La Perla Negra: Culinary All-Star
I can’t pretend to be unbiased about Le Perla Negra (910 Houston St.), a new Latin eatery in the downtown space formerly occupied by...
What a Difference Bouquet Makes
Yeah, it's "just" a cold, but Chow, Baby sure feels like crap. The ears are stopped up, the nose is stopped up, and the...
Lucky at Lunch
"And with diners cutting back on pricey dinners, we'll see more lunch deals at expensive restaurants." That was cut from an early draft of...
Whatever Will Be
The Fort Worth restaurant biz is a cruel villain sitting in a swivel chair stroking a hairless cat. It gets in the right lane...
Research in Motion
Oh, the places Chow, Baby has been! And the foodstuffs it devoured! Chow, Baby's summer research tour - 49 eateries in 10 days, a...
Feed a Cabin Fever
Last week’s icy roads and rolling blackouts (no TV for several minutes at a time!) meant that homebound Chow, Baby actually had to turn...
Pakse Bounces Back
There’s nothing like a great comeback story to cleanse the psychic palate, especially after that rotted animal corpse of a year we all just...
At Your Service
It's reader-service week here at Chow, Baby headquarters - not in the traditional journalistic "we're here to serve the reader" use of the phrase,...
Cruising the ’Yards
I may be blackballed from the Tex-Mex food critics association for the following confession: I don’t eat Tex-Mex on the North Side very often....
Eating for You
Chow, Baby is the people’s food critic. Just think of me as your light in dim places, (or sometimes a canary for your culinary...
