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10 Best Burgers in Los Angeles.
Hamburgers may very well be the staple of Southern California. The combination of ground beef and bun is so deeply entrenched in Los Angeles’s dining culture that there’s always a new creation to taste in and around the city.
This is the birthplace for some of the most famous (and infamous) hamburgers in the world, but the city that gave birth to Umami Burger, Father’s Office, and McDonald’s also houses a fine and storied tradition of old-school burgers including a handful that are known only to the city.
Los Angeles is home to countless burgers with near-cult followings From a Valley vegan option hiding inside of an event venue to a once-a-week smoked beef burger in Lincoln Heights, here’s where to get your burger on right now across Los Angeles.
But Californians know and love their burgers and will fight passionately over which restaurant serves up the top beef patty.
Imagine burgers enhanced with truffles, burgers piled high with extras or huge patties made with Wagyu, America’s version of Kobe beef.
Furthermore, you’ll find burgers on English muffins, burgers on brioche, burgers smothered in Brie and burgers that are made in a classic way, with a white-bread bun, lettuce, tomato and American cheese.
These are the 10 Best Burgers in L.A
1. Gold Burger
Address: 5623 York Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90042
Instagram : @goldburgerla
Working Hours: WED – MON NOON – 8:00 PM
TUESDAY C L O S E D
Stop by for seared burgers topped with pastrami and plenty of cheese.
These are the most substantial burgers in LA’s oversaturated smash scene.
From the eponymous Goldburger, which comes topped with American cheese, grilled onions, pickles, and their special garlic-mustard aioli, to the LA Special, loaded with thick cuts of pastrami, these are smashburgers that’ll keep you full well past dinner and possibly into breakfast the next day.
Made to order, crisp, fresh curly fries that are well seasoned are the perfect side and they give you a ton. They have tasty craft sodas, interesting flavours of hand pies and an uncomplicated menu.
2. The Win- Dow
Address: 425 Rose Ave Venice, CA 90291
Phone : (310) 412-0075
Working Hours: MON – FRI 11:00AM – 5:00 PM
FRI – SAT 8:00 AM – 5:00PM
The Window is a takeout window attached to American Beauty, a steakhouse on Rose Ave. in Venice.
It is a destination for classic smash-burgers, fried chicken sandwiches and grain bowls which are best enjoyed by pulling up a stool outside and hanging out with our neighbours.
They do straightforward, no-frills smash patties grilled on a flat-top with onions, topped with American cheese, pickles, and house sauce, and served on Martin’s potato roll.
The burger is crispy yet juicy, the cheese is sufficiently gooey, and the house sauce is slightly tangy, but they do innovate a bit, too: Not only do they make a great breakfast burger with egg, but the vegetarian Beauty Burger, made with an Impossible patty and grilled with onions, is savoury and just a little bit sweet.
3. Pie n’ Burger Diner
Address: 913 E. California Blvd.Pasadena, CA 91106
Phone : (626)795-1123
Working Hours: MON – SUN 8:00AM – 9:00PM
Photo by Gerardo Covarrubias on Unsplash
Pie ‘N Burger specializes in homemade food. The meat used in the burgers is ground every other day and is prime beef, the highest grade possible.
Since 1963, this classic diner has been serving up a legendary classic hamburger. This little Pasadena diner has been wowing food critics for decades and for good reason.
Their cheeseburger is a thing of beauty; a quarter-pound patty of fresh beef fried up on a griddle, then piled high with pickles, American cheese and a large slab of iceberg lettuce.
The house-made Thousand Island dressing elevates the burger. Make sure to add an order of crispy fries.
Leave room for a piece of their wonderful homemade pie, just like Grandma used to make back in the day.
The recipes are over 80 years old. All is done as it was in the beginning.
4. In n’ Out Burger
Address: 9149 S Sepulveda Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone : (800) 786-1000
Working Hours: MON – FRI 10:30AM –1:00AM
SAT – SUN 10:30AM – 1:00AM
Photo by Grant Thomas on Unsplash
Founded by the Snyder family in 1948.
No visit to Los Angeles is complete without a visit to one of the iconic IN-N-OUT Burger fast-food places.
Everything is made fresh to order here, nothing is ever frozen, which is part of the enduring appeal.
Locals order from the “not-so-secret menu” that includes favourite items such as the animal-style burger, which is built on a mustard-cooked beef patty, or (for the ravenous carnivores in the crowd) the 4 x 4, four beef patties stacked with four slices of cheese, lettuce and tomato.
Or just go off the regular menu and try the Double Double Cheeseburger, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Throw in an order of crispy fries and a real ice-cream milkshake and your IN-N-OUT experience will be complete.
They are the most famous hamburgers in Los Angeles and there’s a reason they have been selling like crazy since 1948 – they are a burger lover’s dream.
5. Burger She Wrote
Address: 7454 1/2 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone : (323) 272-3474
Working Hours: MON – SUN 11:30AM –9:30PM
This little burger joint serves up some delicious smashed burgers that leave you surprisingly pretty darn full. Parking is pretty limited but there are some near the neighbourhood.
Order the Oklahoma burger and double patty burger and some fries. The patties exterior is crunchy with a juicy interior that was pretty well seasoned.
The sliced onions that are sweet and crunchy go well with the sauce and pickles.
Surprisingly they come with these little cute buns that make Pattie’s look massive in size.
The smashed patties that LA loves have now come to Beverly Boulevard. Expect slim, crispy edges and lots of melted American cheese from this heavily-pressed newcomer.
6. Umami Burger
Address: 400 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90045, United States
Phone : (310) 307-7538
Working Hours: MON – SUN 9:00AM –12:00AM
Hamburger from Umami Burger, which includes shiitake mushroom, Photo by jun Seita – Wikimedia
Lively chain outpost serving elevated burgers & sides plus creative cocktails in a sleek space.
When founder Adam Fleishman opened his first Umami Burger location in 2009, even he had no idea Angelenos would go crazy for his uniquely flavoured hamburgers.
Using umami, the fifth taste flavour (after sweet, salty, bitter and sour), to make his gourmet burgers practically irresistible, Fleishman’s recipes have taken SoCal and beyond by storm.
All Umami burgers are made with beef that is freshly ground in house and served medium rare; the classic version has Parmesan frico, shiitake mushroom, roasted tomato, caramelized onions and house-made Umami ketchup.
The most decadently delicious one on the menu is the Truffle Burger, smothered in truffled aioli, house truffle cheese and a truffle glaze.
Every restaurant serves up wine and beer, too, for a complete dining experience.
7. Heavy Handed
Address: 2522 Main St Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone : (310) 307-7538
Working Hours: MON – SUN 9:00AM –12:00AM
Image by Mateus Rosa Flor from Pixabay
How come a food truck? Yes, a food truck is making burgers this delicious! It is a symphony of flavours all played in perfect harmony.
The authenticity of these burgers has gained a well-deserved place in the hearts of the Angelinos that have ventured to try these burgers.
With their own homemade sauce and pickles and perfectly charred meat. This food truck undoubtedly is a gift to Los Angeles.
Heavy Handed has mastered the double burger in a way that few places have.
The cheese/meat/bread ratio at this roaming truck is perfect – every inch of the smashed patties is covered in melted American cheese, and it’s served on a fluffy Martin’s potato roll.
The burger, made from 100% short rib, also has some sweetness from the house bread-and-butter pickles, and tang from the house burger sauce, which complements the funky patty perfectly.
And if you don’t get an order of their beef tallow fries on the side, you’ll never forgive yourself. For their most up to date location and details, be sure to follow them @heavyhanded.la.
8. Shaka Shack Burgers
Address: 1701 Ocean Park Blvd Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone : (310) 450-5551
Working Hours: MON – SUN 11:00AM –9:00PM
Once you step in it’s as if you have entered a small local burger shack in Waikiki. Very colourful decor and positive quotes on the wall.
They have both indoor and outdoor seating. The ambience inside and outside the restaurant is wonderful – very Hawaiian vibes. The staff member working at the front was extremely kind and warm!
Get the Royale Burger, 1/3 pound grass-fed beef patty, lettuce, tomato, pickles & onion with the “Secret” sauce and a side of fries. The beef is delicious and it melts in your mouth.
Because burger quality depends on what cows eat, they source their meat from farms that freely graze the cattle. The meat obtained is therefore way healthier and tastier.
Their organic French fries are homemade, freshly cut and fries as is also their handcrafted onion rings including the secret veggie lava-bean burger and most of their dishes.
9. Petit Trios le Valley
Address: 13705 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Phone : (818) 989-2600
Working Hours: MON – FRI NOON –10:00PM
SAT – SUN 8:00AM – 10:00PM
Image by Benjamin Balazs from Pixabay
Should a burger ever be eaten with a knife and fork? If anyone is going to challenge the notion of dining simplicity it’s chef Ludo Lefevbre, whose Valley outpost of popular French bistro Petit Trois is as charming as it is unassuming.
It is more of a cute little French bistro in Sherman Oaks. The cheeseburger is their speciality. It’s one of those cheeseburgers you eat with a fork and knife and oh so delicious.
Yes, there are tablecloths and servers seem a bit more starched and pressed than elsewhere; yes, one may ask for silverware when downing the deliciously drowned and sauced Big Mec burger. This burger speaks to LA as an enduring town for burger innovation, where anything (and any flavour) is possible.
10. Original Tommy’s World Famous Hamburgers.
Address: 2575 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90057
Phone : (213) 389-9060
Working Hours: MON – SUN OPEN 24 Hrs
Photo by Carol M Highsmith –Wikimedia
This is the Original Tommy’s, the spot where it all started back in 1946.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of Tommy’s to the greater LA burger scene.
The restaurant’s branding alone has spawned dozens (if not more) replicators with tonally-similar names, while the heavy use of spiced chilli — served atop burgers, fries, dogs, and more — is as ever-present as tap water on hundreds of restaurant menus around Southern California.
This is the place that helped to start it all.
Los Angeles has a reputation as the land of kale salads, farro power bowls, and probiotic Moon Juice thermal chambers, but there’s something else this city does better than most: BURGERS.
From old-school Valley shacks and gourmet truffle patties to the best fast-food chain in existence, there’s no denying LA knows its way around an incredible burger.
We’ve scoured the city looking for the absolute best of them and have presented them to you.
