Timberline Steaks & Grille — Restaurant in Denver

Had to stay a while and grab some brunch at 7:11 am. By 7:13 got seated watching outside. Server recommended the bar but I didn't want it this time. Ordered my food by 7:17 when the server, Mitas, came by. I wasn't sitting long. The previous hostess gave me a menu and was already ready to order.

** Food is expensive here. What the menu lists is what you get. Breakfast items do not come with toast or eggs.

Water smells like seaweed here. I'm not sure what happened. Maybe I got a dirty cup or the water line is contaminated but the water smells like seaweed. Be careful with the water here. I think bottles water would fix this issue here. **

Food came out by 7:24. I ordered pancakes and two extra eggs. Again you do not get eggs and toast with breakfast items. They are a separate item.

Spent 22.32 on everything. Added an extra tip.

Cook did eggs over easy and it definitely got plated fast. The oil was still on the plate and left a bit runny underneath. Photo included.

Pancakes were plated fast and definitely had a bit of a chew to them. Tells me these pancakes were not made fresh and came from a vacuum sealed package. You can tell because they are just too perfect. Pancakes are not supposed to be chewy, they are supposed to be more cake like. Unfortunately these were not made fresh. If they are using a pancake cooking machine then the oil on the cast iron needs to be cleaned, or the cast iron needs to be changed out. It's making the pancakes too rubbery.

Sausage links came out fine. You can tell they came in a package and we're just warmed up. They were hot enough but the taste gave it away. Cook did just fine as this is a short order restaurant but there are definitely too many short cuts happening in the background. Mostly coming from cleaning and the short cuts in cooking. Otherwise the team members here are friendly and nice. They have the service down. It's just the water smelling like seaweed as I went to drink it that left me thinking this place isn't clean enough.

I left detailed information for this establishment to improve their product. This is not flame...

If you walk out and come back with a valid ID, the bar keep might have an attitude and refuse to serve you. For the record, being irritated does not equal intoxicated.

Backstory: Wrapped up a weekend of coaching high level youth sports, and I arrive to this location while waiting for my flight. All a girl wants is her FIRST beer of the day. The bar keep takes my carry permit away, and then comes back saying it’s not appropriate form of ID to get a beer. Never in my life have I been told I can’t use this issued ID for a beverage. Naturally, I’m irritated and ask why: she answers the question and I say okay I’ll just have water. Next, she says “actually you can’t sit at the bar.” I immediately get up and leave the friends I was with. (Not once did I engage in any form of loud vocals, cussing, yelling, arguing, or anything of publicly inappropriate behavior.) I go all the way across the airport to get my license, then I come back. I sit down next to my friends, she takes my ID away to run it. She then came back with a water, and said “because of the earlier moment, I am not going to serve you since you seem intoxicated.” At this point I start laughing and ask if she was being serious and if she thought I was actually intoxicated. She says sorry, but I’m more than welcome to drink water, eat, and sit here. So naturally, I stay and drink my lovely water. Had I known not one of the four people working the area would ask me for a water refill or if I’d like to order food….I would have left. This bar keep needs to mature a bit and learn to serve people even if they are irritated with her actions. Under no circumstances would a reasonable person think I was intoxicated in those two moments. Unfortunately, this bar keep knows her best action to “make even” with a customer, is to rely on state law allowing her to not serve apparently intoxicated people. What a way to end a long weekend, with over an hour flight delay. Moral of the story, you have to treat the bar keep like your Grandmother, other wise she’s going to be a soft mufa bot and refuse service and refuse to ask you...

Hi first time I dined here the trout almondine was SO delicious and I would have left 5 stars. But going back yesterday (between flights), the same dish was tasting so bland I almost wondered if it was the same place. Then realized- it's because there are no almonds! Asked and they were out of them. Pretty disappointing ... And so I mentioned I should get a discount... To which the waiter "counter-offered" offering me free soup or something. I'm pretty easy going so I said ok give me rice please (which really should come with it anyways, but timberline is closer to an ala carte restaurant). My hubby wasn't so easy going (partly because of the pretty small portions he received himself there) , so he brought up the subject again with the waiter, saying I should have been told ahead if the trout almondine wasn't going to be trout almondine, and really I should have been discounted as requested. I sympathize a bit because I just don't think the waiter know normal protocols for this kind of thing (and also he'd been very nice earlier finding me a place to plug in my phone), but he was unwillingly And... To make it only worse, asked my husband if he wanted a dessert and so my husband said ok thinking it was going to be free to make up for the bad experience- but in fact he was going to charge for it! So he said no. And honestly don't know if I'd eat here again (or certainly ask first before ordering). I still left nearly a 15% tip because I normally tip 25% and part of the service was good, but timberline should give better training to...