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Going Down the Rabbit Hole - Burgers in Burbank
Ever wondered where to find the ultimate burger in Burbank? Look no further than this mouthwatering deep dive into the city's rich burger history with a special appearance by current Burbank Mayor Nikki Perez – not in her official capacity, but as a lifelong resident, dedicated foodie, and self-described "pregnant lady who wants burgers at 3 AM."
From the perfect patty to the ideal toppings, we explore what makes a burger truly exceptional. Mayor Perez reveals her husband Blake's secret to an amazing homemade burger (hint: it involves gruyere cheese and a brioche bun), while hosts Craig Sherwood and Ross Benson share their own burger preferences, from pickle styles to cheese choices.
The conversation serves up a feast of Burbank burger knowledge, from current favorites like BB's Cafe and Granville to nostalgic looks at beloved establishments now gone – Clint's with its intimate 12-seat dining area, Juicy Harvey's (now a Wienerschnitzel), and the original House of Pancakes (Burbank had the very first one!). We uncover surprising burger finds, including the revelation that Del Taco might serve "the best 3 AM burger" in town, and restaurant evolutions as places change hands over decades.
Beyond burgers, we explore the deeper connections between food and community in Burbank – from restaurant owners who'll open early to prepare breakfast burritos for studio workers to the importance of supporting small local businesses over chains. The rich history of Burbank's food scene comes alive through stories of bygone establishments, secret menu items, and the evolution of the city's culinary landscape.
Share your own Burbank burger recommendations with us! Email news@myburbank.com with your favorite spots, and stay tuned for our upcoming breakfast burrito episode. Your food adventures could be featured in our next deep dive into Burbank's delicious history.
It's time for another edition of Down the Rabbit Hole, where the staff of my Burbank Talks, discusses topics from Burbank's past or dives deep into the history of the city. Now let's see what's on the agenda today as we join our show.
Speaker 2:Hello, Burbank, Craig Sherwood, here of course again with Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:Wow Down the rabbit hole.
Speaker 2:Down the rabbit hole we go. And here's a little treat for everybody too. I'll give you a little story here. A couple weeks ago we were doing an Ask the Mayor show and we started talking burgers after the show and our mayor, nikki Perez, started talking burgers with us and we were pretty much impressed. Now, in case you, yeah, she's the mayor of the city Our mayor, nikki Perez, started talking burgers with us and we were pretty much impressed. Now, in case you, yeah, she's the mayor of the city, but she's also a lifelong resident. So we decided that we're going to do a go down the rabbit hole and talk about burgers and we'd bring in a special guest. And we want and today she's not the mayor, so don't take what she says as official city business. It is 100% Nikki Perez and Nikki Perez only.
Speaker 4:So Nikki, welcome to our show. Hi Craig, hi Ross, happy to be here. Yes, like you said, craig, today my qualifications are lifelong Burbank resident, lifelong foodie and a very pregnant lady who wants burgers at 3 am.
Speaker 2:That's great, okay. So let's start off this way. Now. I have the perfect burger always in mind. Okay, Ross, I'll let you go first. Give us your perfect burger. You went to a restaurant and they have every ingredient and everything you want in the world. What would you tell them to bring to you as a perfect burger?
Speaker 3:Wow, that can be difficult if you think of different places around town. Start with a decent-sized bun. No little tiny, you know, small, I got big hands, got to fill them. Good patty, fresh patty, fresh patty. I like. You know I can't do onions anymore because of my age, but I used to like onions but I gotta have pickles on them, sliced lettuce, dill or sweet Dill, dill, love dill, love pickle. Important distinction, and it's funny because I like my dill pickle sliced instead of the round part by, like quarters I come sliced long so they fit on the burger a little better. Cheese I love sharp American cheese but I prefer cheddar Condiments I'm a Thousand Island type guy or mustard or ketchup if I'm forced to it, and I'll be real happy with that for a couple of days.
Speaker 2:Nikki, give us your perfect burger. You can go to anywhere. Every ingredient's available to you. How do you want it?
Speaker 4:That's hard because, okay, if I'm feeling classy, classy then I have to say, and also, I'm not partisan to any burger in Burbank. I love them all equally, but but my favorite burger is my husband's burger. Oh, blake makes a mean burger and he'll like, like. The things that I love about it is it is on a nice baroche bun, a nice thick baroche bun. Like Ross said, it is a thick patty, which is important. I really like a nice thick patty and I like my, my burger medium rare, which I can't do right now, but that's okay. It's okay. And always for the seasoning, you gotta have your garlic and your onion. Those are my go-tos, although I'm starting to get there, ross, where the onion is slowly going away. But yeah, that's my favorite burger, just really simple, really thick, well-seasoned meat. It's all about how you season the meat first, and so that's my go-to. And he always makes it with gruyere cheese. It gives it a nice hint really I've never.
Speaker 4:I've never tried that before. It's really good, really good. So if we're going like we're going sophisticated, fancy, that's the burger. If it's 3 am, I'm pregnant, I'm being a trash panda. I want a chili cheese burger, I want it loaded with chili and I want it with mustard.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, absolutely. I find sometimes they put a tomato on chili. I never understood that. Why do you put a tomato on those burgers?
Speaker 3:Well, it's funny you say that because whenever I go to order a burger I usually say easy lettuce, no tomato. That's my normal line. I mean, you hate the tomatoes sliding out when you're about to take a big bite of a good burger. But you guys, you brought up a good one there. Chili you know some people like it with the burgers, some don't. I once, I will admit, very many, very, very many years ago, I was in a contest at Tommy's and I put away 13 Tommy chili burgers. Don't think I wasn't sick the next day and hours later, but I was. But it was a contest and I did win.
Speaker 3:I still like their chili. That deserves some claps. That. Or you know, across town there's other chilis. But can you beat Larryry's chili dog? I mean on their hot dog or on their burger he uses the same chili. Um, I know the recipe rather well. It happens to be rc provisional who has made their chilies, made right here in burbank. They make the chili for tommy's and add some tises to it and so forth, but that chili originated right here in the city of Burbank. They also do pastrami and corned beef and all that. But I don't like it dripping and messy. I don't like a messy burger, I don't like it on me, I like it in my mouth, and so forth.
Speaker 2:Well, my perfect burger no doubt about it is going to be I can go with broast or I can go with sesame seed bun. Either one, it's got to be toasted, it's got to be a toasted bun. Okay the patty, handmade, medium rare, absolutely. Pickles, pickles, sweet or dill. I'll take either one raw white onions and either chopped I rather prefer chopped I'll take the, the full onion. Also, it's got to be cheddar cheese, sharp cheddar cheese. It's got to be sharp cheddar for me. I'll try other things, but to me sharp, sharp cheddar is the way to go. Then, depending on the on the mood, add some avocado once in a while. Ooh, I love avocado on the burger. Once in a while, a little splurge for the avocado, and then you know, as far as the spread goes, yeah, usually a thousand Island, that a thousand island, that's usually a good, good spread. I mean, it's funny.
Speaker 2:When I was a kid I hated anything that had to do anything extra on a burger. I just wanted the cheese, the meat and the bun. And only catch, I hated mustard, really hated mustard, and as I got older I love mustard. Now there's so many things I love now that I wouldn't even try as a kid and my whole thing in the last, you know, 20, 30 years has been. I always try new things. I gotta try it. I gotta see if I like it or not you know I was the direct opposite, craig.
Speaker 4:I've always loved mustard. I was that kid that would put just mustard on my hot dog, nothing else now that's funny.
Speaker 3:You say that because just last week I was looking at some different, you know, menu items and somebody, um, diet items. Somebody put mustard on cottage cheese. I can't visualize it and I can't get that taste. But I don't know if I like mustard that much that I'd put it on my cottage cheese. Have you tried it? That's beyond me. I haven't, but I want to because it must add something to it. You know I'm not one to put chilies on a burger, meaning jalapenos or anything. I kind of like it plain. But then, you know, we kind of talk about a little chili.
Speaker 3:I love chili dogs. I can stop at Larryry's chili dog and get two chili cheese dogs to go. John knows how to make them the. The hot dog has a snap to it. The chili is just, it's not greasy, puts a little mustard on the hot dog first. Um, he'll ask if you want onions. That is a perfect chili cheese dog. Excuse me, so well, I tried to duplicate it. Two days ago I went out, bought the whole thing of chili that RC provisioned. I got it at Smart and Final. That's where John gets his. I got the I forget what brand hot dog, but it has to have that snap. And he taught me how you get that snap is you let your water boil, then you put your hot dog in for just enough time so it gets brittle. So you get that snap, put it on your bun, put some chili over it. I was in seventh heaven. I have one sitting in my room. I made two yesterday and could only eat one. I got one sitting in my icebox right now. Okay.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you this Nikki, I let you go first. Is that because she's pregnant? No, it's because you went first last time.
Speaker 3:We're all rustling at the end of the night, so let me ask you this.
Speaker 2:we're all rustling at the end of the night, so let me, let me ask you this what is your first remembrance of ever having a burger?
Speaker 4:first remembrance of ever having a burger, I have to say probably mcdonald's happy meal. It's the 90s. We're pulling up to the drive-thru with my parents and they ask me, what do you want to eat? And I say I want toy. And and you know they're sitting there going like no, no eat. And I'm like toy and they're like no food and I'm like happy meal. They're like which one? So it was chosen for me. Okay, and that's my first memory of having a burger. I think, like most kids, it's just like the plainest thing, like the small bun, the little patty and the cheese. So that's my first memory okay ross.
Speaker 3:well, you know, you say the we. We used to travel our family. Every summer. We'd get in the car my, my dad, would have the stuff on the top of the car, you know, and a bag of red and white pistachio nuts in the back seat. And the reason we had red and white is we could only eat white when we left. And if we ever got lost my dad always told me we could just look for the white shells and we could be eating our red pistachio nuts.
Speaker 3:But I remember going on vacation after vacation after vacation and every restaurant we went into hamburgers, french fries and coke. What would you like? Hamburgers, french fries and coke. What would you like Every time? Hamburgers, french fries and coke. A the first burger I can think of, because I'm walking distance, was probably Bob's Big Boy with their combo or a big boy, and even before that A&W root beer. Those burgers have a taste to this day. If you can find an A&W, there are some around. It's funny. My brother used to own restaurants and people. You'd go into a restaurant for a taste A&W, because maybe the root beer you know, the ice cold mug, frosty cold mug, but that A&W burger they just made it right and then going through high school.
Speaker 2:What burger? Was it a mama burger? Was it a papa burger?
Speaker 3:Oh, probably a papa burger. I'm a pretty big guy, but then going through high school, I don't think he could top Clint's yeah Well we'll get to that.
Speaker 2:We'll get to that. We're going to get to all that in a second.
Speaker 4:You unlocked a core memory for me, because I'm thinking now okay, every kid remembers the McDonald's drive-thru, but what was the first distinct experience of sitting and eating a burger? Yeah, johnny Rockets.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was popping when I was a kid and you'd go to Johnny Rockets because it was that vibe of the 50s and you had your burger, but you couldn't have it without a milkshake and I remember that distinctly. I remember playing with the little mini recorder they had on the tables, having the burger, the shake, oh, that was everything.
Speaker 2:I'm going to actually use both of your things, because my first memory was McDonald'sdonald's along with bob's big boy, but back then we had the mcdonald's over on olive and uh and verdugo, yeah. And back then there was no inside, it was only outside. You had to walk up to the window and and there there's some tables out there, but there was no inside seating, there was just there was not. That it's not there. They have the big arches, the big arches, but on the arches they always had how many millions of burgers had been sold, and every few weeks they'd go from 4 million to 5 million to 6 million. Now some of them just say millions and millions, but you could always watch the millions number go up every couple weeks, wow. And then of course there was also Bob's Big Boy couple weeks.
Speaker 2:And then of course there was also Bob's Big Boy, but once again, with my weird taste as a kid, and that's back when Bob's Big Boy now once again, a long time ago, the front door was out toward Riverside Drive. They actually remodeled it at one time and it was either going to Bob's Big Boy inside or going to the car hop service, and back then we actually went through a you'd drive up and go all the way around inside the parking lot in a long line and that's before they did the remodel, and it had all the way around it. They had car hops. So it was a lot of car hops, but remember, but no relish. I hated the relish when once and now I love the relish, but when I'm a kid, no relish. So it was a very I. I have no idea why I was such a plain jane back then. I I was just I didn't like anything with was relish on it.
Speaker 3:You know you talk about that drive-up service and what I remember. I mean, I remember having spelling words. My dad was out of town, my mom and I drove to Bob's Big Boy and sat out there in car hop service and the one spelling word I could not spell and she wouldn't let me. My mom wouldn't let me eat until I could spell the word milk correctly. I could not spell, am I okay? She wouldn't let me bite into my Bob's Big Boy until I could spell. And to this day, you know, I still remember that, like it was yesterday Wanting that burger, so bad. But talking about Bob's's big boy, that relish they use it today. I've tried to buy it separately. You can't, it's a red relish too right, it's, it's ketchup.
Speaker 3:Some ketchup relish, uh, some other spices used to buy it over there. When you check out you can't get it anymore, because I've wanted it. It it's sweet, it's it just has a they put on the burger. They also put mayonnaise, you know, or you know. You can order it different ways, but they use a shredded lettuce. Their burgers are pretty well known people.
Speaker 4:I got to tell you, craig, I agree with childhood. You not a relish person. It's not for me, I don't know. I like the, I like the onion like by itself. You know the big slab of onions. Relish not for me, but for me bobs. Obviously bobs is a staple, but it was my teenage years that were the bobs years. I was a marching band, so after every football game we're going to bo's. They don't do that anymore, which is crazy. That was the best part. You go to bob's after and I had oh, I remember my order from bob's. I'd always get my burger with a peach coke because they can do your cherry vanilla.
Speaker 2:I love vanilla coke I always get. I have never heard of peach coke before, so good, good, tell me about. How would you find that? How'd you find they had that I?
Speaker 4:think it's because I used to get cherry Coke, which I love me a cherry Coke. But I'd always go in and and and you know you're talking to the servers. They're super nice Cause they know the rowdy Friday and Thursday crowds are always the football game kids. They knew when we were coming down yeah, they knew when we were coming down, yeah, um, and, and you know they'd sort of the whole table and you'd ask for cherry coke and I think one of them one time was like you know, we have chocolate coke and I was like, yeah, I've had it. It's like, have you ever had peach coke?
Speaker 3:and I was like no, intrigue me well, it's funny you talk about where I know bob's is kind of a staple for us that live right around this area. But I saw their phone number memorized 8439334. Wow, now there's some trivia information.
Speaker 4:There's a real loyal customer right there.
Speaker 3:But I remember when I grew up that's when the 134 was built and Vaughn's Market and all the apartments I lived on Toluca Park Drive, which was right down the road, and when the line on a Friday night after a football game would go through the car hop service out the alley down at Pass Evergreen to Pass Avenue, down Pass Avenue, and my parents, I remember, would only let me go if the line was up to the freeway because I couldn't pass the Vons parking lot entrance. That's when there was a security bank there. But talk about it and people think in and out lines are bad. Now, exactly, you knew when you were in that line when you were on the 134, it was going to be an hour before you get car op service.
Speaker 3:You know, and it's so funny, we have these vivid memories growing up, we've all eaten at Bob's. I mean there's other things on the menu. Like we said a minute ago, chili spaghetti. Somebody turned me on to that recently. It's delicious. I mean they just, but, yes, a big boy combo. But there's other places in town that you know you go to and you just have in your mind that taste.
Speaker 2:I consulted with the burger dude a little bit and asked him to give me a list of your best burgers in Burbank. Now some of the ones he came up with are interesting, such as BB's Cafe over on Pass Avenue Not the BB's on uh burbank and and uh buena vista. This is a bb's been for a long time and even though it's kind of known as a breakfast place, pancake place you love the burgers there right there in the same plaza as that vans and do.
Speaker 3:Should I really date myself? When I had air and I just learned how to take a milk crate, put it up to the engine and check the oil when you had full service car service, jim tilly's union it was a 76 station was where bb's is now handles ice cream. But I remember them teaching me how to check the oil. That was when you had full service. You'd put, put the gas pump in, pump it real slow, you'd clean the windows, you'd check the oil and the air and all that stuff. That's what was there where Beebe's is now. I'm really dating myself, folks.
Speaker 4:You know, having the handles in Beebe's is not a bad trade-off.
Speaker 2:Yes, he also mentioned Granville, up on San Fernando Road. Different type of place, which is interesting Olos Bistro. You know where Olos Bistro is?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's now the new Right, but they changed the name of the hotel. It was the Coast Hotel, right, it's now called it used to be the Annabelle, now it's called the Coast Hotel. I forget.
Speaker 4:I know there's a name change involved.
Speaker 2:Right, so it's the restaurant on the side there, so I was surprised by that. Now, this is one that is. I don't. It's not there anymore. Burbank Pub, which is now something else.
Speaker 3:It's a pirate place, or something not Pirates Cove that was here in Burbank but no Buck and Arrows yeah, it's on Burbank around Keystone in that area it's a new.
Speaker 2:It used to be Burbank pub now. What's it right? It's called something else now and I think it's the same owners.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they just redid the model, so I don't know.
Speaker 4:It's a pirate theme. I wonder if they have the same burger.
Speaker 3:Ooh, well, that's going to be an investigation, isn't it? Ooh, that is. We're putting that top of your list. When you drive the tour bus, you're taking us. That's our first place.
Speaker 2:You don't have to tell me twice. Here's another great one for you, the New Deal. Ooh, have you ever had theirs?
Speaker 3:Yes, new Deal. There's a couple along Magnolia Boulevard. Having trekked Magnolia Boulevard for a long time, you got Morrison's along there. That has a good burger, but now let's go back up the block a little Clint's. Do you remember Clint's? I?
Speaker 4:don't. That was a little before me.
Speaker 2:Let's do the best ones, and then we'll go back and do a reminiscent.
Speaker 4:There's a lot of reminiscing we need to do here, craig has to stop us, because Ross and I can reminisce all day.
Speaker 2:Yes, we can. We're going to start heavy reminiscing in a second Finney's Craft House. That's up on, isn't it? That's on.
Speaker 3:San Fernando, san Fernando, they do make a good. We've been in there, yep, I've had burgers there, brews Brothers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep. And then the other one he did is a morrison right now. Morrison, have you ever had the morrison, the morris gucci burger there? I beg your pardon, it's like 30 dollars.
Speaker 3:You had a? What burger? There's a 30 dollar burger, a gucci burger.
Speaker 2:It's a gucci burger, gucci burger and they use colby beef in it and all sorts of burger, gucci burger and they use colby beef in it and all sorts of uh and everything is.
Speaker 4:It's good. Oh, it's damn good. Morrison is a good time for you and your puppy. They have full service menu for your dogs. They're amazing now wait.
Speaker 3:Do they have gucci things for your pet, like they do they have a gucci burger?
Speaker 4:you know I wish but I wouldn't put it past them to add it on the menu soon yeah, you'll pay for it too, probably.
Speaker 2:Oh man, okay, well, let's you. You brought up clint's, so let's, that's. That's it for the. He said we're the very, very best. He gave me a list of other ones also. Um, again, let's give me a list of all the ones that are not in business anymore either. So we'll go back wonder if that's because of their burger who knows?
Speaker 3:well, that's interesting.
Speaker 4:I know I did ruin one burger place at one time. Oh, I do recall that. So wait are so those are our top five.
Speaker 2:You were saying burger dude's top five or six right now, but the list is a little bit old I will say that, though that's a surprise to me I haven't had bb's like burger.
Speaker 4:I've had granville, for sure it's a good burger, but I haven't had a bb's or um, what was the third one on the list? Um granville oh, then the second one let's see.
Speaker 2:Uh, bb's, we had granville olives bistro yeah, I haven't had all the bistro.
Speaker 4:So bb's and I'll be sure not the first place I think of when I think burger, right, so I'm definitely heading over there right now, because when I think BB's, I think matcha pancakes.
Speaker 2:Okay, and that's just it. When you're trying to do a different place, like every week, you're starting to find places you wouldn't probably think of. But the rule was, if the burger's on the menu, they get judged.
Speaker 3:Well, you know what I'm throwing a challenge out there. I don't have my challenge coin. Our mayor happens to be in the room. I know her real well. Her name's Nikki Perez.
Speaker 2:Not tonight though.
Speaker 3:Not tonight. I'm going to go to the mayor of the city of Burbank and somebody told me, I don't know, some birdie told me she's pregnant, so she has all these weird cravings for burgers. I want people to email us and the mayor, craig, and I, will join you for a burger at one of these crazy places. In fact, I'll make it, I'll, I'll make this deal real good. My burbank will cover the cost of it. How do you like that? I must pay you too much. We'll cover the cost of it. How do you like that? I?
Speaker 2:don't want to pay you too much, okay, madam.
Speaker 3:Perez and you know what you can bring your husband with you, because he knows how to cook a good burger. We're going to have to make him go to work for you.
Speaker 4:You know he's the real judge. I'm always like, oh, I love our restaurants and he's out here like this is my list of the top five. I'm about to, like craig said, destroy some restaurants on the list.
Speaker 3:Well, you guys might get to meet her husband, which, uh, we happen to know real well, but he is an aficionado when it comes to the kitchen he's a phenomenal cook.
Speaker 4:I always like to tell people our first date. He said I'll cook for you and I said okay, you know when a guy says I'll cook for you, you're like what kind? Ok, you know. When a guy says I'll cook for you, you're like what kind of chicken? Stale chicken am I going to get out? Of here.
Speaker 4:Kind of rubber chicken, kind of pasta hamburger helper, am I going to get here? And he said, what are you feeling? And so I was trying to be silly and I said seafood. He was like, what's your favorite seafood? And I was you. That man made me the best lobster tail I've ever had, with a lobster bisque reduction like a soup. It was delicious. I felt like I was eating at a Michelin star restaurant. Never questioned him again and I knew that I had to lock that down.
Speaker 2:There you go. Well, let's get back to our older places that are no longer around, like our Clint's. Okay, and now? Did you ever make it to clint's?
Speaker 4:I did not. What years was it around?
Speaker 3:um, it's um back in the 70s because it was there when we were in high school. It was on magnolia. Right now it's the fire department union office. Um, on magnolia, between, uh, myers and keystone, and I had a print shop teacher, gordon rouse, that if you had his class during lunch and you cleaned up real well, he'd let you go 10 minutes early or 15 minutes and I made sure my work area was always clean because I want, I think, clients would only see 10, 12, 12 people. Yeah, very small seating. And if you didn't get in there quick enough and you wanted to get that first burger and again, that's where I learned the sliced pickle and his chili was just perfect how he wrapped it you were in seventh heaven.
Speaker 2:And if you were there regularly he would know what you wanted before you got there. Wow, kind of like John at Larry's Larry's yeah. You know you stay in line. He started making it right away and, oh my goodness, it just you know back then so hard and at Burroughs days you only had 30 minutes for lunch, wow. So you had to get somewhere quick off campus. So it was either Clint's or we'd go to Puffin Taco on the corner of Olive and Buena Vista, or we'd go to Pizza Pie on Reese and Magnolia.
Speaker 4:I think I lucked out because I had 45 minutes back in my bros days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, yeah. So we lost a lot of great burger joints in Burbank over the years and you say your list is uh, you still have quite a few on your list. It's a bummer that, yes, restaurants don't make a lot of money selling burgers. Come on, let's admit it, it's not, uh, where you're going to make your most money, but we've had some great places in this fine city of burbank for burgers. You know I mean over the years.
Speaker 4:You know one time somebody was they were trying to be a little cheeky and they were like oh, you're the mayor of burbank. Oh, that's like hamburger town and I'm like you bet yourself it is. We have the meanest burgers in town. I don't take that as an insult, that's a compliment. Wow, yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Um yeah, here's a few, a few burgers that are no longer around. How about the hot dog show?
Speaker 3:you remember, right down here on the corner of of uh yeah rose.
Speaker 2:It was a river sign. What is it now?
Speaker 3:it's um what is it now? It's a vegan, vegan being a lonely, or vegan v something yeah, isn't it like veggie, veggie grill there? We go see. Now.
Speaker 4:This lady knows her city, I tell you um, although I will say I'm I'm very much, uh, it's hard to get me to eat my veggies, especially now.
Speaker 2:How about Buchanan Arms? Oh wow.
Speaker 3:Boy, uh, we kind of uh um no no, no.
Speaker 2:Third and Palm. No, this was on Burbank Boulevard.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, that's the one that is now the pirates, the pirates restaurant. That's what it is. No, pirates Cove was down the street a little. The one we're thinking of be Canada. You can't, oh, we better drive.
Speaker 4:You're driving the bus, man we gotta go take a tour. It sounds like an excursion it does, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:okay, where else do I have? We have one here. We had a oh Frank's, which has now been reduced to being a movie prop set. Yeah, there's a little funny story about that. It's on the front. On the front they have the big sign out there and we went there for lunch one day and on the side it says pies. Oh, I always have a good pie for dessert. So I go well, what are your pies? He goes, oh, we don't have any. I go, well, but you're, it's just oh, one of the movie. People put that at the time there we like, so we just kept it up there the prop sign I saw.
Speaker 4:I was like on, I forgot what social media was either facebook, reddit or one of them but somebody made a post and it went a little viral and they just made a joke saying the other day I almost walked into frank's on the movie set and they had video of them like literally walking into the movie set. They were like I ran into zendaya and tom holland not knowing it was a movie set. I just wanted a pie well, here's one for you.
Speaker 3:You know, we just lost norm from back cheers. What about Dalts? Everybody remembers Dalts.
Speaker 2:Oh, what about Dalts? Were you a Dalts person?
Speaker 3:You remember Dalts Riverside and Olive Olive Inside. There was a McCormick Schmitz there.
Speaker 4:Yes, I remember that Dalts was the original restaurant down there.
Speaker 2:Oh, tons of celebrities.
Speaker 3:They had good burgers. Oh, they did Fish and chips, good shakes. Now we learned a secret. There's another one, craig, and I learned Gary Brick, and I wouldn't drop his name like an ex-mayor or anything, but he had a restaurant out there on Hollywood Way, just outside of Burbank, outside of Burbank, outside of Burbank.
Speaker 2:People think that Burbank the zip code does not make you into the city.
Speaker 3:Who did we have an argument with just three days ago about not being in Burbank? But we used to go in there. He had a good burger, a great burger, one of the best burgers. But he told us the secret of how to construct a burger. You take the bun and you put the mayonnaise on it first yeah, that way. And then you put a piece of lettuce and your tomato. That way your juices from your burger don't infiltrate your bun on the bottom so that first bite, you bite into the bun.
Speaker 2:The worst thing you can have is a soggy bun. Oh yeah, I always know that soggy buns do oh, excuse me.
Speaker 3:So back to burgers.
Speaker 4:First we're talking about having large buns, now soggy buns. Come on, Ross, this is a family show.
Speaker 3:This is true, but he told us and he stayed up on the burgers dudes list for a long time. We learned. So now when I make burgers I think a gary brick. I don't think of him just for that, but he did have a great restaurant that is now just called the ramp, I think. But that's what craig and I learned when we used to go in there and it was only like four, four, ninety, five or five dollars. Good price, good price.
Speaker 2:So what about Public House? Nowhere, ooh.
Speaker 3:That one, I don't know. Oh, public House, san Fernando Road at Palm, nope, nope, no, no no Public House, nowhere.
Speaker 2:Now it's an Italian place, mariposa and Burbank, little red building on the corner. Oh, now it's what is it called now? It's an Italian restaurant. It's called Public House. Nowhere At one time, you're right.
Speaker 3:How about the Office Ooh On Burbank Boulevard at Keystone? Nope Victory and all the way.
Speaker 4:Right next to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Speaker 2:Now it's a game place. Yeah, now it's a guild hall. Guild hall absolutely. What else do we have on here? California Eatery.
Speaker 4:I can picture it. I remember this. I like their food.
Speaker 2:And what's there now?
Speaker 3:California Eatery. I can visualize it.
Speaker 2:What was there before it? Let me try that.
Speaker 3:A florist shop.
Speaker 2:Yes, you're right, it was Conroy's. Conroy's that's right, and now it's BB Cafe.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, that took me back like a few years. I don't go back to gas station years, but that took me back a few iterations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should probably have that one. That's in your.
Speaker 4:Although I keep telling people like, oh, I'm young, I'm young.
Speaker 3:And then the other day I said to my brother, can you pick me up something from Lucky's? And he was like what's a Lucky's? And I was like Albertsons. He was like what? And I was like smart and final. Oh my god, now you, you want to throw him a real wrench someday. Lucky's Market, where the office building is at Pass and Alameda. That used to be a food giant and then they tore it down and built a Lucky's and it had mosaic, blue mosaic, on the outside, the whole place. You entered off in the from the parking lot and that was a lucky's market. Yeah, how many lucky's market did we have in the city? There were two or three, but they.
Speaker 4:They were like the big chain and then it was albertson's and now it's not. It's crazy, crazy.
Speaker 2:It's funny how things keep changing. The longer you're around, the more things change. Here's one for you Andre's Cafe. We're talking about seven or eight years ago now.
Speaker 4:I was going to say this was more downtown, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, andre's was at. I want to say up in the hill, though I was gonna say this is more downtown right, yeah? Yeah, andres was that. Um, I want to say providencia and glen oaks, there's a little shopping center there yeah I remember the one of the best salad bars.
Speaker 3:We don't have salad bars in this city anymore. There was a sizzler at providencia and glen oaks. There was also one at hollywood way in chandler that's not the dentist office.
Speaker 4:I remember that's right oh good, salad bar.
Speaker 3:We don't have a salad bar in burbank, oh man, because after covid they had to take away that good you know, glass thing, you know, and everybody was afraid of anybody touching their own salad.
Speaker 4:I gotta tell you this for all my millennials out there soup plantation, heartbreaking.
Speaker 2:Didn't we have one where Flappers is. I beg your pardon, flappers was a soup plantation. Was it? Was it when they first built that town center? Wow, wow, I'm pretty sure it was a soup plantation.
Speaker 3:See you got both Nikki and I.
Speaker 2:I could be wrong, but I think it was.
Speaker 4:I did not appreciate them enough. When I was a kid, I used to go in there, stack up my plate with everything, and then the dessert was all of the ice cream you could want. There was anything you could want.
Speaker 3:And now I just get to see like the sad, like signs and the remnants of them. Well, you just talk about like smorgasbord. There was one on magnolia boulevard called smorgasbord yes, there was, and you'd walk in one way. It was cafeteria style you get your tray and your plate and you'd walk down this way, and then this way, then this way, but you could put a thousand things and the best part is you can go back 10 times you know we're post-covid folks like let's bring back those buffets.
Speaker 4:If you're listening and you want to start a buffet, come to burbank.
Speaker 2:We lost a buffet up on um, uh, right by burbank, by, uh, by next to the, with the market up there, uh, um's, there's a buffet up there.
Speaker 3:There are Asian Asian buffet.
Speaker 2:We lost that one too Closed. How about Steve's Char-Boiled Burgers?
Speaker 3:Brighton and Victory Boulevard.
Speaker 2:It's now called it's got three renovations, since it's a.
Speaker 3:Mexican restaurant Habanero has a drive-thru. The owner is the nicest guy you will ever meet. You want anything special. It is convenient because it's a drive-thru, and yeah, steve's Burger Steve's was pretty darn good itself.
Speaker 4:You ready for another one? Now I'm having burger FOMO. All the burgers I wish I would have tried.
Speaker 2:Better fresh burger.
Speaker 4:Oh, I remember this that is on it's Olive and Victory there you go. It's now a catering service, isn't?
Speaker 3:it.
Speaker 4:Nora's Catering or something. But I remember, oh I loved those burgers. We'd go with my family all the time after any kind of game we had.
Speaker 3:I was just going to say they offered a special. They were very close to somebody at Burroughs I think they had a kid on one of the teams.
Speaker 2:Well, they always had a fundraiser. You can always do a fundraiser, Exactly.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, that's why we'd go Banded fundraisers there, baseball fundraisers there, and that's why we would head over there whenever we got the chance, yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to give you another one now. Uh-oh, I know you're going to probably know you ready, okay?
Speaker 4:Now I feel like I'm in high school and about to get a test and study.
Speaker 2:Sardos.
Speaker 4:Oh, I do remember this. Where was this?
Speaker 3:next to a big market, oh, am I throwing it off next to a bank, next to a california donut. What was it called? Donut california? Don't. California, don't say that, yeah, california donuts, come on, come on, nicky, it's in your hood and they're parking at the outside place called gil Gilbert's.
Speaker 2:Was that next to Dana?
Speaker 3:Drugs. And was that next to what was the ice cream place at the end? Curry's Ice Cream at the very end. Oh man, oh my god.
Speaker 4:No, yeah, I'm stumped. I remember Sardo's. I do remember the place. I can't tell you where it was, you sure?
Speaker 2:Bank of America, right next door to it.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, was that by the? Oh my God, now it's the chicken place.
Speaker 2:Now it's the chicken place. Yeah, now it's the chicken place.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, I'm forgetting the chicken place Pregnancy brain.
Speaker 2:What's it called now? The chicken place. That's good for me, Right? Ding ding ding, you win. I'll take the chicken place, no problem. I thought you'd remember that, though I remember.
Speaker 4:It was definitely there when I was around the borough's time. We had very select places we could go eat at that time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true, I'll throw one at you. I'll give you 10 points. If you don't remember, because I don't think you were even, I'll show you the points. If she gets it, yeah, but I don't know if she was even conceived yet. Okay, juicy harvey's.
Speaker 4:Oh, easy one, come on now oh, I think that was before my time. Really juicy harvey's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know where that studio called nbc was. Yeah, right across street. It's now called wiener schchnitzel. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4:Oh wow, really there's something there. See, the Wienerschnitzel has been there my whole life, that is I remember, because I used to have the incorrect opinion that Wienerschnitzel just sold alcohol. That's just here in Burbank.
Speaker 3:Now there was another. I always call it a Dell Wienerschnitzel and everybody said it's not Dell Wienerschnitzel, it's just Wienerschnitzel. There was another one in Burbank. Do you know where it is? It is still a famous burger place.
Speaker 4:Is it where the Tommy's is there?
Speaker 3:you go. You can tell by the shape of the building.
Speaker 2:And of course I don't think they did burgers there, but it was next door to Juicy Harvey's on the corner.
Speaker 3:A great bar, oh no, chattanooga's Orange Julius. Orange Julius.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, there was an Orange Julius, yes. Yeah, oh, there were two, the one by the mall is the only one that I know.
Speaker 2:Oh no, there was the one across from the Orange Juice is now called the studio thing. They serve muffins and stuff. Studio Cafe.
Speaker 3:Or Coffee Studio.
Speaker 4:Commissary, commissary, oh Coffee, Commissary. I love throwing these out there.
Speaker 3:Okay, but there was another Juicy Harvey's in town. Not Juicy, no, no, orange Julius, orange Julius. There was another one. You can tell by the building Maine and Alameda Teriyaki Burger used to be Orange Julius. I didn't know that. And here now.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, what's the place called the Teriyaki Burger place? What's that called Yaki Burger? It was called Yaki's. I said they got their name because their burger there is yucky. You would taste teriyaki in the burger. They'd cook it with all the teriyaki stuff. All of my friends, it was terrible.
Speaker 4:Because we had a high school stomach. All of my friends after school, we could walk to Yaki's stomach. All of my friends would. After school, we could walk to yaki's. And this also happened after middle school because I went to uh dolores huerta, which was jordan at the time. All of us would walk down there to yaki's and they would get this abomination that was like a corn dog that was fried and had cheese on the outside. To this day I'm like, if I ever have like stomach problems, that is that's why like that was. It was bigger than our faces and at the time we loved it.
Speaker 3:I don't know that I could tolerate it now okay, now it is a commercial burger place, but they make the best tacos at 2 am and we used to have two of them in burbank. There's only one remaining. Where do you buy your tacos at 2 or 3 am, and we used to have two of them in Burbank? There's only one remaining. Where do you buy your tacos at 2 or 3 am?
Speaker 4:Where do I get my tacos? At 2 am I go to, yes, a taco truck which is right outside of Burbank, but that's so. Nobody can see me. None of my lovely constituents can see me sneaking around at 2 am eating tacos.
Speaker 3:Let's just say jack in the box. Okay, and we did used to have two. Do you know? Remember when there was one across from saint joe?
Speaker 2:yeah, that, I remember this in alameda alameda, I thought you were gonna say uh, del taco, oh yeah, we used to have?
Speaker 4:we had, we had three del tacos and now we're down to two del tacos I would love to see what the burger guy thinks about this, but actually this is a like a deep web opinion, but I I agree with it fully. So the del taco burger is so good okay, thank you, I have, I have.
Speaker 2:I have called it the best 3am burger there is it is amazing yeah, you go there 3, 3 am and have the double del the place is selling. It's amazing.
Speaker 4:The place is selling tacos. They advertise it. It's like it is there on the menu, like that thing, that like.
Speaker 2:It was number nine. I'm not sure what it is now, but it's down there.
Speaker 4:It's one of those things that people just don't they closed the one here by us that had drive-thru.
Speaker 2:I can't drive to the airport anymore.
Speaker 4:I remember the Del Taco was where the Starbucks is. Back in my day, because that's where I grew up, that was my corner. So that was the Carl's Jr and the Del Taco next door. So you had choices.
Speaker 2:And I never went to Carl's Jr for one simple reason no drive-thru Really. Why? For one simple reason no drive-thru, really.
Speaker 4:I would have a drive-thru in that location see, I lived so close that I could walk, so we Halloween vertigo.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I opened that save on drugstore when they opened. I I was, yeah, the for one of the first employees there. In fact, I photographed every the manager, Jim reef has had me as I was, yeah, one of the first employees there. In fact, I photographed every. The manager Jim Reif has had me because I was into photography every item and he had a notebook, so when you were doing stocking you could look in this notebook and know exactly what went where. But that Carl's Jr. Before there was a Del Taco out there, which is now a Starbucks.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But I remember when I tell my grandkids this, a guy had come in and bought liquor at savon and we refused to sell them liquor. He got into his car, put it in reverse, drove through carl's junior into the sidewall, then put it in park and we thought he was coming into savon drug and he and he hit that there's a hydrant.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And there's one of the poles. So you look at it, it's still bent and I thought they were going to come in and get me for selling them liquor. And he didn't buy any liquor from us, but I worked there. I was a Santa Claus there during the holidays.
Speaker 2:Craig used to protect our Christmas tree yeah, you got me a job there when krista's just watching trees all night in their parking lot well, that pole is definitely now on the tour stop that was your.
Speaker 3:I didn't know you because I live right down the street. I, before that del taco was there. I used to park, I had a mail truck and then a cadillac on Verdugo, so from the photo counter inside of CVS I could watch my car, and so you know that corner well. You remember it was a um oh, the pizza place and then there there was a jeweler's garland jewelers and then a couple other places it's. I watched that whole place. It used to be part of the ranch.
Speaker 4:only place that hasn't really changed is the Popeyes. That's, I think, the longest standing place there. But yeah, that Carl's Jr. It was funny. We'd always joke with my friends because who lived in the same area, you know it was walkable for all of us and so we'd always joke around and say, okay, let's go to Carl's Jr Del Taco, because some of us were finicky about wanting del taco, but I was a like committed disciple of that del taco burger.
Speaker 3:it was the best thing on the menu double dell. Years and years and years ago, when before that 7-eleven was on that other corner where the shell station is now, there used to be a oh a corner liquor store before 7-elevens. And I'll forget because I lived on the other side off of Pass. An airplane took off from the airport and crashed right into that store and I remember years and years that. I remember seeing the smoke and all that. That was before I chased police and fire calls.
Speaker 4:Geez Ross, you were witness to how many accidents on that corner.
Speaker 3:Oh, quite a few. In fact, Craig and I remember, on Cordova a helicopter crashed into a Budweiser truck during our school years.
Speaker 2:No, I was 76. I have pictures of that I was 76. That was my first ever news assignment. I shot for the Daily News.
Speaker 3:In fact it was eight houses south of Ron Howard and Clint Howard's house. They lived at Cordova and Oak for many, many years.
Speaker 2:First from the Burbank. That's where they lived. Yep Wow, A block from Stevenson.
Speaker 3:We're talking about that rabbit hole, aren't we? Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, now we're going to see how brave Nikki really is. I'm going to give you two locations that were given to me as the two worst burgers in Burbank.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, so if we don't hear a lot from you, I understand, I understand, but you know you volunteered for this, the first being Ribs USA.
Speaker 4:You know, I've never had a burger from ribs USA, because duh ribs.
Speaker 2:I've had ribs from ribs USA the burger was absolutely terrible there, like eat rubber never had it well when ribs USA, when they open the original loaner.
Speaker 3:I remember I thought it was good, I remember photographing his, all his what year was?
Speaker 4:that oh, 90s, in the mid 90s, I think because I remember mid 90s it was like the place my dad. My dad was like we're getting ribs and that's where we go.
Speaker 2:He had one here and he had one on van nuys boulevard, and I remember shooting photographs of both and he sold it and it fell off the cliff yeah, it really did it just uh, just absolutely horrid no, that's the second one. There you're going to be surprised. Once again. You don't think it was a burger place, but they have burgers corner cottage you know what's funny?
Speaker 4:I was about to make a comment about corner cottage because when, when they obviously again breakfast burritos, like that's what you go to corner cottage for a lot more potato than they used to yeah, yeah and I used to. We know, we know and I, those are my go-to, honestly corner cottage breakfast burritos. Oh, you wanted them before school. You want they were like hefty, like back in the day one of those could hold you like the whole day.
Speaker 3:It weighed you weighed as much as a baby. You got that. That drum roll thing you got over there. I still got it for you, you ready?
Speaker 2:yeah, okay, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 3:There it goes corner cottage. It'll be open on sundays, starting I think I saw June 1st. I just saw posting on social media that first time since they've ever been in business.
Speaker 2:The problem with the burger there is it's the size of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Speaker 4:Now is it still the same though, Because I was going to mention Corner Cottage, because we're talking about restaurants that had great owners and then were potentially going to shut down and somebody else picked them up. I gotta say, with Corner Cottage, I'm glad that somebody bought it when it was at the brink and that the new owners seem to want to really take care of it.
Speaker 2:I will say we'll make sure we get back for another look at them, because that's absolutely true. I'll give you a quick story about how we nearly ruined it I wish we would have now looking at how history went, but back in the day we're talking, oh, back in probably 2000, and I want to say eight. In that area we were doing burger reviews all the time and we went to a place called oh my god, the name just escaped me no, no.
Speaker 2:Wait a second. It's a place that we all hate. What is the place that gave us all the problems? Magnolia? Ooh, you got me Tinhorn Flats. Tinhorn Flats, oh Tinhorn, oh my God, I can't believe I got it. I'm trying to get that out of my mind. It's just so bad. Speaking of places that were picked up by new lovely owners, we went to St Arnold Flats and the burger was just absolutely horrendous. Huge, terrible review.
Speaker 3:And they had a five star his wife or his fiance. The gentleman that owned it, who probably will listen to this His wife was a five star chef Came out and I thought I was going to watch Craig gag.
Speaker 2:Well, we got a note later saying please, please, please. We saw your review. Our business is going down. Nobody's coming in anymore. We've completely changed our burger menu. Would you please come back? And so I waited like a month. And then when we go, we don't tell her there, we just go in video and like what it was actually became one of the best, and it's just because I will say though, craig, you told me how brave am I?
Speaker 4:not brave enough to eat there? Well, not net, no.
Speaker 3:I mean well, it's funny because I've gone in there after that and, yeah, we wouldn't go back.
Speaker 2:But what she did is Nothing. That happened there surprised me. Let me put it that way Exactly.
Speaker 3:She had told us after we went back and the burger dude redid it, she went to Handymart, had meat ordered daily, so it was fresh ground beef that she would only, instead of using frozen hockey pups, you know, on the grill, and she changed her whole burger in the review. We gave a great review and we had one other place I thought you were going to bring up. We watched Dears up there and we watched guys hit little golf balls up there. Oh yeah, what's it called? The Castaway Restaurant? I'm not Castaway up there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, what's it called the Castaway Restaurant? I'm not Castaway. What's our golf course called DeBell?
Speaker 3:DeBell.
Speaker 4:Is that the burger place? Debell has their own restaurant.
Speaker 3:Well, we went in there and do you remember what they said? The burger guy ordered a burger. I think the bread either came out from last week or they just found it in the freezer. Oh no, he wrote the review. Because we don't tell them we're coming in.
Speaker 2:We're Joe customer, as you should.
Speaker 3:Yes, and he bit into it and the bread was so stale and he wrote that. And the bread was so stale and he wrote that. And they said they wrote a letter saying that you guys, the burger guy, ruined our business. Our order, our bread order, didn't come in that day, so we sent somebody to Smart and Final and they bought the wrong rolls so we had to serve our burgers on wrong rolls. Oh no, not my fault, but we did go back and I will say the garlic bread was pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yes, because they stole Smokehouse's recipe.
Speaker 4:Oh man, I've taken the recipe. We can make a mean cheesy bread at home.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:Macaroni and cheese Cheese right. Oh yeah, there you go, craig knows, Back in the 80s, when I was at Burroughs, I actually coached the son of the chef at the smokehouse.
Speaker 3:Oh, now that's the ticket and then he moved up to when they originally offered the bell or whatever it was called. He took his recipe up there, right. And all his food was the same, and then he sold it and the city took it over and a big conglomerate owned it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the city has it now. So that's why I'm like, oh no, I don't want to hear bad things about DeBell, like that's our property right there.
Speaker 2:We've not been there for a while. We've got to give Talk about a few corporate burgers such as Foster's. You know, I was going to say Foster's is a good burger. As a corporate burger, yeah, it's that frozen patty and all that stuff, but the way they put it together it's a good burger.
Speaker 3:Now you want to know a secret. What's the secret? I worked at that Foster Freeze in 1976.
Speaker 4:I think you told me that one.
Speaker 3:I remember making plenty of those burgers. All the police officers used to hang out there because they got free coffee and I'll never forget they had a the family that owned it, the haddad family. They were in trouble with the law all the time so everybody thought the police officers were there because they were in trouble, but they actually served good coffee. But I worked there with some, uh, cheerleaders from burroughs and that's the only reason I applied, because I knew the cheerleaders. But talk about great ice cream and how to make all those.
Speaker 4:You know the triple and everything that's what I think of when I think foster. I think the ice cream.
Speaker 3:Their burgers are still a good and we had another foster freeze in Burbank.
Speaker 4:You know where it was and probably no, that's the one I know, the one that's still up there, if you watch old episodes of Emergence here.
Speaker 2:I don't know You'll see it.
Speaker 3:On Magnolia at Florence. It's across from Nami's. It's an office building. It used to be owned by Mike Cunningham. There was a foster freeze there and where that parking lot is was a pitch and putt.
Speaker 4:Yeah would have never known, given how it looks now pitch and putt, remember, I remember, yep what do you?
Speaker 3:did you ever get?
Speaker 2:that's what northwest park was before it became a baseball field and a library. I was a pitch and putt there too.
Speaker 3:Do you remember going up over the hill? When we say, say over the hill, it means over the freeway right. Right when we're the Cornell Theater. Well, cornell Drive is. There used to be a great big slide there that you used to climb up and you know those metal slides you see at fairs and all yeah, yeah. And they had a little tiny pitch and putt. Six-hole pitch and putt. Six hole pitch and putt there too.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's so cool. That's one of those things I'd love to still see around.
Speaker 2:Let's see here. Let me throw another burger place out here. How about, believe it or not, the Smokehouse. Now you don't go there for the burger, but they have a pretty good burger at the Smokehouse.
Speaker 4:Everything there is eclipsed by their cheesy bread.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and the prime rib on a monday special. I know this monday special is there, trust me there's another one now.
Speaker 3:Everybody, there's quite a few places that offer prime rib smokehouse. Um tally ran um. There's a place, uh, gary bricks used to offer uh all these places at prime Rib. But yeah, for local Smokehouse you kind of can't beat yeah.
Speaker 2:Now, how about this place? This is a very interesting story. Champs Sports Bar. Oh yeah, they were not very good. Bar Rescue went in there and did a Bar Rescue episode in there and right after Bar Rescue left, the guy threw everything out that a Bar Rescue episode in there and right after Bar Rescue left, the guy threw everything out that the Bar Rescue did. And I went there before Bar Rescue and the burger was terrible. I went back there probably eight months ago. Burger, the food was fantastic. So I think he figured out. Okay, it's about the food, yeah.
Speaker 4:It really is.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you go to a sports bar, you go anywhere. It really is. Yeah, I mean, if you're a sports bar, you go anywhere.
Speaker 4:It really is about the food. My biggest like Knowledge of champs is really just like it was the bar from the George Lopez show. They changed the name and I was just like wait, I know this place and they just changed the leg colors, the name. That's how I always knew champs.
Speaker 2:Now we know, we know about all of the famous shooting of Bob's Big Boy, right, oh yeah, and the celebrities such as the Beatles being there.
Speaker 4:They have a lot of celebrities on their wall, including a picture of the mayor of the city of Burbank. That's one of my trivias. If you look at the wall at Bob's, I am in one of the pictures Really In full marching band uniform. Really there's a back part, I'll tell you where you go find it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna do the rest of getting there, aren't we?
Speaker 3:trivia. We're adding to our trivialist here. Blake, can I ordered lobster now with a little lobster bits. Maybe I'll pick it up about five o'clock tomorrow, lobster, we were told your lobster is delicious.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:So Makes me lobster mean burger. What doesn't he do? How about this place Kids?
Speaker 2:How about this place, hill Street Cafe? Oh, oh, I remember this. Yeah, it's still there and that was a. Originally it was a what?
Speaker 4:I don wait really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a bob's sure, if you look at it, you'll see the bob's architecture and before that there was another one down on san fernando road at providence.
Speaker 4:Oh that I knew.
Speaker 3:That one I knew I did not know the hill street one it was a hill street or it was bob's, and then it was um a coffee shop.
Speaker 4:Uh, I'm trying to think the name of it, I think yeah, caro's, and then something else, and then juan bought it and now it's hill street you know how people get basically married to their neighborhood in burbank, right like like you tell me about the media district or magnolia park and I can tell you where everything is. I've been to every restaurant there. The minute we start talking about downtown, I'm like, oh, that is, that is foreign territory, even though it's not. It is 10 minutes away. Well, for my family, we went. We usually were went to church, at saint finn bar, other places. I forgot what happened that week.
Speaker 4:We ended up going to church, uh, uh, up, up there at um saint francis xavier, yeah, so we hadn't gone up there, and that was the novelty of going up there. My dad was like oh, there's this place called Hill Street Cafe. That's how we ended up there. And I gotta tell you remember, didn't get a burger. My brother got a burger. He loved it, but I had a chicken pot pie and I loved it.
Speaker 2:Their food is very, very fresh and the soups it's hearty soups are amazing. They do a tomato bisque on Mondays. I Love to go to tomato bisque. I just love one.
Speaker 3:Fantastic. We've got some pretty darn good restaurants in this town, and anybody that listens to this. Now you know.
Speaker 2:How about Story Tavern?
Speaker 3:There you go Now it's Story. Tavern, Now tater tots. Aren't they the home of tater tots? Yes, they are. I think we need to do find that other rabbit hole, either the squirrel or the gopher hole, and I want to talk to her about burritos and breakfast burritos.
Speaker 4:Well, you know.
Speaker 2:That is one of my staple foods, Ross, we can always do another show here you know I could talk about food all day.
Speaker 4:I want to do the burrito burrito episode, but we have to do an ice cream episode.
Speaker 3:that is now. You're in trouble. Yeah, you are in trouble. Walking distance to an ice cream store, I don't think I'd have to move. I would.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry you are too close to an ice cream store so if, if they said right now, okay, the rest of your life you're gonna have one dessert and one dessert you know cake, a pie, ice cream, what what are you gonna have?
Speaker 4:well, first of all, I would like destroy that person because I am not eating one dessert the rest of my life. But what would dessert be? Oh my goodness, that's so hard I have you know to me that's easy.
Speaker 2:To me it's ice cream, easily ice cream I have one of the biggest sweet tooth.
Speaker 4:I have a huge sweet tooth. That's so hard.
Speaker 2:So says the skinniest person in the room. Not right now?
Speaker 4:Oh, that's hard. Well, when everybody asks me, you know everybody will ask you run a lot, you love to run, Do you really like to run? I do like running, but I run not because of health. I run so that I can eat what I want.
Speaker 3:Well, that's nice, you know, having somebody in this room a lifelong Burbank resident. You know restaurants in and out. You know it's kind of like when your family wants to go out, it's, you know you know, where you're're gonna go, or you have your certain choices. You know you have berrigan's or you have tequilas. You know you have morrison's.
Speaker 4:That are new and we, we, we have a ton and you have your staples and you remember eating with your family everywhere. Obviously, my family has so many memories of bob's los amigos. We love it. It's right down the street. What was it before los amigos? I don't know what was it oh, it was occasion food.
Speaker 3:We have a friend of mine. That was michael seafood right, michael's. And before that it was perinos arena seafood.
Speaker 3:That was across the street from chad knees that I remember chad knees, um, and now you want to know a secret. Now these people are learning things about this rabbit hole. You know why you can't do anything on that Chadney's property? Why there is a river that goes below it the LA stormwater yeah, that travel and also the power lines are overhead. You can't build up, you can't build down. So that's why Chadney's is a small restaurant the size as it is, which is now Brews Brothers, right, wow, so you're going to learn a lot from this show, can't you? Let's throw out there Well, wait, if you're living over there Alvin's Drugstore, is that before your time?
Speaker 4:That's before my time, but I know, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:How about Vandy Camps? This was an interesting. Well, yeah, vandy Camps was. You don't remember Vandy Camps?
Speaker 4:There's no way. No, that was before. I was even a thought yeah.
Speaker 2:Olive and. Victory oh really yeah, it had a big windmill and everything.
Speaker 3:And what was the place Right behind it After? It's where Centinelli Sent them. Centinella sent them. Centinella the pet food store. No, no, no Again, it was a cafeteria sale. They had a prime rib in the window. The guy would carve it right behind. Oh, chef's Takeout, chef's Takeout, chef's Takeout.
Speaker 2:Chef's Takeout yep, how about? Well, the Castaway has a decent burger too, of all places. Now, who goes to the burger? I don't know.
Speaker 4:But I was going to say I've never had a burger at Castaway.
Speaker 2:And also Talley Ranch. We haven't talked about Talley Ranch or Coral Cafe.
Speaker 4:Oh, I've had a burger at Coral for sure. Yeah, we all have.
Speaker 3:But you know we've talked about a ton of places that have come and gone. Can you just picture the amount of food places that we have now Riverside Drive? Aren't there like 10 different restaurants?
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:There's 20 restaurants in a three block area with no parking. Seriously, I mean, we counted it one day and that's why they keep going out of business. You got to have people walk in and the buildings are all empty now. So how do you go to a restaurant when you can't park in the area?
Speaker 4:I know it's hard. It's getting harder and harder. With like Priscilla's.
Speaker 2:I love their coffee Now do you know where Priscilla's was originally? I don't, ooh, come on.
Speaker 3:It used to be a gas station. It was Atlantic Richfield to be exact. Yeah, and it was next to a Dale's Jr. Not next to a Dale's Jr, not next to him, really, or one intersection over. Guess who worked at that Dale's Jr. Was it you? No, it was him. That was me, oh look at that.
Speaker 2:One day I actually even bought it and changed the name to Tuca Mart.
Speaker 4:Yep, wow, my gosh.
Speaker 2:And then no money in that, so off I went.
Speaker 4:So Priscilla's.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love Priscilla's. Oh, I love priscilla's. Okay, and it was on, it was um, on the corner of um riverside. It's where the marsh theater is yeah, that was priscilla's.
Speaker 4:If you haven't had a blueberry iced coffee, you haven't lived.
Speaker 3:You have to try a blueberry iced coffee really, and I will say you know, giving you know, we have star Starbucks on every corner, inside of every store. I'm not a coffee drinker, I don't drink, I'm not.
Speaker 3:I like iced coffee, but think of Priscilla's, where it was, where it is now. Shannon and her husband are doing a great job in there. They have a clientele. She sits on the Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce because I work with her, I do their photography and they have a clientele that is so religious to them. Yes, even with a Starbucks 30, 40 feet across the street, people still love.
Speaker 4:Priscilla's. They've kept. I don't know how they do it in this economy, but they've kept their prices reasonable. They're so nice, it's a welcoming space and their menu is so good their coffee too. I'm a huge coffee person, ross. We could do that, that episode, and I'd be all over that. We got a lot of episodes to do, don't we?
Speaker 2:We'll use a food segment, we'll go on and I think we have a new third partner on our shows here. I am all game what I just see here. I just saw a place, uh, I wanted to bring up oh courtside cafe.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, oh really, yeah, you've been there. Yeah, I think uh, you played. Uh, what did I see you play there once? Uh wasn't a paddle ball or what uh, pickleball, it was tennis, I think I yeah I haven't had their burger, though.
Speaker 4:It's interesting because every time I go they're so nice, they're like you're under the rush, you're always like coming in and out, do you want something? And nine out of ten times I'll get a croissant or something like very quickly.
Speaker 3:Next time I'll be like so your burger there you go good to know, you know and you look, if you somebody that has been around this city for as long as I have, how, that tennis court, you know it's run privately, yes, through the city, it's city property but they host so many things for they host so many things for para-athletes, for the mentally.
Speaker 4:So they're, amazing.
Speaker 3:They are.
Speaker 4:They work with so many groups, steve Starleaf is phenomenal, steve and his wife just.
Speaker 4:He, oh my gosh. I hope I have as much energy as Steve one day, but he's wonderful. He does so many events. He works with Acing, aut, with um, now with our adaptive sports, doing the first adaptive tennis. Gotta have a big shout out to dara, who's an amazing tennis player, this young woman from burbank here who wants to be in the paralympics, and I think she'll get there. She's phenomenal, you know. So they, they do so many great things and I did not know that their burger was one of them.
Speaker 2:There you go. I'll give you another place, too, that you probably don't think about as a burger place, and I did. I will say this I did have one the other day after practice, and it wasn't what it used to be, so I'm a little bit. I wanted to have a new owner there now, but their breakfast burritos people have always talked about and but their breakfast burritos people have always talked about and that's apollo's apollo magnolia and glen oaks.
Speaker 3:So I'm seeing that's the thing when you have they do have new owners, I know, and they change the landscape and all um. They're known for their breakfast burrito uh yeah apollo, it's right. Like you know, larry's is known for chili dog or chili burger. Yeah, I mean absolutely Chili cheeseburger. Where is that?
Speaker 4:Larry's lives bread free in my dreams Somewhere. I mean.
Speaker 3:Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, but you know these other people that have taken over, like for breakfast burritos, and then you know they're known for that. Don't try to do a burger, folks, you can't sometimes.
Speaker 2:Well, I just think, if you're going to do a burger, no matter who you are, whatever, if you're going to do a burger, that's great, but have some pride in it. Yeah, have some, you know, serve something that you want to eat yourself, that you'd be proud to serve to your family.
Speaker 4:Hamburgers are so American that it's one of those things where people know when you do it right, people know when you do it wrong there's a wrong way.
Speaker 2:You know, and and we, that's our staple food we yeah, if you can't get a burger, right, then what makes you think you can get anything else?
Speaker 3:you know how about we didn't ever list uh? Hamptons oh yeah, little hamptons remember and do you know what Hamptons was before it was Hamptons? Do you know where Hamptons?
Speaker 4:was no. Where was it it?
Speaker 3:was at. Moe's.
Speaker 4:Oh really, yes, oh my gosh, I did not know that and before.
Speaker 3:That.
Speaker 4:I'm like learning a whole new landscape of Burbank before my time.
Speaker 3:Before that. No, it was House of Pancakes.
Speaker 2:And not only the House of Pancakes and not only the House of Pancakes, the very first one ever. The original made in 1959.
Speaker 4:Really, Huh, I did not know that.
Speaker 2:It's funny it was after Moe's shut down. You still see the steeple kind of in the very front. That's funny Because that was the way it was set up. But I actually sent an email to IHOP's headquarters and said this is now empty. This was your first ever location. Burbank is a happening city. It's a great area. You should come back here and redo that place, because you had the third Bob's Big Boy ever. Now you'll have the first pancake house ever right there. Didn't return my email.
Speaker 4:Man, they still have the one that's up in San Fernando, right Like on San. Fernando yeah.
Speaker 4:You know what? Ihop is one of those places for me where, like you know, you said you went back and you tried something and it wasn't as good. I got to tell, tried something and it wasn't as good. I gotta tell you that that's what I remember. Post-prom, we all went to ihop because it was one of the few places that was open that late and had breakfast food and it was, you know, close to the freeway and so, you know, got off the freeway, went there and I still remember these are my favorite things.
Speaker 4:Talking about desserts, they had the double chocolate chip pancakes. So it was chocolate pancake. The actual dough was chocolate with chocolate chips in it, chocolate sauce in the middle. It was probably like a sugar nightmare. It was so good. I went back as an adult and ordered the chocolate chip pancakes, thinking they were the same ones. It's just regular pancake with chocolate chips on it and I don't know. It's just regular pancake with chocolate chips on it and I don't know. I feel like they could see like like five-year-old and 15-year-old me's disappointment in my eyes because I just looked at them like, oh, thank you, that's.
Speaker 3:That's well one of the things that I want to bring back, and again, I probably before your time. Um, there used to be a place on burbank called baron's baron's coffee shop and it was uh, they were known for their pancakes and connie baron. There used to be a place on Burbank called Barron's Coffee Shop and they were known for their pancakes and Connie Barron, who we know. She works for the school district. She still has her dad's recipe and she does it for the Burroughs Choir all the time. That's one of the things I'd love to get her if we'd put Burbank on parade back and do a good old pancake breakfast with her cooking her dad's pancakes.
Speaker 2:I'm going to give you another place, though, that you don't think of as a burger place. I think it was as a breakfast place We've talked about before you. Ready Eat in park.
Speaker 4:Eat in park.
Speaker 2:Huh with some burger, yeah Huh.
Speaker 4:With some burger.
Speaker 2:Yeah, huh, because they do lunch there.
Speaker 4:Yep, they do, that's true, I don't think I've ever been for lunch. Definitely had breakfast, but not lunch.
Speaker 3:Should I tell her?
Speaker 2:You tell her. Okay, what was it Ross he's?
Speaker 3:got a story that's going to. That had me baffled also for a while. Burbank police officers they have to check off where they go to lunch all the time. So this one officer, frank roth they used to call him casper because he, you know, real light blonde hair and kind of white skin and all called him casper. Casper, where are you checking off for code seven? Eaton park, eaton park. So one day after a month or two, or three, or four, maybe five.
Speaker 2:Hold on before you go any farther. When you think of Eden, what else do you think of when you think of Eden?
Speaker 3:I drove up and down.
Speaker 2:Come on now. You are a Burbank person. What else do you think besides Eaton Park? What else do you think besides Eaton?
Speaker 3:I literally drove up and down Eaton Drive ten times looking for Eaton Park. What else do you think besides Eaton? I literally drove up and down Eaton Drive 10 times looking for Eaton Park. I went up to this officer and I said, hey, frank, where the hell is Eaton Park? And he says it's a restaurant in Buena Vista.
Speaker 4:Greg, you underestimate how much of a fat kid I am. I would have never thought that I'd be like Eatonon park. He's having a breakfast us.
Speaker 2:I was, because we we always do, you know ran all the calls. So our job was always know all the streets in burbank.
Speaker 3:So you say, eaton, oh, I know where he did this, you know I went up there, I went down, I went up, I looked in everybody's driveway. We thought it was up on.
Speaker 2:You know how they have the uh, what's the field up? There us on the very end like brace. There's one that's farther down though, near station 16. It's a little little park with one little baseball field there or something. Anyhow, we thought it's one of those kind of places Like a Santa need a play lot. You know, I literally want to eat in.
Speaker 4:Park park. The first thing I hear is eat in park he looked at me like eaton park.
Speaker 3:We eat at eaton park. I was so embarrassed about eaton park. There's no eaton park up on eaton drive like I, I am food based.
Speaker 4:If you say the word corral, I say cafe yeah well, you know, we've touched on plenty of burgers.
Speaker 3:We got to enjoy some tater tots. Before we indulge in this, I'm going to break the code of silence here. Oh, you know. But yes, burbank has a ton of fantastic eateries. There's brand new ones every single day. Magnolia park I just saw a cafe, 1986 I think, or cafe um, it's a brand new.
Speaker 4:Oh, cafe 86. Cafe 86 ube latte. Have an ube latte there.
Speaker 2:They're delicious everybody's telling me you want to serve food also, or yeah, okay, sweets vietnamese or um I believe it's vietnamese, but they, they.
Speaker 4:So, um, one of the popular coffees that like took over la. You know, it was all about matcha for a little bit and then it's all about, you know, pistachio coffee. You know, there's always something new. When the ube craze hit, they opened up and they. They have one in northridge too, which which I used to go to, so I'm happy that I don't have to drive all the way to northridge now, but they have an ube latte. For folks that don't know, ube is that purple root? And if you ever have like taro, is it?
Speaker 2:sweet or it's sweet.
Speaker 4:It's sweet, it's definitely it's it's potato based, but it doesn't taste like potato. It's sweet, it's. It's a very nice like soft, like sweet taste and if you've ever had like boba, there's ube boba oh my goodness there we go okay, we just did our best of burbank show and we did our 2024 edition and face called 25.
Speaker 1:no, we did a 2024 division right and there was the boat.
Speaker 2:What's it called all about?
Speaker 3:time Boba, all About Boba or something, Anyhow it was.
Speaker 4:We have a few.
Speaker 2:And everybody went to it. I said no, and this year, of course, we get to the Boba place again. They go. Well, you bet I go. No, I have to go have Boba sometime the next month.
Speaker 4:Let's get in the tour bus. That's part of the stops. I have no idea what it is.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love Boba, this new place on Magnolia.
Speaker 3:It's kind of about Lima. It's on the north side of the street, it's brand new. They came to a mixer that we had in Magnolia Park Yummy, yummy food. I mean great people. Right next to it is Bone Juice yes, another place. You know, we talk about burgers and we talk about fantastic eateries. In town there's a lot of tiny little businesses that restaurants are very, very hard. As Gary Brick would say, if you don't own the land, you're working for somebody. Yeah, but I'll tell you our restaurants restaurants. It's nice to see in our economy where people are dying, people are coming to burbank to open up restaurants it is nice to see and we want more restaurants here in burbank.
Speaker 4:We want, I really think quality of life is also that right, and I say that somebody who loves to eat. But I don't want to see a starbucks on every corner. No hate to starbucks. I don't want to see a chain on every corner. I want options. I love having that ability to try different mom and pop things, because, guess what, when I go to magnolia, maybe sometimes I want a strong coffee from porto's, maybe sometimes I want that ube latte because I'm feeling something sweet. Another time I'm going to go to romancing the bean. I love having the option to support all the local businesses there.
Speaker 2:The palm I was there the there the other day. You go to Larry's the Deluxe Chili Cheeseburger and then you walk right next door to that Sliders Right to Sliders for your dessert.
Speaker 4:Don't tell me about Sliders.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 4:I will say. I'm going to say this, though as a pregnant lady, I have one bone to pick with Larry's.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh.
Speaker 4:Why is he not open at 3 am, when I'm craving chili cheese fries?
Speaker 2:That's correct. Why is he not there at 4 in the afternoon? Even I get out for practice and I go. Oh, I could really use Larry's right now.
Speaker 4:If you're listening to this 3 am.
Speaker 3:John is in there at 6 am and I've shared this. My son works in the lighting industry in the studio. My son will call John he has his personal phone number at 5 in the morning and tell John I need 30 breakfast burritos at 6.30. John will go in and prep everything, have them ready in a heated container.
Speaker 3:My son will take them to America's Got Talent or Dancing with the Stars. He is the most loved employee that brings breakfast. They all know and john knows if. If my son is um has dietary restriction, yeah, john will make it exactly how he wants. People don't understand you want something or you need something, ask john. But he will get up. He will be there at six in the morning cooking 30 breakfast burritos for guys and see ross.
Speaker 4:Ross and I were talking a little before the show and one of the things I didn't know and if anybody else out there is like me who loves a breakfast burrito with tater tots, they make their breakfast burrito with tater tots, so I will be there tomorrow morning if you want to find me well, john, you know he and talk about you.
Speaker 3:You know restaurant owners, it's hard, it's really hard. You got people complaining. I look on social media and people will make one comment about oh, I went here to eat and it wasn't this perfect. Everything isn't perfect, folks, and you know, when you jump on that bandwagon, oh, I didn't like something. Everybody has this social media and they think, oh, I can answer this, blah, blah, blah. Think about the families that those restaurant owners employ, all those employees.
Speaker 3:And so John's been there, oh, 25 years. Oh, yeah, and it's him and his wife. I remember his daughter when she came out of high school, she worked there and now she's going to college. Wow, when she came out of high school, she worked there, now she's going to college. You know, and that's the thing, little businesses like that. So my, my take on this is love these tiny places. We now have handles. Ice cream sliders is still. Is this, I'll still go into sliders. You know he makes custom flavors, but handles I got it. I got to tell you this. You know, nikki Perez here told me, I got to tell you this. You know, nikki Perez here told me I got to try their Bing cherry or their cherry ice cream. I was in there a couple weeks ago and got to taste that it's their black cherry.
Speaker 4:Let me tell you if, okay, If we're going about.
Speaker 2:We're off the burger. That's okay. That's okay, people, this is down the rabbit hole, right? You know what If you don't?
Speaker 4:have to have dessert after your burgers, so you gotta try a little ice cream. You gotta have dessert, unless you drink your milkshake with your burger. Either one is acceptable, but handles. I gotta tell you, I tried that first scoop of black cherry ice cream and if you grew up around here, it took me back to thrifties. Oh yes, back in the day, thrifties, when they would give you that cone the round cone, yes, the round cone. Oh my God, it tasted like thrifties from like 1990. So that actually took me back.
Speaker 3:I'll break the silence here the mayor, who happens to be also in the room today for another show that she did, but she and I did a ribbon cutting at. Handles and I let her lick the scoop. Oh, I wasn't supposed to say lick the scoop, was I? Oh well, she did have a. Did you have three on that, or four? Then you had a cup, then you had. No wonder that kid didn't fit well.
Speaker 4:May have been the equivalent of an entire pint of ice cream on a cone.
Speaker 3:But I will tell you they gave me a pint to go home. It didn't all. It didn't make it all the way home. Almost they are the nicest people running that it's a young couple. She's eight months pregnant.
Speaker 4:She is also expecting we are around the same timeline.
Speaker 3:But you talk about great. I love to see a new young couple take over a business like this and their employees and all were bright and chervy. I drove by last night at quarter to 10. And there's still a line around the place. Oh yeah, nightly. How late are they open? Until 11 usually, wow yeah. And think of all those apartment dwellers. Um, a lot of people that from lakeside and uh, what's the school here in?
Speaker 3:new york may not be one of those apartment dwellers well, new york film academy uh, a lot of people live there, talk about it.
Speaker 4:A great place to put an ice cream store when, when we went for the ribbon cutting day, there were folks waiting in line around the block overnight, it was free ice cream for a year. There was part of me that was very upset that I didn't do it. There was another part of me that was like well, you'd probably be dead in a year because I would make use of that well, like I said uh, used to be another ice cream in that, in that shopping.
Speaker 2:yeah, curry, back in the day, right in the corner where the Starbucks is. Wow, I didn't know. We used to have an ice cream place here on Riverside Drive too. I can't remember what the name of it was.
Speaker 3:Where Dale's was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ah, what was it?
Speaker 3:Ooh, there's one now. They tore it down to build Dale's Right Now. Now there's one that one of our people that might listen from toluca lake might be able to call or email us and share with us. But don't forget you're driving the bus. Olive bistro you're, that's one on your list. We're going to try there and then maybe the next show you and I and craig will share about breakfast burritos, and and then I want to check the lobster bisque. Oh no, that was at your house, that's right.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, You're both welcome to lobster bisque back at my house.
Speaker 3:Well, blake, you know, if you listen to this, I know you're going to be dying laughing. You're going to listen to it. You're going to die laughing with your other half. Enjoys FoodWise and Burger-wise. This has been a great show, I tell you. We reminisce, we've gone down the rabbit hole.
Speaker 4:We've gone down some Burbank history tonight. Yes.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what. If you looked at our other rabbit hole shows people gave us all kinds of. You forgot this, you forgot this and you know what? If we forgot this, put it down here in the comments below. Us, guys, let us know, let us know what we missed, because we'll talk about it next time what is the best burger burger in burbank to you like?
Speaker 3:I want to know, first person that goes up to the dais and talks about some type of food item to our mayor. We will will take you over to Larry's and I will personally buy you a chili cheese dog.
Speaker 4:If you come to the Dias and your public comment is to let me know the best burger in Burbank, bless you, I will love you forever. You might even give an extra one minute right.
Speaker 2:I can imagine that. Okay, well, I think we've done it. I think we've gone down that rabbit hole for a while. And I think we've done it. I think we've gone down that rabbit hole for a while and I know we missed places. I know we missed places. Put it in the comments, let us know. Okay, right after you hit the Like button, right after you subscribe.
Speaker 3:Those are important things to do, but sometime on one of our next shows, like you said, the tater tots, to make a burrito with tater tots instead of shredded potatoes. If people on one of our next shows the different things that you suggest write to us, tell us you know, because we'll investigate. She's driving the bus.
Speaker 2:We will go out there. Well, send us an email to news at myburbankcom and say in the subject line put breakfast burrito and we'll I'll forward them to everybody else and we'll look it over. Right, you know, we want to know too. We want to learn.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I've been here 69 years. I will say last week 69 years. I don't think I was eating breakfast burritos the first couple of years, but I'll tell you I've tried a lot of burritos in this town, a lot of burgers, a lot of food. I didn't get up to this weight just eating oatmeal and milk, you know. But I'll tell you this is a fun show to do. We all eat, I don't care what you say.
Speaker 4:Listen, I got two mouths to feed right here. If people have suggestions, I'm all ears.
Speaker 2:There you go All righty Well once again for Nikki Perez and for Ross Benson Boy. I'm tops to you, Craig Sherwood, saying thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate it. If you're only doing this in your car and listening to the podcast, keep two hands on the wheel, Everybody else. We'll see you next time, Bye.
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