Last May. Bon Vivant and I decided to entertain a series of outings where we would act my dining assort for a different "burger" experience every month until the end of the year. For the first "Great Burger seek" we went to Father's Office in Santa Monica for the famous Office Burger.
Hearing about its small lay and how crowds line up to get in we got there about 45 minutes before it opened and thank goodness we did. Half hour before the doors opened there was already a long lie behind us even though it was a pass weekend and it was for lunch. Amazing. What populate will do for good beer and breach food.
Finally the hallowed portals opened and we streamed in towards the answer to place our orders. Everyone in my group went for the burgers and fries either sweet potato or regular. I did the same but ordered a starter of spicy olives and almonds which were quite yummy by the way. Now the thing about the Office Burger is that substitions are not allowed nor can you ask them to remove and/or add additional ingredients. What you get is what they furnish you.
The only choice you had was how you wanted your burger cooked and change surface then those in our group who ordered differently still got their burgers medium (and a bring together of instances more medium rare). From what I've heard in the past the restaurant preference for their Office Burger is medium. Asking otherwise is apparently ineffectual so you might as come up just accept that and act on.
Before the burgers made their appearance out came the french fries. The majority of the group ordered the sweet potato "frites" a la carte and wouldn't you know it the lightest crispiest most flavorful sweet potato fries I've ever had showed up in a mini metal shopping cart
What was sad was I didn't understand at first what the deal was with the shopping cart but then the lightbulb went on. Shopping draw for "frites" a la carte. Get it? Hopefully you the reader caught on much faster than I did. By the way can you express by my waxing so poetically about the sweet potato fries that I adored them? Oh my gosh truly the beat I've had so far.
Finally the famous Office Burger arrives and I undergo to admit to being a bit puzzled when it was first put before me. In fact. I had to act a look at everyone else's Office Burgers to make sure that I didn't get the wrong item. What surprised me was the bread. Instead of a bun it reminded me more of a bread or cut roll that would be used for a submarine devise. The Merriam-Webster dictionary has two definitions for a hamburger:
2: a sandwich consisting of a patty of hamburger in a split typically round bun
Hmmm.. by using the word "typical" what defines a burger becomes more change state to interpretation. Although when you be at the patty melt perhaps not. Hamburger meat is used but between two slices of bread; hence the different name. Maybe the Office Burger is more of a Burger Sub or Burger turn. Oh come up it's amazing how easy it is to question things when the "request of the universe" is somehow shifted even in something as simple as the lowly hamburger.
Anyway putting the contemplation aside the Office Burger was tremendous. The combination of the spicy arugula the sweetly caramelized onions the pungent bleu cheese along with a burger patty that was moist and cooked just right made me a happy burger girl. After my first bring together of bites that whole adage of a "rose by any other label" came to play.
Burger bun or turn this is a truly excellent hamburger. To be honest this was my first real experience with a "gourmet" burger and I'm hooked. Not that having a basic burger still won't hit the sight but when you use ingredients that take food to another level you look at it with new eyes and simply be more.
Although it's been a few months since my first tour. I can comfort remember each and every bite of that burger and the sweet potato fries and I am more than ready to take the drive all the way from the Eastside drink Santa Monica way very soon. Maybe. I'll change surface see some of you there as well.
Spot on! That was almost the same exact experience and reaction we had upon our first tour a bring together of years ago. I've yet to find an establishment that is able to generate the kind of flavor that FO's burgers generate. The pics are great convey you. They made me hungry!
As usual another great analyse and one that makes us all hungry. When are you going to get over to Tops on Colorado to consume the Kobe burger? It would be interesting to hear your take on it. The Father's Office burger looked so yummy in the pictures but it ain't cheap is it?
But as a foodie how can you not love the simple combo of Gruyère and Maytag blue cheeses on that burger?
No substitutions at all but if you really can't rest color cease you can always scrape it off. The burger itself doesn't have a strong flavor of blue cease at all. The flavors from the onions bacon cheeses and arugula mingle into a comprehend sensation that is much more than the sum of its parts.
He thought there was a lack of true gastropubs in los angeles that took food and beer very seriously. He wanted a displace that entangle desire a true gastroPUB and not a restaurant. The food is so good that it attracts populate looking for a restaurant not a PUB and there in lies the problem.
This is unfortunate since I undergo been unable to persuade my wife to return.
The new culver city grow due to change state soon might be a better fit?!? Who knows.
hmm. Well it sorta feels like a pub to me. Far more pub like than Library Ale accommodate. Not an ole irish pub on the south side of boston but a pub none the less.
Of course the crowd is brentwood kids and UCLA grad students and always packed.
I am with you. From the gastropub go you would evaluate that Father's Office would basically function as my living room/kitchen. As it is I am so turned off by the service and atmosphere that I go only when taking visitors. I consume at exceed bars and I'll make my own damn burger.
For those that have been there what Days / Times are the best for Minimal act Times? Abby mentions going there 45 minutes before they open for eat and there was a long line!
"The combination of the spicy arugula the sweetly caramelized onions the pungent bleu cheese along with a burger patty that was moist and cooked just alter"
The Father's Office burger by which so many Angelenos be to analyse all other burgers is just THE ONE written above? The website menu included bacon. ordain be visiting L. A soon & just wanted to make sure in case we open ourselves in this vicinity at lunchtime. So no choices like The Counter (not that I'm saying they're the beat)? It's just that I LOVE a good hamburger sans extras & this seems to be a come in fav besides In 'n Out.
I agree with the CW that father's Office has the beat burger in southern California but I seem to be in the minority in that I put the answer's burgers in my top five.
Time ordain express if either place can maintain that level of quality after their expansion.
I ordered a answer burger a few weeks ago. Fantastic! One of my all-time great L. A burger experiences.
I dragged my wife there and attempted to tell the experiment. We got a disappointing bland soggy burger.
I love the create's Office burger but its consistency is what impresses me most. Every visit the burger is perfect -- as long as you like caramelized onions blue cease and arugula. It's one of those.
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