One Too Many Courses
I’m not sure there’s a new restaurant I’ve looked forward to trying more than Le Cep (3324 W. 7th St.). Chef Sandra Avila’s haute...
Love the Love Shack, Baby
What was it Chow, Baby said almost two years ago? That it wishes our star chefs would get over the posheries and open more...
Once or Twice Is Good for the Soul
Chow, Baby had an honorable childhood nickname, a tribute to its courageous mutiny against the social and personal-grooming mandates of the time: "Rat's Nest."...
Pickled on the Plaza
Taco Diner (156 W. 4th St.) and I got off on the wrong foot. It wasn’t all their fault. Sitting on the patio of...
Lighten Up
Some restaurants are inverters: You arrive in a bad mood, and they quickly turn your frown upside down. Some are amplifiers: You arrive in...
Good ’Wich of the East
Like everybody else in the world, Chow, Baby saw this "now officially a recession!" coming, and so over Thanksgiving week in New Orleans it...
Memory Lane
These days, Chow, Baby stops in at Fort Worth Weekly's palatial near-downtown offices now and then to crab in person about its expense-account limits....
A River Bend Runs Through It
In the middle of a labyrinthine industrial area of warehouses and giant office buildings, River Bend Café & Catering (7251 Stoneway Dr N, Ste...
Noooo Reservations
You don't generally think of Fort Worth as a city focused on immediate gratification, a place like New York or New Orleans where your...
Filling the Fuego Void
I’ve been missing Salsa Fuego a lot lately. Last year, the outstanding haute-ish Mexican eatery moved out of its tiny location on the Weatherford...












