Restaurants

Because Everyone’s Doing It: Red Robin Testing $15 Kobe Beef Burger

January 22, 2013 // 7:09 pm

Looks like Red Robin has decided to kick their meat game up a notch by attempting to introduce high-quality burgers in 2013. The restaurant chain has begun developing Kobe beef (and possibly bison) hamburgers that will hit menus across America in the second half of the year.

This is good…

Hooters Gets a New, Classy Look (Because That’s What Really Matters)

January 22, 2013 // 3:36 pm

When you think Hooters, you don’t exactly think “classy.” You think, “Damn, I get wait to grab a beer and grab some wings.” Right.

This French Restaurant Cooks Actual Dirt & Charges You $110 To Eat It

January 22, 2013 // 6:00 am

I’m sorry but if you placed a shot of dirt soup (see above) in front of me, I would politely excuse myself from the table  and never turn back. Really now, there are dishes that test the boundaries of food in fabulous ways — Sriracha Ice Cream…

Disney California Adventure Features Increased Offerings of Local Brews

December 15, 2012 // 4:09 pm

Did you need another reason to visit California Adventure beyond the recent opening of Cars Land and Starbucks on the new Buena Vista Street? Well, if you’re a beer lover (and frankly, who’s not?), Disney is giving you just another reason to visit, with offerings of locally crafted beer…

Grab a Hobbity Drink at the Green Dragon (Now Open to the Public)

December 12, 2012 // 5:40 pm

LOTR fans can revel in the knowledge that the Green Dragon pub used in The Hobbit movie set is now open to public. Here’s your chance to kick back and get sloshed just like Frodo, Pippin, Sam and Merry before they set off on their wild goose chase for…

Denny’s With Wedding Chapel – When You Have to Elope and Everywhere Else is Closed

December 5, 2012 // 4:39 pm

Mega-chains do well to customize their locations to the local area where they reside. I remember seeing local high school sports memorabilia in an Applebee’s at a (very) young age and special murals honoring the local surf scene run throughout my local Trader Joe’s and Albertsons.

Denny’s new flagship…

Chicken Skin, the New Foodie Trend?

December 4, 2012 // 9:22 pm

Be honest: the best part of the chicken is the skin. Forget about the white meat or the dark meat, breast piece or thigh piece: that unctuous, fatty piece of poultry flesh is what my family fights over at the dinner table. My brother likes to devour it right…

‘Armageddon Burger’ Prepares You for Mayan Doomsday With a Bacon Meatloaf Patty

December 1, 2012 // 5:08 am

Southern California-based burger chain Slater’s 50/50 is at it again, and this time with a burger of apocalyptic proportions.

In honor of the Mayan’s earth-destroying gift to us, Slater’s 50/50 (the proud creators of the half-ground bacon, half-ground beef patty) introduced the Armageddon Burger as its burger of the…