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Monday, March 30, 2026

The Zest List

Zest It Up

A Little Jiggle

Talking ’bout Pound Cake

Eats

Eats

Manly

Los Hombres Mexican Café sits in the spot where Tunero Mexican Cuisine used to be. It's on an enviable corner near the southern end...

Better Than a Sharp Stick in Your Eye

Man, this new color-coded, sortable Places to Eat List rocks. Chow, Baby, who is building a new bookcase even though it's not really allowed...

Relish-ing the Chance

For years, Fort Worth sisters Adrea Deems and Shelley Wright cooked, packaged, and distributed by hand a holiday cranberry relish that made friends and...

The Lights are Brighter

Chow, Baby has always accepted the premise that "atmosphere" (however you reckon it: décor, lighting, music volume) counts a lot toward the dining experience....

Round Ones

Was it really seven years ago -- an eon in restaurant years -- that my oldest daughter had her wedding reception in the very...

Color Me Hungry

As everyone who does things knows, sometimes you have too many things to do. In such cases you could, theoretically, buckle down and tackle...

Off to the Races

Chow, Baby isn't sure which is more surprising: that there's such a thing as a horse masseuse, or that Chow, Baby has lived in...

Gravitational Pull

The Blue Moon Café is near Eagle Mountain Lake and sits in a space that formerly housed the Possum Lodge barbecue café/store/gas station. Once...

New ‘Cue

At first sight, Roscoe's Smokehouse in Burleson seemed to violate so many rules of Texas barbecue that I almost didn't go in. The lawn...

Lunch with the Look-Alikes

Chow, Baby has long wanted to do an occasional series called "Lunch with the Stars," in which we would find out if people who...