Goldburger

ESSENTIAL LA BURGER!

Heading back to Tabula Rasa Bar on Sunday to smash some cheeseburgers and bringing back the patty melt, with some tweaks and mods to make it even better. 5p to 9p, or sell out of course. : Devin Pedde Photography

This Sunday! This Sunday! My classic doubles and @motzburger inspired onion fried specials will be making an appearance at the killer #smorgasburger stand at @smorgasburgla this Sunday. Endlessly grateful to @midtownlunchla for the opportunity and I can’t wait to cook at such an incredible LA food event! It should finally be a beautiful day we’ll start at 10am and hopefully go til 4pm if we don’t sell out. Pictured here is the special with diced onions from the classic added, like a science experiment gone oh so right. : @ndemordaunt

This Sunday! I’m very excited about my first popup @tabularasabar coming up on Sunday 2/10. I start at 5p and finally you’ll be able to enjoy delicious and with either a classic double cheeseburger or a very special patty melt! Pictured here is one I made during the r&d process and is covered in caramelized onion, plenty of American cheese, my special sauce, and of course incredible bread by @bubandgrandmasbread. What will Sunday’s version look like?! Come by and find out patty melts will be in limited supply and when they sell out they sell out!

Popups are back! I’m excited to announce a schedule for Goldburger popups, beginning Feb. 3 1st & 3rd Sundays @dinosaur_coffee at 11a ... 2nd Sundays @tabularasabar at 5p (patty melts!) Thanks to everyone who came out to eat delicious cheeseburgers last year. This year should be a fun one and looking forward to slingin’ (and eatin’) as many burgers as I can. See more

For a long time I’d tell anyone who’ll listen that @republiquela makes the best burger in LA, and it just so happens to be in one of the most beautiful dining rooms around. Its incredible dry aged patty is adorned classically with crispy lettuce, tomato, and thousands island, with some grilled onions to help perpetuate the mess on your hands. The poppy seed brioche is soft and squishy, as it must be, and together make for a incredibly perfect classic and special cheeseburger.

One can’t survive on burgers alone, so every now and then I need to embrace living in California and eat something fresh and light. We all know that avocado toast is so millennial and so LA, but it’s also so so delicious. This is much more than avocado toast though. Perfect everything bagel, cream cheese, avocado, tomato, onion, and sprouts. It’s the most perfect melding of my Jewish Los Angeles upbringing. It’s basically me in the form of food. The folks over Friends and Family do an incredible job turning simple ingredients into culinary explosions. The menu may say bagel and avocado but then you get this and it’s so much more than you could ever hope for. I feel good enough to go for a run. #Cardio

Back in LA from the South so I finally made it to try the other Nashville style hot chicken sensation of LA, @daveshotchicken. I was skeptical because of how ubiquitous hot chicken brands have become, but these guys do a good job. Vibe wise the space is more like a chain, with tv’s etc, but the slider which really is big enough to just call a sandwich was tasty! It has all the great things going for it: pickles, slaw, crack sauce, and a slice of American cheese for good measure. I wouldn’t go above a medium spice level though. And even though the line was about 30 minutes my food came out in about 90 seconds, which is pretty remarkable.

I’ve finally had the burger at Husk so now I can head back home. The smashed patties with bacon mixed in were incredibly special and delicious. Great smokiness infused in juicy meat flavor and perfect sear, each bite was full of rich flavor and absolute enjoyment. The American cheese melted perfectly of course and the mostly raw but slightly cooked thin onions mixed so well with the cheese and meat it all felt like one perfect union. The seeded bun looked too big at first glance but somehow it wasn’t and had that squishiness I love. I want to eat this burger again and again. I expect to tweak my popup special onion and sauce to align more closely to this, because this was a pretty perfect double cheeseburger.

Eating all the meats @lewisbarbecue. Incredible pork ribs, delicious brisket and pulled pork, some perfect collards and creamy mac and cheese. I feel pretty pretty pretty great right about now.