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Burger Week 2013 at The Oinkster: Doritos Bell Beefer, Thrilla From Manila More!

It's a burger throwdown for restaurant and diners, with the return of The Oinkster's Burger Week from Monday, June 3 to Sunday, June 9. While the slow fast food joint faces off with popular flavor profiles, customers will have the seven-day "Burger Challenge" to contend with. Around the same time l ... More >>

Opening Soon: A Burger Round-Up

Can Los Angeles be considered an unofficial burger capital of the U.S.? It wouldn't be a tough argument to make. We have plenty of burger joints: Apple Pan, Hawkins House of Burgers, In-N-Out, Father's Office, Rick's, Pie'n'Burger, and Earlez Grille, to name a handful. Next week, two burger joints - ... More >>

Lynsi Torres, America's Youngest Female Billionaire, Is L.A In-N-Out Heir

Meet America's youngest billionaire. She lives in a $17.4 million home in the San Gabriel Valley foothill community of Bradbury. She drag races in area NHRA events. She's reportedly only 30. And she doesn't have a college degree. She's Lynsi Torres, and ...

5 Reasons to Drive to Santa Barbara for Film Feast

This week, movie folk -- both celebrities and cinephiles -- will flock 95 miles north to the 28th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Running in conjunction with the festival is Film Feast. In its third year, Film Feast is not your ordinary restaurant week. There's a catch: All of th ... More >>

Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam

As many Angelenos probably already know, Huell Howser died Sunday night at the age of 67. In memoriam, we thought we'd channel-surf through some episodes of Howser's KCET series California's Gold, which have covered myriad subjects over the course of the beloved reporter's long career -- Howser onl ... More >>

L.A. Craft Beer Crawl Survival Guide: See 1,999 of You There

Tickets have just sold out for this Saturday's 3rd Annual L.A. Craft Beer Crawl. With unlimited tastings of over 70 brews, 2,000 people in attendance, and temperatures finally retreating to the low 80's, it promises to be L.A.'s most lively celebration of beer yet. The creative product of Cedd Moses ... More >>

Q & A with Adam Richman: Heartbreak, His Food Journal L.A. Food Profundity

Adam Richman spends the first several minutes of our interview discussing the best way to get places in L.A., as most Angelenos do. He can't count himself one anymore, but he used to live here, coincidentally, one block from this writer's current residence. Now, however, Richman is a citizen of the ... More >>

The Oinkster's Burger Week Returns: White Castle Sliders, Big Macs Sourdough Jacks

From June 4 through June 10, Andre Guerrero's retrofied pastrami and burger shack in Eagle Rock will host round two of it's popular Burger Week, which features a burger-a-day tribute to some of America's cherished cheeseburgers re-engineered by the bun 'n' patty architects in The Oinkster kitchen. ... More >>

El Prez Saw a Liquor Store Go Up In Flames

[Editor's note: All this week West Coast Sound is speaking with rappers and writers whose work has been influenced by the L.A. riots, to coincide with their 20th anniversary on April 29.] South L.A.-raised rapper El Prez is all about the city. He named one of his albums Animal Style! after the In-N ... More >>

Waiter-Free Dining? Umami Expands to the Grove and Westwood With "U-Mini"

Adam Fleischman is a busy man with seven Umami locations throughout California, the launch of Umamicatessen downtown and recent announcements of the chain's expansion to Westwood (this summer) and the Grove. With the restaurateur's roots already established in Westwood Village, 800 Degrees opened ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Westfield Culver City Food Court

Short Order: The Late Amy Pressman's Burger Obsession Stays Alive

If you've been around the back of the Farmers Market lately, you've probably noticed an odd glass appendage, and the funk of charred meat, and a waxing throng whose average age seems at least 20 years younger than the one next door at Du-Par's, a patio you'd swear didn't exist last week, and a fligh ... More >>

Five Guys: Coming to Miracle Mile, Westwood

Five Guys Burgers and Fries continues its rapid westward expansion, moving from outlying suburbs to denser Los Angeles neighborhoods, with new locations planned for Miracle Mile and Westwood. Though it serves much cheaper burgers at a much lower price point, the Miracle Mile Five Guys at 5500 Wilsh ... More >>

WTF: Whittier Narrows to Be Converted Into $22 Million Museum for Kids, Possibly Sponsored by -- and Named After -- Miller Beer

PHOTO BY TED SOQUISoon-to-be Beer River?​The original proposal was weird enough: Spend $22 million to erect a water museum atop a perfectly lovely strip of wetlands -- one of the only natural wildlife sanctuaries left in Los Angeles County (near the intersection of the 605 and 60 freeways in S ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: The Eternal Dilemma of LAX Food

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: Do you have a lunch recommendation near LAX? I'm not opposed to In-N-Out, just looking for other options. --Evan Cohen, via Facebook

Another Angel Descends on Our City: Taylor Swift's Moving In?

Taylor Swift​"Well, the first thing you know Taylor Swift's a millionaire, Kinfolk said, 'Tay move away from there' Said, 'Californy is the place you ought to be' So she loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimmin' pools, country music stars." We only poke very gent ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/4-4/8

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Somebody had a great week once in Provence, and wants the Meatpacking District -- and the swingers at the Melrose Place sequel -- to be as happy as he or she was." First Bite: Fig & Olive, and Mor ... More >>

Q & A with Adam Fleischman of Umami Burger, Part 1: The 5th Taste, In-N-Out The Quest for Global Domination

photo courtesy of Adam FleischmanAdam Fleischman​ Given that we're deep into Los Angeles' full-blown Golden Burger Age, with the evidence amply documented on this site, it's almost hard to remember a time before it. The burger landscape was just on its way to becoming fully fleshed out (pun in ... More >>

'Saxophone Superstar' Sergio Flores Terrorizes Mall Cops Across L.A. With Rendition of George Michael's 'Careless Whisper'

YouTube'He is above the law:' Sergio Flores.​This guy was begging to be arrested, but he wasn't. Our Annoying Prank of the Week Award goes to sax man Sergio Flores for exposing the impotence of the L.A. mall cop. Because if anyone needs to be exploited and looked down upon, it's the our $10-a ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Talking with Diana Kennedy, the Mad Men Cookbook How to Make Bacon Roses

-- Bricia Lopez interviews Diana Kennedy at Loteria Grill. [LA>FWD] -- Making bacon roses. [My Last Bite] -- David Lebovitz on the art of food blogging. ("If you are writing for search engines, you are cheating readers.") [David Lebovitz] -- How to survive eating everything at In-N-Out. [Grub ... More >>

30 Burgers in 30 Days

Five of the best (... so far)

You are the punk-rock lion Christ of Human Resources: 3 motivational business books based on deeply stupid metaphors

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. For years the most popular method of getting through the workday for America's busines ... More >>

Drink This Now: Cognoscenti Coffee's On-the-Menu Cortado

T. NguyenCognoscenti Coffee's cortado, with a palmier from Proof Bakery​ Cognoscenti Coffee at Proof Bakery in Atwater Village calls a spade a spade. That is, the coffee station inside the bakery, run by Yeekai Lim, lists a generally off-menu item -- the cortado -- as a cortado. To really a ... More >>

Das Racist: "We get really sick of playing "Time to Pretend" but we have to do it for our fans" (Live at the Echoplex Tonight)

​Das Racist may not be reworking "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" to include our beloved In-N-Out any time soon, but they will be playing at the Echoplex tonight, performing in their signature half-serious style. We caught up with the group last week to get the scoop on their background a ... More >>

Dan Dan Mian

Say it again: Dan dan mian, at Chuan Yu Noodle Town

Consumer Reports Ranks Best-Tasting U.S. Burgers

RachellebAmerica's Favorite Burger​ Turns out Burger King -- and McDonald's, Wendy's and Jack in the Box -- no longer rank among U.S. burger royalty. Consumer Reports recently published a list of our 18 favorite fast food burgers and local legend In-N-Out got top honors. While obviously proud ... More >>

A Word About the Chains

No

Ask Mr. Gold: A Word About the Chains (No)

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: How do you feel about chain restaurants in Los Angeles? Are there any that you find satisfying? Are there lessons to be learned from large corporate feeding troughs? --Daniela G., Los Angeles Dear Ms. G.: Do I go to chain restaurants? Al ... More >>

Baldwin Park Bans New Drive-Throughs

Flickr/livingonimpulseIn-N-Out​ In an act of legal symmetry, sort of, the city of Baldwin Park has declared a moratorium on any new drive-through fast food restaurants. Why symmetry? Because Baldwin Park is where it all started, when In-N-Out opened in 1948 as the nation's very first drive-th ... More >>

Best Wowshi: Definition Included

E. CourtlandChicken wowshi​ That it exists nowhere else in the world, that it is of mixed and dubious cultural origins, or that its architecture is not unlike a Hot Pocket shouldn't necessarily preclude this from the Best Of category -- the wowshi at Bella Pita is, indeed, the best. For nothin ... More >>

Casting Calls: Season 2 of Worst Cooks in America Wants You!

Food Networkhost Anne Burrell has a moment​ If you accidentally set your kitchen on fire the last time you baked cookies, or have been banned from cooking dinner by your family because they'd rather eat In-N-Out than risk consuming your lasagne, you may have a television gig in your future. W ... More >>

Oscar, Mr. Gold

Where to go after the Academy Awards

Eat Like the Police: Dinner and a Ride Along With the SMPD

Yes, we all know the stereotypes. Cops sit around at doughnut shops, drinking coffee and knocking back crullers. Do some of them? Yes, probably, but certainly not all. On Sunday night, I was fortunate enough to jump in a squad car (front seat, I promise) for a ride along with SMPD Officer Dustin Bra ... More >>

Diary of a 6 Year Old Foodie: Can Rustic Canyon Take Down The Golden State?

A few months ago, our 6 year-old foodie took on the In-N-Out burger and the Father's Office burger, enjoying both but criticizing FO's for its structural integrity and lack of consistency from one bite to the next. In the end, he decided that the best burger was, in fact, from The Golden State. Toda ... More >>

Eat and Run at Drago Centro: Braised Oxtails Can Be Fast Food Too

I guess it all depends on how you define the term "fast food." You can get a burger in a bag, or you can get very good food, but more quickly. Thus Drago Centro, Celestino Drago's swank downtown restaurant, has introduced an "eat & run" prix fixe menu, which offers three courses for $25 in under th ... More >>

What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox

Cooking with all Things Trader Joe's: Crazytarian Recipes Made Easy

When I was in my early twenties and had the dual luxuries of copious time and disposable income, I loved to cook. I cooked different things all the time, experimented with various styles of cooking and ingredients, and wasn't afraid to take a chance on something exotic. "What's the worst that could ... More >>

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>

Syrian Brunch Sundays at Sham

Spice-scented pleasures

I Can has Cheezburger?

Comme Ça - finally, a brasserie Made for L.A.

The Jon Lovitz interview

That's the ticket

Wine n' Burger

Great buns, nice glass

Jim Gaffigan

What a Wreck

Snakebites

High Anxiety

Road Rage

'N' Is for Nowhere

A Short Story by Aimee Bender, Wanda Coleman, Janet Fitch, Peter Gadol, Hillary Johnson, Jim Krusoe, Rubén Mendoza, Nicole Panter, John Rechy, Nancy Rommelmann, Greg Sarris, Jerry Stahl, Diana Wagman and Benjamin Weissman

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore