We may be far from the streets of New Orleans where revelers are reveling in Mardi Gras today, but, as always, we celebrate the Foodspotting way! With a feast on the table and a camera in hand.

If you've ever been to "New Awlins," you may have tried NOLA signatures, like fried catfish, shrimp po' boys, and authentic muffuletta. Our co-founder, Teddy, will be celebrating today by going for a more traditional Cajun-Creole meal with red beans, rice, jambalaya, and fried okra.

However and wherever you celebrate, make sure to dig into the sweet finishing touch – and most important part – king cake! While king cake is associated with different festivals throughout the world, the Louisiana variety is like a large cinnamon-roll cake frosted and coated with sprinkles in the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, and gold. The best part? Each cake is baked with a small plastic trinket – often in the shape of a wee plastic baby. The lucky guy or girl to find the trinket in their slice of cake wins! "What" depends on who you're hanging out with, I guess. Still, it's good to be king! Even if all you gain is a small plastic baby.

Foodspotting loves a good food holiday, especially one that we celebrate frequently! We're talking about National Cereal Day, of course. If you have ever attended one of our regular San Francisco-based Cereal Bars (they're like office hours/meet-and-mingle mornings for our friends, fellow startups, and breakfast lovers) then you would know what we mean. It's true – the Foodspotting team is powered by peanut butter-filled pretzels and cereal.

Rumor has it that cereal was invented during the Colonial era when housewives decided to pop corn and served it with sugar and cream for breakfast. Regardless of its origin or type, we hope you'll celebrate with us by having a bowl or two. I'm not gonna lie, I sometimes have it for dinner too.

Starting today, you'll see that your logged-in Foodspotting homepage has a brand new look. The Dashboard is the latest addition to Foodspotting, which our resident coding genius Ted has been hard at work fine-tuning.

This new lens on Foodspotting makes it easier to learn about new foods by letting you see the latest recommendations from friends, as well as updates to places, foods and guides that you follow. Eventually, by following more people, places, foods and guides you trust, your recommendations on Foodspotting will get better and better! Plus doesn't everything feel cozier and friendlier already? :)

Don't worry if you absolutely adore our map view on the homepage, that hasn't gone away. Simply click on the Explore page of our site to see it again.

As always, feedback is welcome, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on this new dashboard.

Aside from releasing our Android app and announcing our Official SXSW Street Food Fest presented by BlackBerry, we came across all manners of fun food news, announcements and discoveries this week. Below are a few of our favorites. If you have a tip for next week's Weekend Wrap Up, just shoot us an email with "Weekend Wrap Up" in the subject line.

- Foodspotting First Friday is today! Tag related tweets and include #FSEatUps in the notes section of your sighting. This month's theme is "circular shaped foods."

- We were left speechless by this Japanese sushi candy video.

- Watch cream hit the surface of coffee in this gorgeous high speed video by Modernist Cuisine.

- Visit The Nutropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this weekend. Receive a free jar of peanut butter just for stopping by. Exhibit runs from today to Sunday, March 6th.

- Secret crops of the Japanese citrus fruit Dekopon hits stores in California. (LA Times)

- The new season of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations premiered this week, and we're so excited to stumble on Into No Res, a Tumblr blog that goes behind the scenes of the show.

- We'll be watching America's Next Great Restaurant with Chef Bobby Flay this Sunday night on NBC.

That's all for our first ever Weekend Wrap Up. Catch us on Twitter and Facebook, and have a great weekend, everybody!

After the lobsters were presented on a platter at our table, they were whisked away to the kitchen where they (magically!) became lobster sashimi for our first course. The second course was lobster tempura, and for the final course, the lobster remains flavored a filling lobster miso soup.

The three-course lobster menu for two is available for $120. If you're seriously considering stopping by, do make a reservation. This experience, along with some of New York's best sushi, should inspire adventurous eaters and sushi "afishionados" to put 15 East on their Wanted list!

Look at the joy on Teddy's face - it's because we just launched the Foodspotting app on the Android Market! We know that many of you have been waiting for this day, so thank you for your patience. We're so excited to have the Android community join us.

It's still a lite version of the app - giving you the ability to find foods around you and upload photos of your recommendations while on the go. We've had such great demand for an app from the Android community that we wanted to release this right away, and then continue moving forward with new versions. We're already working on building in a profile view, and a way to interact with guides.

Very special thanks goes out to all the foodspotters who helped us beta test the app, helping us work through the kinks and making it a better experience overall.

Here's what to do: Download the app and take it for a spot! Of course, if you have feedback, please get in touch with us on our Get Satisfaction page or email our support team.

A huge round of applause goes to our Android contractor, Bob Penrod, who helped us build it. We're so lucky to be surrounded by good people! If you or someone awesome you know wants to join us, remember - we're hiring!

Lots have been happening at Foodspotting lately. This week, we released our app to the Android Market! And you guys may have noticed that we're co-hosting The Official SXSW Street Food Fest with BlackBerry on March 13th. So, BlackBerry friends, we have you guys in mind. Last but not least - iPhone-using foodspotters, thanks always for your support. We have an app update coming out soon too.

To celebrate our latest milestones, grab some friends and go out in the name of Foodspotting this Friday. We're kicking off monthly eat-ups called Foodspotting First Friday and we hope you'll join us by hosting or attending one in your city!

Each FFF will revolve around a theme, and this month's theme is "circular shaped foods" aka BALL shaped foods. Take a look at our Meetup.com page to find an existing event in your city or be awesome by starting your own. If you're in New York, come out to meet me for drinks and arancini - fried Italian rice balls - at Bar Stuzzichini in the Flatiron District at 6:30p. For inspiration for your own eat-up, take a look at some of our favorite round edibles: Helga's meatballs, sesame balls, cakeballs...

Whichever falafal-like food you decide on, spread the word and ROLL OUT.

Hey y'all!* The Foodspotting team is heading to the grand old state of Texas for SXSW. As part of the festivities, we're hosting The Official SXSW Street Food Fest presented by BlackBerry on Sunday, March 13th. That day we're gathering some of Austin's best street foods together and the lineup simply has us super pumped for next week! Take a look:

SXSW conference badge holders get in free while we'll ask non-badge holders to pay a small fee which will go toward Charity: Water. Justin Bieber's doing it too! Donating to Charity: Water, that is. Not attending our Street Food Fest :P

Because there's never too much of a good thing, we're also hosting a Secret Menu Scavenger Hunt. To win prizes, follow the guide and spot as many of the secret menu items as you can from our street fest food trucks. Spot a few to win a smaller prize; spot them all to win the grand prize.

Don't forget to RSVP. We can't wait to see you guys in Austin!

*I've always wanted to use that greeting without it sounding out of place!