107 West is a great success story in the upper west side neighborhood of manhattan. The food is consistently good, and the menu just varied enough to keep you interested. In fact, the fried chicken beats its competition at almost all the southern-food meccas up here. The chicken wings with blue-cheese dipping sauce, tender fried calamari that isn’t oily, and crisp salads are all reliable. There’s damn good chicken-sausage-and-shellfish-packed jambalaya, and blackened catfish too. The ice-cream mocha mud pie is irresistible, and the macadamia apple crisp is a close second. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld