Chow Restaurant - Lafayette

Pros: Good food, staff, service at moderate prices
Cons: Wish it were closer to home; can be noisy

Lafayette, CA is an upscale bedroom community nestled in the rolling hills along Hwy 24 in the East Bay are of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is very rural in its setting with an odd mix of old an new architecture, eclectic shops and a "small town ...

Pros: Good food. Good service.
Cons: Noisy, crowded, small portions, high prices.

I went to Chow Restaurant in Lafayette for lunch with a group of friends. One of my friends had suggested we go there. She told me to expect large portions and good food. When we arrived, Chow was packed and very noisy. My first thought was that this ...

Pros: a similar pizza at Pizza Antiga (also in Lafayette) is far superior
Cons: the cobbler more than made up. The service: superficially polite.

Date: Feb.28.08 @ 5.00pm
I was at the restaurant for an early dinner … a wise choice as it got really busy soon after! I ordered a small Fennel sausage pizza and the Apple Cranberry Cobbler for Dessert.
In my experience (as a compulsive gourmet diner) was that a similar pizza at Pizza Antiga (also in Lafayette) is far superior, but the cobbler more than made up for the lack of quality of the pizza.
The service: superficially polite.
The cost of the meal: Not bad!