Several new gourmet restaurants in Marseille, France, are doubling as community spaces where local residents can gather for history lessons, borrow library books and receive employment advice. These “restaurants solidaire” have their own social missions and ways of helping the community. At the popular Chaleur, diners in need receive free espressos and meals at a reduced rate. That “enriches” the restaurant’s staff, co-founder Raphael Raynard told the BBC, and leaves him “fulfilled in what I do.”

After being accused of impersonating former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Long Island wine importer Bill DeBlasio is setting the record straight. The vintner decided to play along when he got an email from The Times of London asking for his thoughts on mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies, DeBlasio told Semafor. But “I never once said I was the mayor” and was shocked when The Times published his critiques. The article was pulled after the more famous de Blasio condemned the “fabricated” quotes.