Charging for Salsa
I can count on three fingers the number of Mexican joints that charge for chips and salsa (at least the ones I’m aware of):...
Gleefully Free of Gluten
Another year, another diet craze that restaurants rush to accommodate. A few years ago the Atkins diet was all the rage. Menus all over...
Blowing My Cover
For the first time ever, I was spotted and unmasked as Chow, Baby while reviewing a restaurant. One of the fun parts of being...
Take My Dad. Please.
Consider this a public service announcement for all the waitstaffers in the 817: Beware of dads bearing bad, lame, tired old jokes. Or maybe...
The Windy Apple
New York Pizza & Gyros (2707 Race St, Ste 121, 817-222-2433) on Race Street has a dirty little secret: It serves a ton of...
Feats of Meats
There’s an art to eating the Jambo Texan at Jambo’s BBQ Shack (1724 W Division Rd, Arlington, 817-275-7881). The six-layered goliath is a sandwich...
Jeepers, That’s Good Food
Race Street on the Near East Side has spent years trying to position itself as an entertainment district with varying degrees of success. “Build...
Social-ability
Remember the hype around Brownstone when it opened in 2010? You would have thought Top Chef hottie Casey Thompson had ridden in on a...
Prisoner of Love
In tribute to the writer Donald E. Westlake, who died late last year, Chow, Baby is re-reading all 100-plus of his pulp, crime, and...
Kissing the Pink
Hoo, Chow, Baby is glad that for once it looked around before it leapt. Last week it was all set to proclaim that the...
