According to French officials, at least 80 people are dead and 18 are in critical condition in Nice, France, after a driver plowed a truck through a crowd during a Bastille Day parade, the BBC reports. French President Francois Hollande said the attack was of a “terrorist nature.”

Happy Bastille Day! For those of you who don't know, Bastille Day is the French ripoff of July 4th, but they hold it 10 days later so they can pretend like it's their own special thing. That's so like France! Anyway, today we're declaring our independence from these awful French things.

[French President Nicolas Sarkozy kisses his wife Carla Bruni during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. Bastille Day, or Quatorze Juillet, is like the Fourth of July, but in France. And on the 14th. Pic via AP]

The Eiffel Tower is the centerpiece of a fireworks display at the conclusion of the Bastille Day celebration in Paris last night. [AP/Thibault Camus]

• Hell freezes over: Rocco DiSpirito says he's been in talks with restaurateur— and onetime enemy—Jeffrey Chodorow about opening a new restaurant. [GS]
• The Standard Grill started up breakfast service today. [TFB]
• New York isn't the only magazine with a "Cheap Eats" issue on newsstands this week. It seems Time Out New York has got one, too. [TONY]
• The latest urban food fight: fruit vendors are now squaring off. [NYT]
• It's Bastille Day! Here are a few places to go to celebrate. [GS]

• Café Socialista, the downstairs cafe at Armin Amiri's Socialista, is no longer; investors such as Sting, Harvey Weinstein and Ben Silverman will likely reopen it in September as a lounge. [Grub St]