Snow?

Maddi's Southern Bistro is extending its Charlotte Restaurant Week deal -- three courses for $30 -- through Feb. 6, citing the weather forecast; call 704-987-7762. (Photo -- really! -- from snowcrystal.com.)

If it does snow, and you decide to stay in, this could help: "Eat Your Books" is a service that lets you list what cookbooks you possess, then search their recipes online for the one you're trying to think of and can't remember what book it's in.

Or you can roam the world with Food & Wine's list of 10 game-changing restaurants. (Note: Adria's "red mullet mummy" is not even the weirdest thing on the list -- click through to the edible soil and smoking fish...)