Yatai Food Kart: Haute Ramen
“How spicy, sir?” Kevin Martinez asks the guy standing in line in front of me. “Sniffles? Crying? Or ‘I don’t like you’?”
The customer opts...
On the Road to Izquierda
In most Spanish-immersion situations, Chow, Baby gets by just fine with a jolly ¡Hola!, Gracias, and Por favor, show me donde I am en...
Home Sweet Enchilada
Few things comfort me more than the blue corn cheese enchilada at Blue Mesa Southwestern Grill (612 Carroll St, 817-332-6372). The gooey queso fresco...
As the Restaurant World Turns
Has there ever been a year in the local culinary world as tumultuous, surprising, and exciting as 2015? Well, yes. All of them. That’s...
Family First
Editor's note: As regular readers know, Chow, Baby hails from New Orleans -
and is therefore occupied at the moment in taking care of...
You Got That Right
It so happens that Chow, Baby prefers its seafood po-boys plain. On the right kind of bread (crusty French), the only things that fried...
A Better Bird
It was OK. I tried the new chicken sandwich by Popeye’s – you know, the one causing riots when locations of the national chain...
OMG, the Choices
I’ve never been a fan of picking my own components for a given dish at a restaurant. That’s the biggest reason I eschew chains...
Pork Chop Pit Stop
If you happen to be cruising along FM 1187 for no particular reason, Jorge’s Mexican Restaurant (100 S. Front St., Aledo) makes a great...
Re-Dallasification
What’s up with all of these new Dallas-based restaurants setting up shop in Fort Worth? Sure, many years back, we were basically Dallas Lite,...
