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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

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Secret Garden

You Gots to Chill

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Eats

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....

Café Brazil: Trad Diner Goodness

Café Brazil is not one of those churrascarias, where sultry, gaucho-clad waiters serve meat from large sticks. The distinction is important. This Fort Worth...

Smashburger:

This week we revisit the concept of added burger juice! This is the phenomenon whereby burger places overcook their meat, then compensate for the...

Viet-Joe Cajun

The Vietnamese owners of Cajun Café on Cooper Street near UTA had another location nearby on Pioneer Parkway. A few months ago, the owners...

Frenchy II: Revenge of the Brie

INTERIOR FANCY-FRENCHY BISTRO — DAY  — TABLE BY THE WINDOW CHOW, BABY and THE BELOVED are brunching at SAPRISTI (2418 Forest Park Blvd.), a cozy...

Loosen Up at Buck n’ Loons

“Never trust a skinny cook.” That old saying seems to be the motto at Arlington’s Buck n’ Loons, and, although I didn’t actually see...

Relationship Issues

A month ago, So 7 Bistro chef/owner Jean Michel Sakouhi announced that he was downscaling his fancy-Frenchy menu and rebranding as So 7 Bar...

Jesus BBQ: Bless You

Jesus BBQ is a perfect metaphor for what’s going on in the area around South Main Street and Rosedale Avenue. The little diner is...

The Lasagna Cure

You know what’s a drag? Waking up with a headache, queasy stomach, and overpowering thirst — even when you didn’t have a single drink...

Shaw’s Burgers, Shakes, and More

It’s been no secret that David Shaw and Ann Diakas-Shaw, co-owners of Shaw’s Burgers and Shakes on the Near South Side, have had a...