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Pie n’ Burger

The burgers here come jacketed in white paper and are compact enough to remain intact through three-quarters of their life — they tend to be as genteel as the Pasadena neighborhood, these hamburgers, only a distant relation to the greasy monsters that explode into pungent goop. Then there are pies: ultrasweet pecan pies, custardy coconut creams with marshmallow topping, banana creams oozing from beneath tall lashings of meringue, gummy fresh-strawberry pies and classic canned-cherry pies — none of them great, but the ideal conclusion to a genteel hamburger lunch. 913 E. California Blvd., Pasadena; (626) 795-1123. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lunch for two, food only, $10–$15. Beer and wine. Takeout. Cash only.

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Category: Restaurant > American

Region: Pasadena and vicinity

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The Pines

The Pines is the kind of place where the waitresses joke about being picketed by Weight Watchers: Imagine a biscuit that comes automatically blanketed with a luscious cream gravy that must be the stuff of every cowboy’s dream. Or visualize an enormous oval restaurant plate hidden by a golden oval pancake half an inch thick; sliding across the surface of the pancake, a robin’s egg of melting butter leaves a salty trail; next to the plate is a little bowl of fresh tomato salsa, juicy in the Central California manner rather than spicy, and another of chopped jalapeño peppers. (Called a tortilla cake — the batter is enriched with masa, cornmeal and ground hominy — this pancake tastes the way you’ve always wanted a tortilla to taste, warm and soft and sweet as corn, fragrant, slightly burnt around the edges.) Or envision a three-quarter-pound Pine Burger, the hugest thing, bigger in diameter than some asteroids, the best conceivable version of a coffee-shop hamburger. Got the picture? Good. Now hope you saved room for the raisin pie. 4343 Pearblossom Hwy., Palmdale; (805) 285-0455. Open daily 7 a.m.–2 p.m. Breakfast for two, $8–$15. No alcohol. Cash only.