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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

Grand Entrance

Secret Garden

You Gots to Chill

Margaritaville

Eats

Eats

Can’t Touch This

Writing a weekly column nearly two weeks ahead brings on a jet-lag-like disorientation. This being its first column of 2008, Chow, Baby should be...

Dive In

It seems that Dan's Seafood, a scrappy little neighborhood joint just north of I-20, is determined to make you break at least one of...

Hibachi Botchy

Chow, Baby was in a great mood Friday night, having just achieved a new high score in a game it maturely calls Hobby Slobby:...

Tough but Sweet

Around the intersection of East Allen Avenue and Mississippi Street is the heart of what may be one of Fort Worth's toughest neighborhoods, Stop-Six....

Baby Wrote You an Xmas Letter

Dear Friends and Family,We had some sadness and some gladness this year. The sadness, of course, is that some of Chow, Baby's faves closed...

J-Walk on Down

Any diner with a menu that ranges from omelets to burgers and from Chinese food to Thai specialties has got to be suspect. The...

Planning Way Ahead

A guilt-ridden Chow, Baby decided to tackle its "Places Readers Have Generously Alerted Me to, and I've Written Them Back with 'Thanks a Lot,...

Turn-a-lot

There’s a tall, twinkling Christmas tree in the middle of the dimly lit dining room of Portofino Ristorante in Arlington. It reaches from floor to...

Shadows and Mirrors

Chow, Baby's psychotherapist father did his children a great disservice by teaching us, early on, about Jung's shadow theory. Being five at the time,...

The Great Light North

Now’s definitely not the time to get all calorie-conscious. ’Tis the season to be jolly, and by “jolly,” we mean “fat” and/or “pleasantly plump.” The...