Burger of the Month: Retro rules the day at this burger house in Santa Ana

Critic Brad A. Johnson doubles down on special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions — but no, not that one.

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • March 9, 2022

The menu at 1st Street Burger House in Santa Ana offers nearly 20 different hamburgers, some of which differ from the others by merely a single ingredient. Grilled onions versus sliced sweet onions, for example. Or shredded lettuce instead of leaf...

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Game of Burgers: Dominion of Diners, First Round!

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 26, 2012

Let's get down to it shall we? My first round has four battles between eight contenders in the division we're calling the Dominion of Diners. We have Pee Wee's versus Red Robin; Memphis versus The Catch; Mick's Karma Bar versus The Rider's Club;...

Channeling Bob’s Burgers, Graze in Santa Ana Does a Great Black Garlic Burger

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • June 6, 2018

Eat your heart out, Bob. Photo by @ocwmktgdirector The first thing I thought of when I saw that Graze—the new 4th Street Market vendor—had a burger with black garlic in it was Bob’s Burgers. If you’re a fan of the show, as I am, you’ll remember...

Newsletter: A bucket list burger at Hawkins House of Burgers in Watts

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • October 26, 2019

We all have those bucket list restaurants — places we’ve been meaning to visit for months, even years, before we finally go. Until recently, Hawkins House of Burgers, the esteemed Watts burger restaurant, was at the top of my list. Hawkins is...

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A First Look at the Grub at the Good Burger Pop-Up Diner in WeHo

Paige Skinner • Los Angeles Magazine • July 8, 2019

“Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?” That’s the line Kel Mitchell made famous on the 1990s kids sketch show All That and its 1997 cinematic spin-off, Good Burger. Now, that famous line and fictional restaurant...

I can make that: We try to make the secret Jazz burger at Jitlada

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • January 8, 2020

“It’s so secret. So many secret things in there. I’ll never tell you.” This is Jazz Singsanong’s standard response when people ask what she puts in the off-menu Jazz burger at her Thai restaurant, Jitlada. The spicy patty served on leaves of crisp...

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