Posts Tagged ‘restaurant’
Auld Bang Syne
KEN SHIMAMOTOPresent-day Fort Worth and ’90s-era Deep Ellum are about to clash. Topping a four-band bill at Lola’s Saloon-Sixth this weekend are Haltom City’s mighty Me-Thinks, who, as they’ll freely admit, are a lit...
Something Special
LAURIE BARKER JAMESIn Spanish, “algo” translates into “something.” And the menu at Mi Tierra Latin Fusion Restaurant is literally full of algos. Every section is preceded by “algo”: “algo to start,”...
Rip-it
LAURIE BARKER JAMESWhat better place than by TCU to open a restaurant named after Old Rip, a once-famous horned frog who, in the early 1900s, was interred into the Eastland County courthouse’s cornerstone only to reappear three decades late...
Best Of 2009 Good Grub
Fort Worth Weekly StaffClick here to read more and see who won best Brunch, Late-Night Dining, Burger, and more.
The Latest, the Greatest
Chow, BabyLike most people, Chow, Baby is vulnerable to the recency effect, a cognitive-recall bias that over-credits the new, as in “Wow, this meal I’m having right now is the greatest [or worst or other superlative] of my e...
Drafting
Last CallOK, I get it, Mellow Mushroom. I can read between your lines. I mean, your menu is probably not the only menu that calls appetizers “munchies,” but it is probably the only one in town with a wizard on it (never mind...
Two Juans Make It Right
LAURIE BARKER JAMESCan you name the current executive chef at Reata Restaurant, probably the most well known purveyor of cowboy cuisine in Sundance Square? It’s not co-founder Grady Spears, whose tenure ended in 2000. Tim Love? Never was an...
Grady’s New Restaurant
Chow, BabyLast fall, or maybe it was fall the year before, Chow, Baby secretly vowed that it wouldn’t utter the words “Grady’s new restaurant” again until it had sat its very own butt in the damn place.
Benchmarks
Big TicketThe Chinese regard eight as a lucky number, which is one reason the Beijing Olympics are beginning on the date 8/8/08.
“Bait” and Switch
Laurie Barker JamesMy sister’s a sushi freak. Even when I mocked her and said I would never eat what most people consider to be bait, she persisted.