Peek at 74 Orchard, LES Food Tours, Dragon Fruit, Falai

It’s been a really busy week on the LES restaurant scene. The health department shut down The National Underground. The Doughnut Plant made plans to expand. Cafe Grumpy opened. In other food news:

• We took a sneak peek at the renovations inside 74 Orchard, the former home of the short-lived Bunny Chow and the future home of an as-yet-unnamed burgers and fish-and-chips joint backed by the owners of Los Feliz.
• The Tenement Museum’s Annie Polland talked about German beer halls of old and the Lower East Side food tours beginning next week.
• Dragon fruit is making its way onto American menus, and the chef at Alias says, “It looks like something out of Star Wars, like Jabba the Hut would be eating.”
• Iacopo Falai is expanding his LES empire with a new trattoria at 77 Clinton St.