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Smells like Chain Spirit

Not Your Mother’s Lunch Club

Everything Is Permitted

History’s Sausage Party

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All Tacos Great and Small

Sometimes you find great tacos in unexpected places. There I was at a Cocktail Week event at Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th, 817-759-9100)...

FrankenKitchen, It’s Alive!

None of the 40 or so guests at a recent pop-up were receptive when I referred to FrankenKitchen as Adrian Hulet’s Monster. Few people...

Rising from the Ashes

Here's the thing about Donna Albanese of Piola (3700 Mattison Av.): Every time you see her, she's gotten more beautiful. Yeah, nice for her...

Off the Track

Chow, Baby couldn't quite make sense of Jack's Off the Wall, the new casual-hangout bar slash gourmet restaurant slash live-music venue that took over...

Brace Yourselves for World of Beer

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when my server at World of Beer (3252 W. 7th St., 682-708-7021) brought out a giant pretzel...

Currying Favor

When Chow, Baby said it liked hanging out in South Arlington, it certainly wasn’t talking about Arlington Highlands, the self-proclaimed “lifestyle center” that has...

Seoul Satisfying

Chow, Baby got back from Mardi Gras in New Orleans - yes, things are getting back to normal, thanks for asking. Several of Chow, Baby's...

Wayward Sage

Back in, what, 2004, Café Panache in Hurst was one of Chow, Baby's favorite restaurants, though after five years it doesn't recall specifically why....

Chow, Baby’s Christmas Card

Who posseses the mental bandwidth and organizational skills to take and send out Christmas cards with family pictures every year? What I don’t get...

Frog Privilege

Sometimes food exploring backfires. Here was my big idea: Find the next Salsa Limón. Long before the authentic taqueria started its rapid expansion, it...