The Riders Club Cafe Goes Back to Basics

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 15, 2012

When I re-evaluate the best burgers I've eaten in my life, the most memorable are usually from dives, greasy spoons, places where I can see, smell and hear beef patties sizzle on a grill, and the griddle is just a French fry toss away. It was like...

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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;...

Rock N Brews, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons' New Restaurant, is a KISS Playground

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 1, 2015

Does Rock & Brews in Buena Park need to be reviewed? No matter what I say in the next 800 words, you've already made up your mind if you know what it is: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's rock-themed restaurant. Either it's your kind of joint or it...

Ten Great Beef Meals in OC and Long Beach

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 18, 2013

This list is designed so that you can have a cow. Steak is, of course, represented. There's also a burger in there, because, well, what better foodstuff has this creature from the subfamily Bovinae given to humanity? Without further ado, here are...

Belly Up to Slater's 50/50

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 18, 2011

Slater's 50/50 serves dude food. What else could you call the half-beef-half-bacon patties the restaurant has pioneered if not catnip for the chest-pounding bros who might call it lunch? The new Huntington Beach Slater's 50/50, which took over the...

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...