Presenting This Year's Crop of New Burger Joints: More Umami, Another The Counter, And BurgerFi

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • February 6, 2012
We're still living in a burger Renaissance folks. As you may recall, the past few years saw a surge of new burger joints, some came from highfalutin gourmets chefs (think Joseph Mahon's Burger Parlor, Charlie Palmer's DG Burger, and Marcus...
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