8 Oz. Burger Bar
Poor 8 Oz. Burger Bar.
You occupy the former Table 8 space and have spruced up the outdoor seating. You have saddled your menu with an array of attractive comfort foods such as the truffle potato skins and the short rib grilled cheese. You have competent, tasty burgers such as the Melrose (see picture below), loaded with 6 ounces of grass-fed beef, garlic tomatoes, arugula and red onion marmalade. You are crowded on a Saturday afternoon, full of both multi-generational families, X-Games hipsters and recent UCLA graduates. You offer a great strawberry milkshake and full-service bar for Sunday cocktails.
Yet you are not even one of the top three burger joints in Los Angeles.
Sorry, 8 oz. Burger Bar. As far as pure-play burger brands go in Los Angeles, I’m still going to prefer the timelessness of the Applepan hickory burger, the ketchup-Nazi confusion of the Father’s Office gourmet burger and the greasy satisfaction of Umami’s Hatch Burger.
But I will still go to you after an afternoon shopping for rhinestoned dress shirts being aggressively hawked by shopkeepers on Melrose Avenue. - H. Lee
8 Oz. Burger Bar, 7661 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046, (323) 852-0008
