Grand Opening at The Real Chow Baby

Tonight was the official Grand Opening Party at The Real Chow Baby, and Steakhead was one of the lucky ones to receive an invitation. By all accounts, owner Mike Blum has to be pleased. Valet parking was full by 10pm, and it was standing room only of good-looking twenty and thirty-somethings sampling the sake, enjoying various munchies, checking out the Mongolian Grill in full operation and hanging to the tunes of the house DJ. It was as if the usual weekend scene at Compound had shifted for the night around the corner to Chow Baby's 11th and Howell Mill address. Panoz Motor Sports even had one of their American Le Mans cars adorned with the Chow Baby logo parked outside. If creating a scene in the trendy Westside location was his intention, Blum succeeded. In any event, Chow Baby continues to be one the good new stories in intown dining in 2005