Heidi Knapp Rinella

Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.

At happy hour one evening last week, Gordon Biersch on Paradise Road was packed.

It has, as you know, become a widespread practice for Mexican restaurants in this country to start meals with a basket of chips and a bowl (or two or three) of salsa and/or bean dip — so widespread, in fact, that the practice actually has started to spread to Mexico, if you’re interested in a little bit of coals-to-Newcastle trivia.