Hodad’s: Classic Hamburger Oasis Near Ocean Beach
Hodad is a surf term for a person who hangs out at the beach with a nice board but doesn’t know how to surf. Thankfully, none of that posturing exists at the Ocean Beach...
Get Your Burger Fix in Silver Lake
Paul Joo and wife Celestine opened The Fix on September 25 in the former Silver Lake home of BBG Café. Paul’s cousin owns Pearl’s Deluxe Burgers in San Francisco, and he worked with her...
Pie ‘N Burger: A Coffee Shop Combo Worthy of Caltech
The Apple Pan in Westwood is the old school burger spot that gets all the hype, which is no surprise given the Westside bias in L.A. food coverage. Don’t get me wrong. It’s worth...
8 oz. Burger Bar: Ambitious Comfort Food and Craft Beer on Melrose [CLOSED]
The dark-as-night Table 8 redesign didn’t work out according to plan, so Chef Govind Armstrong and business partners Chris Heyman and Josh Woodward decided to relocate their market-driven Los Angeles restaurant down Melrose Avenue....
Le Tub: Kooky Hollywood Hamburger Hub by the Intracoastal
In 2005, GQ food writer Alan Richman voted this Broward County saloon #1 on his nationwide list of “The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die.” Soon after, O magazine editor Gayle King...
Squeeze Inn: Unique Sacramento Burgers and a Sense of Humor
Ever since I learned about this 30-year-old Sacramento burger shack on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show, “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” I’ve craved the Squeeze Inn‘s unique burger. Driving to San Francisco, I took a...
