the meantime, mull it over. Who/what do you imagine in this space?

P.S. Yup, it's Darryl Settles. Here's more from the Herald.

Last night, I took the night off from eating in restaurants for work. Usually when I do this, I'm pretty excited to go home and cook something simple and light. My other default option is to eat a humble bowl of noodles (preferably spicy) quietly, by myself. I love people and all, but sometimes it's nice to just sit and eat and not make chitchat. That's what I was after yesterday. Most of the other people in the restaurant were in parties of two or four, but one other person seemed to share my belief that sometimes there's nothing better than a solo bowl of soup and noodles. I think we might have saluted each other, but for the fact that we were both obviously completely uninterested in interacting with anyone else.

Alan Richman of GQ went to Brooklyn Kitchen, in Brooklyn, of course, and blogged about it here. The restaurant is owned by Mexican-born Cesar Ramirez. He worked at David Bouley's Bar Blanc.

Picking up the mantle of local, sustainable food are new owner Don Otto, a Roxbury native, and his family. In early February, the name will change to Don Otto's Natural & Organic Market. According to former owner James Lionette, the staff will remain, aside from him.

Brothers Robert (left) and James Lionette in the store when it opened in 2003. (Globe Staff Photo/Jonathan Wiggs)

Don Otto's website states the new market will be similar but not identical to Lionette's. Changes in the works: a sandwich menu and a bigger selection of cheese.

Uber-attorney Kenneth Starr couldn't nail Bill and Hillary's hides to the wall in the Whitewater affair, but he may have made a trophy of the Massachusetts three tier system last week - at least when it comes to interstate wine shipments. On Friday, a Federal appeals court brought the gavel down on what has been a long-running dispute between Massachusetts wholesalers eager to restrict direct shipment to consumers and Family Winemakers of California, a group that complained the Massachusetts system was a violation of the U.S. constitution's so-called Commerce Clause (Starr was the legal brain on the winning side in the 2005 Supreme Court case, Granholm & Heald, that set the stage for Friday's decision). 

Tune in Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 11 a.m. to talk about food and restaurants.