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Subject: Full Service Restaurants

  • No, It's Not the Plaza Nazis

    April 27, 2007
  • I'm No Business Writer, But I Loves Me Some Pancakes

    July 17, 2007
  • Breaking News: Smoking Ban on Hold!

    June 4, 2008
  • Servers Fight Back Against Cheapskate Chili's

    July 16, 2008
  • The Unwanted Girl Next Door

    August 19, 2008
  • Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 8/19

    August 19, 2008
  • Mouthing Off

    July 27, 2000
  • A Capital Grille Offense

    March 15, 2001
  • Best Steak

    October 18, 2001
  • Best Calamari

    October 18, 2001
  • Grounds for Success

    December 27, 2001
  • Check, Please

    August 15, 2002
  • Best Place to Blow a Small Fortune

    October 17, 2002
  • Best Steak

    October 17, 2002
  • Best-Looking Chef

    October 17, 2002
  • Best-Looking Waiters

    October 17, 2002
  • Best Waitress

    October 17, 2002
  • Best Waiter

    October 17, 2002
  • Macaroni Grill cuisine...to make at home

    There's only one Romano's Macaroni Grill in the Kansas City metro: at 9292 Metcalf in Overland Park. The popular Italian restaurant chain, owned by by conglomerate Brinker International (Chili's, On the Border Mexican Grill), has a bigger presence in St. Louis, where there are five locations. My friend Bob loves the restaurant's Chicken Marsala, which is made with chicken sauteed in sweet marsala wine, roasted garlic and portobello mushrooms served over cappellini pasta. A single

    February 5, 2009
  • IHOP flips another executive off the griddle

    California-based DineEquity Inc., which owns the IHOP and Kansas City-based Applebee's restaurant chains, announced that Desmond Hague, the president of the 51-year-old national pancake chain formerly known as International House of Pancakes is, in a matter of speaking, getting flipped out of the corporation. Hague is officially retiring next week with, according to DineEquity, "the intent of pursuing a chief executive officer position at another company." As today's story by Reuters report

    February 12, 2009
  • Best Snobby New York Commentary on a Kansas City Export

    October 9, 2003
  • Union Specific

    October 30, 2003
  • Worden Up

    February 12, 2004
  • Counter Intelligence

    June 24, 2004
  • Spin the Bottle

    September 23, 2004
  • Best Bitched-About Restaurant We Really Like

    October 7, 2004
  • Word of Mouth

    April 28, 2005
  • The Monster Hash

    May 5, 2005
  • A Chili's Effect

    July 21, 2005
  • Shrimp Vote

    September 22, 2005
  • Darden Restaurants finally post calorie information online

    Flckr: William HartzWhile nutritional information must be present on packaged food and beverages, until recently there were no laws requiring restaurant chains to disclose the same information. Most chains released information voluntarily but several did not. Darden Restaurants, the holding company for Olive Garden and Red Lobster, gave out virtually no nutritional information. Quietly, it's finally changed that policy.

    March 30, 2009
  • Copy Cat

    December 21, 2006
  • Downtown, Unchained

    January 4, 2007
  • Tellin' It Like It Is

    December 4, 2008
  • You know the economy’s bad when business is down at Ryan’s

    October 16, 2008
  • So Long, Iliki

    Surrounded by the Northland's boom, the Iliki Café's owners close up shop to create a boom of their own.

    December 14, 2006
  • KC Disasterpiece

    Barbecue baron Rich Davis and his saucy sons have left plenty of people feeling burned.

    July 21, 2005
  • Ted's Spread

    Ted Turner stakes out his territory in Wyandotte County.

    January 13, 2005
  • Capital Spending

    Our food critic earned some culinary Capital, and now he intends to spend it.

    December 30, 2004
  • Lacuna Coil

    Wednesday, December 3, at the Hurricane.

    November 27, 2003
  • Pizza Haute

    California Pizza Kitchen has delusions of grandeur, but it's really just another pizza joint.

    August 14, 2003
  • Chain Change

    Pizzeria Uno caves into pressure from the nearby California Pizza Kitchen.

    August 14, 2003
  • House of Toys

    P.F. Chang's continues to reign as a Plaza hot spot.

    November 21, 2002
  • Stock Brokers

    It's a short ride from Western Sizzlin' to the LongHorn Steakhouse.

    November 9, 2000
  • $5 is the new black

    First it was Subway with its $5 foot-longs and annoying jingles to match. Then Quizno's followed with a copycat $5 menu before getting even more aggressive with a $4 sub. After that, the floodgates opened and Boston Market and Shoney's tried $5 specials. Now T.G.I. Friday's joins the list.For the 31 days of May, 16 sandwiches and salads at the fast-casual chain will be just five bones. That's not just lunch but the dinner price, too. Sandwiches include the California chicken club, the barbecued

    April 28, 2009
  • Calories coming soon to a menu near you

    Recently, Maine became the third state to enact a calories-on-menu law for restaurant chains. Similar bills have been adopted in such large cities as New York, Philadelphia and Seattle. The restaurant industry has loudly protested these bills -- and sometimes made itself look foolish. Such as when Dunkin' Donuts said that putting calories on its menu would make the type too small only to have the New York Health Department redesign the menu showing the chain could easily use a larger, easy-to-re

    June 16, 2009
  • Best Barbecue 2008 -- South: Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue

    January 8, 2009
  • Eat and Roll

    November 20, 2008
  • When TGI Fridays used to be cool

    ​When I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was a dearth of bars open past midnight. This is often the reason that nobody gets into too much trouble after a night of drinking in Boston -- you're home by the time you would normally be up to no good. But there was one bar that was open until 1 a.m. and that was the bar at TGI Fridays. With oversized mugs and free peanuts -- it was a perfectly functional bar, however, it was definitely not cool. This is not where singles would go to meet and

    September 2, 2009
  • When TGI Fridays was cool

    ​When I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, few bars were open past midnight. Not many people got into trouble after a night of drinking -- we were home by the time we'd have otherwise been up to no good. But there was one bar that was open until 1 a.m. and that was the bar at TGI Fridays. With oversized mugs and free peanuts, it was a perfectly functional bar even though it was definitely not cool. This was not where singles would go to meet; it would not be the site of a memorable evening. Th

    September 3, 2009