Eats
Home Eats
My Name Is Chow, Baby
Hot off the internet, from a page that contains big Hebrew letters so it must be accurate: "It is customary during the period before...
Bore Mi
There’s a lot to love about Mi Cocinita. Killer patio included, this Tex-Mex eatery housed in what used to be a garage apartment is...
Shiny Happy Eaters
Chow, Baby likes shiny things but hates Denny's, so it was glad to see a certain gleaming pre-fab building change ownership a few months...
Great Escape
The West Side is full of Euro-influenced bistros: La Piazza, Escargot, Saint-Emilion, Bella West. Thing is, they’re all a little — how you say?...
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Here's a question (notice Chow, Baby didn't say it was a good question): When you were a little kid, what did you imagine lunchtime...
Soul in Six
Drew Thomas first opened his greasy spoon almost 20 years ago, in Forest Hill, where his smothered pork chops and spicy fried catfish were...
Being and Munchingness
Chow, Baby's father used to play a mind game he called Argentina. He'd begin it with "Name a country that starts with A." His...
From Russia With Love
Though the proprietors of Taste of Europe are from Russia, they don’t seem to have any trouble getting the hang of this capitalism thing....
The Blame Game
One might think, given how picky Chow, Baby can be, that it requests kitchen do-overs all the time. But no, not so much. A...
Food
Since her childhood, Donatella Trotti has earned her keep in the kitchen. In post-war Varese, Italy, where Trotti was born and raised, she and...
