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Off to Palio’s

Off to Palio’sIn the northwestern Italian city of Siena, the Palio is a twice-yearly horse race with religious connotations. In the North Texas cities of Mansfield and Fort Worth, Palio’s is a pizza joint with some unusual features. The family-owned restaurants offer a gluten-free crust option — scandalous for most pizza lovers but useful for those of us who have spent most of the last decade just eating the toppings off our pizza pies. There’s also a whole-wheat-crust option, and both restaurants, pleasantly, are BYOB, which is about as rare in the 817 as a twice-yearly horse race.
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If Tacos Could Talk

If Tacos Could TalkChow, Baby didn’t really — maybe a little bit, but not really — expect its Taco Bell Cantino Tacos ($1.49 each) lime segments to talk out loud , like on the commerc...
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Rooster, Delaney’s Work

Rooster, Delaney’s Work Is there a spate of new bars that happen to have good eats? Or is this phenomenon really a spate of new restaurants conveniently doubling as bars? Fort Worth is...
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Ruining the Curve

Whew, Chow, Baby has finally cleared one of its Places to Eat sublists: the Dallas-wannabe West 7th development , where half a dozen restaurants have opened in the...
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Overflowing Up North

Overflowing Up NorthNorth Fort Worth is a boomtown. Seemingly every other week, another new restaurant, pizza joint, fro-yo, or smoothie place pops up. Surprisingly, a majority of ...
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Going Up the Country

Going Up the Country It gives you one of those Twilight Zone feelings, driving through architecturally undistinguished Benbrook and then through a bunch of nothing to wind up at a pret...
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Rock Bottom’s Up

Rock Bottom’s UpOn Bluebonnet Circle in the space formerly occupied by Ocean Rock, a popular seafood restaurant, comes Rock Bottom Bar and Grill . The menu is heavy on fish (most...
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Grumpole at the Bailey

Grumpole at the Bailey According to the USDA, the food price index for “food away from home” (that is, dining at restaurants) increased 6.4 percent in 2008 and 0.5 percent in 2009; it’s...
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Boo-Ray’s Ragin’ Cajun

Boo-Ray’s Ragin’ CajunLouisiana cooking isn’t completely foreign to Fort Worth, but restaurants specializing in Cajun cuisine here can probably be counted on one hand. All of them al...
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If Tacos Could Talk

If Tacos Could Talk Chow, Baby didn’t really — maybe a little bit, but not really — expect its Taco Bell Cantino Tacos ($1.49 each) lime segments to talk out loud , like on the commerc...
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Funkytown and First Friday: Alive

Funkytown and First Friday: Alive From 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Friday at the Where House (2510 Hemphill St. on the South Side), the Funkytown Fall Festival will take place, featuring (in order of appearance...
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One Sharp Machete

One Sharp Machete Before Machete was a real movie, it was a fake movie. For their 2007 double-bill Grindhouse , Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino had four trailers created for n...
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Clowns and Flags

To the editor: In his article, “Bigots’ Last Stand,” writer E. R. Bills obviously implies that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism. He groups it with the ...
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