Outback Steakhouse Inc.

Cory Treadway, exec chef of Wynkoop Brewery, on smartphones, fried squirrel and heaven

Cory Treadway Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th Street 303-297-2700 wynkoop.com This is part one of my interview with Cory Treadway, exec chef of the Wynkoop; part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. "I was the first white kid -- the first gringo -- to ever roll egg rolls," ... More >>

Best of Denver 2013 Readers' Poll: The Food & Drink finalists

For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword's Best of Denver, we've split the Best of Denver Readers' Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the vote-getters and then voting again for your favorite bars, restaurants and foods in Denver and Boulder. And the results of th ... More >>

Shaun Motoda, chef of TAG|RAW BAR, on the perfect bite and his obsession with Taco Bell

Shaun Motoda TAG|RAW BAR 1423 Larimer Street 303-996-2685 tagrawbar.com This is part one of my interview with Shaun Motoda, chef de cuisine of TAG|RAW BAR; part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. Shaun Motoda, the chef de cuisine at TAG|RAW BAR, grew up wanting to be an architect. But the ... More >>

Chain Restaurant Consumers' Choice Award winners announced -- and local spots make the list

Technomic Inc. has released its inaugural list of Chain Restaurant Consumers' Choice Award honorees, winners, chosen from 115 fast-food, fast-casual and full-service restaurants, with the winners selected by consumers. So now for the two pressing questions: What, exactly, is Technomic, and which r ... More >>

Five chain-restaurant trends that should continue in 2013

This last year has brought us some terrible chain restaurant trends, including serving up sodium-soaked "healthy" meals; shrinking dessert sizes and charging the same prices; peddling fancy cocktails with more ingredients than a hair-relaxing solution; and restaurants labeling everything "natural." ... More >>

Conquering a fear of fear: Haunted houses really aren't that scary, right?

Since becoming an adult (er, since I started having thoughts about things in a way that seemed adult-like), I've wanted to like haunted houses. I've wanted to like them so bad. It sounds dumb -- desiring to enjoy something as inanely holiday commerce-driven as a haunted house. But I'm fascinated by ... More >>

Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you're DonkeyHotay

Cafe Society dished up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from an Italian hoagie that I got from Fat Jack's, a take-out sandwich joint that bakes its own bread, to a steak dinner from a suburban Outback Steakhouse that was much better than the $40 slab of steer I had last night to a goat c ... More >>

The gluten-free crust at Domino's Pizza is actually gluten-free!

Many things in the food industry are not at all what they appear to be. Things like healthy green salads covered in cheese, bacon bits, croutons and ranch dressing; the servers at TGI Fridays who aren't always thrilled beyond measure to see your asses plopped in their sections; and those "Grapple" ... More >>

Top five seriously nasty things I've found in my food

Yes, someone just found yet another @#$% finger in his %$#@ food -- and this time, it apparently wasn't planted for the purpose of a lawsuit (but I wouldn't be shocked if a lawsuit ensues). Michigan teen Ryan Hart was chowing down on a roast beef sandwich at Arby's when he bit on a "rubbery" piece ... More >>

Beau Green, exec chef of the Denver Zoo, on his new all-Colorado food cart

Beau Green Denver Zoo 2300 Steele Street www.denverzoo.org This is part one of my interview with Beau Green, exec chef of the Denver Zoo. You can read part of our interview in this space tomorrow. It was a juvenile-court judge who forced Beau Green into a kitchen. The 37-year-old chef of the Denve ... More >>

Lucky Pie's Joe Troupe on the woman who wanted her feet soaked -- and dried -- at his restaurant

Joe Troupe Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House 1610 16th Street 303-825-1021 www.luckypiepizza.com This is part one of my interview with Joe Troupe, exec chef of Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House. Part two of our chat will run in this space tomorrow. Unless you count shit on shingles, my mom was not a good co ... More >>

The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver's original kitchen, takes to the web with how-to video series

The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver's onetime kitchen and an erstwhile mobile vegan experience, is known for a lot of things -- dick jokes and anarchist sentiments included -- but gentility is not one of them. This explains why, in the group's new series of cooking videos, the time lapse between pressing ... More >>

The Thunderdome, Occupy Denver's original kitchen, launches video cooking series

The Thunderdome, the original kitchen and symbol of Occupy Denver, has launched no shortage of projects since a frequent police presence encouraged its members to distance themselves from the organization in November. Along with a weekly radio show and three mobile food trucks, the Thunderdome has t ... More >>

Table Mountain Inn's Luke Mewbourn harps on foie gras and Lady Gaga and hails the righteousness of Jim's Burger Haven

Lori Midson​ Luke Mewbourn Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina 1310 Washington Avenue, Golden 303-216-8040 www.tablemountaininn.com This is part one of my interview with Luke Mewbourn, executive chef of Table Mountain Inn Grill & Cantina. Part two of this interview will run tomorrow. Denver ... More >>

Reader: With Brian Laird going to Russo's, things are looking up in the southern suburbs

Lori MidsonThe interior of Russo's Kitchen Tavern..​Yesterday, a reader wondered if the restaurant-packed Berkeley neighborhood in northwest Denver was suffering from too much of a good thing. But the revelation that Brian Laird was heading south to Russo's Kitchen Tavern, one of several r ... More >>

The Daily Beast lambastes the 25 unhealthiest kids meals

Friendly's Mac and Cheese Quesadilla​In solidarity with Michelle Obama's war on childhood obesity, the Daily Beast put together a nice little slideshow about the 25 unhealthiest kids meals in the country. Every gut bomb on the list contains more than 800 calories, but topping the charts was ... More >>

Lenny's on Lincoln offers curbside service

​The staffers at Lenny's Sub Shop at 726 Lincoln Street watch a lot of traffic roll by their windows every day, especially at rush hour, when that traffic rolls very slowly. So what did these enterprising sandwich makers do? They set up a little curbside stand where a Lenny's employee will ha ... More >>

Bernie's brings hot dog heaven to Highlands Ranch

Lori Midson With any luck, the addition of Bernie's Hot Dog Co., an independent joint located at 1601 Mayberry in the Highlands Ranch Town Center, will convince all those Land Rover-owning suburbanites who reside within the chain-ganged sprawl to stop spending their bonuses at Chili's and Outback S ... More >>

Figgy's Manhattan at Steuben's

Best of Denver Winners from 1998

Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill

Randy Schoch delivers Chinese treats with an American twist.

Sweet Basil Gin Rickey

Capital Grille

Yak to the Future

After a century, the Buckhorn Exchange is still pleased to meat you.

Club Scout

Moscow Underground

Drink of the Week

Washington Apple Martini

Bite Me

Just Ask Me

Drunk of the Week

Outback Steakhouse

Bite Me

Saints and Sinners

Slice of Life

Summer in the City

Shopping around for metro Denver's top ten attractions for tourists -- and locals.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Consumed

Wheat Out

Net Loss

Roy's Cherry Creek is beginning to show its age.

You Must Remember This

Holy smokes! Only those with burning ambition will survive the 2002 Year in Review quiz.

Paint the Town

Maruti Narayan's food brushes up against greatness. Too bad no one's there to eat it.

Country Cookin'

Charity begins at home.

Be There. Aloha.

Roy's Cherry Creek brings the ohana spirit to Denver.

Mouthing Off