Unnatural Appetites
Did you know there are 2,847,632 restaurants in Tarrant County? Chow, Baby completely made that number up (obviously), but that's what it seems like...
Playing for Low Steaks
Here’s the composite feedback on last week’s column: “That’s a neat trick, poking your thumb muscle as a guide to whether your steak is...
Pork Ribs Smoking o’er an Enclosed Fire
Chow, Baby recently broke a proud tradition of avoiding malls during the holidays. Until last week, it had been five years since I’d set...
A Parent’s Guide to Homebrewing
Parents of teenagers: Your precocious little scamps are going to imbibe Mötley Crüe-levels of beer at many points throughout their formative years. If teens...
White Privilege Taco Binge
It strikes me as pretentious and white-privilege-y to say that I “found” a great place to get tacos, because “found” is usually code for...
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...
Texas Mission Trail
Chow, Baby’s mission and focus are ill-defined at best, but every so often it feels the need to get back to the Texas basics....
Pizza Pho Everyone
Have you heard the one about the food critic who went to the pho restaurant and filled up on pizza?
I recently visited a new...
Rolling with Hao Tran
Not every summer meal has to involve dead mammals scorched over an open flame. Sometimes it’s nice to dine on something light and cool,...
Holding Out Hope on Hulen
It wasn’t so long ago that the area between the Vickery Boulevard bridge and Bellaire Drive, which folks once thought of as Cullen Davis’...
