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Café Hana Blooms

The Japanese restaurant and sushi bar Café Hana in South Arlington occupies a strip-mall space but is still a classy, atmospheric setting for a...

Happy Bubbles to Me

Birthdays are always a little bittersweet for Chow, Baby. On the one hand, I’m a year older, and another year has passed in which...

Happy Bubbles to Me

Birthdays are always a little bittersweet for Chow, Baby. On the one hand, I’m a year older, and another year has passed in which...

Good Day, Sleepyhead

I love all the old breakfast favorites: eggs, sausage, pancakes, French toast, bacon. I just never eat them for breakfast. Who wants to start...

First Church of Maple

What did we do on Sundays before brunch? Yes, football and church (for non-heathens), but Chow, Baby (a dyed-in-the-wool heathen) once considered it mostly...

Midori Sushi Experiments

Does sushi have to be served in a fabulous, fancy, downtown restaurant to be good? Midori Sushi’s second location, this one near DFW International...

Lift the Spell: Eat at Tie’s

Everybody knows them: the addresses that seem to carry some curse, where restaurants and bars go to die. There’s one over on Belknap Street...

Thai Steak House: Yum

Here’s a sign of great service: The owner of a recently opened restaurant on a busy Bedford freeway spends long minutes on the phone...

Yawn-N-Out

Some time ago, an out-of-town houseguest asked me about Whataburger. “It’s amazing,” I told her. “You will never be so satisfied by a burger...

Scampi’s Cove: A Lakeside Grill

I’ve gotta confess: I thought Scampi’s Cove was going to be an Italian restaurant. After all, Scampi’s (the erstwhile landlocked location) used to be...