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Burger Time
Apr. 16, 2013
USC’s The Daily Trojan Savages The Counter’s New Burger Concept The place is short on atmosphere and the prices add up a little too quickly for one University alum.
By Hadley Tomicki
Burger Time
Feb. 15, 2013
The Counter Launching Its Own Fast-Casual Concept: Built Custom Burger The new concept follows other recent shrink-jobs like Oleego by Park’s BBQ and Umami’s U-Mini.
By Hadley Tomicki
Burger Time
Jan. 23, 2013
Dog Haus Dominates Pasadena Cheeseburger Challenge The Counter and new Slater’s are also big winners, stealing the sunshine of Umami and iconic Pie ‘n Burger.
By Hadley Tomicki
New Menu at Spice Table; Open House at FarmShop on Sunday Chef Bryant Ng’s new roster of dishes was inspired by a recent trip to Southeast Asia.
By Hadley Tomicki
User’s Guide
Mar. 15, 2012
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Feb. 24, 2012
By Hadley Tomicki
Burger Time
Jan. 26, 2012
The Counter Rolls Out At Home Burger Bar, Bets On The Super Bowl You could get your burgers free if the second half kick-off goes off in a certain way.
By Hadley Tomicki
Writer Joel Stein Eats Asian Sloppy Joes, Makes David Chang’s Brussels “I don’t particularly like fries, which makes me a freak. I’m not grossed out by them, I just don’t appreciate them the other way people do.”
By Lesley Balla
Freddy Smalls Bar and Kitchen Opens Tonight at 5:30 P.M. in West L.A. The neighborhood gets its first peek at former Ubuntu chef Jeremy Fox’s SoCal menu tonight.
By Hadley Tomicki
Other Cities
Nov. 7, 2011
L.A. Is Getting a Major Injection of S.F. Talent Jeremy Fox is just consulting for now, and will be headed back north soon.
By Jay Barmann
Celebrity Settings
Sept. 16, 2011
By Hadley Tomicki
Score Free Fries Today at The Counter and Epic Burger Here’s a guide to eating free French fries all day long.
By Nick Kindelsperger
Marketing Gimmicks
July 29, 2011
If An Impending Financial Crisis Won’t Move You, Maybe Free Fries Will? The Counter will give you free fries, as long as Congress “figures this thing” out by August 2nd.
By Hadley Tomicki
Yoplait Yanks Yogurt Ad; Where To Get Deep-Fried Kool-Aid Balls Concerned that its latest commercial encourages eating disorders, activists force the yogurt giant’s hand.
Superior Donuts Actor Gary Cole Eats at Chain Restaurants, Is a“Once in a while, I may go back and do a little more cereal again when I get home. I’m a cereal junkie. When in doubt, eat cereal.”
By Hadley Tomicki
Neighborhood Watch
Mar. 14, 2011
Post-Marathon Madness at Shangri-LA; Green Beer and Free Shakes at The Counter In other news, Dakota Weiss starts cooking at The W Westwood and Olio PIzzeria is back in business.
By Hadley Tomicki
A Look into Umami Burger’s Studio City Space and Beer Selection, Open Today The new Umami strives for the long-gone glamor of Hollywood past and surprisingly shares the street with The Counter.
By Hadley Tomicki
Daily Fresh Deli Opens on Ocean Park Quick-service Vienna hot dogs rule this new neighbor to The Counter.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Counter Opens on Miracle Mile, Now With Umami-Like Craft Beer This marks the burger chain’s ninth local location, giving the colossal food truck convoy a serious brick-and-mortar foe to contend with.
By Hadley Tomicki
A ‘Hamburger You Must Eat Before You Die’ Comes to Times Square The Counter is the latest gourmet burger chain to invade New York.
By Daniel Maurer
Celebrity Settings
Oct. 22, 2010
Where Will President Obama Eat Today? Will The U.S. President go to Red O out of loyalty or do the right thing and stay Downtown for Rivera?
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Sept. 22, 2010
Miley Cyrus Hits Valet’s Car and Runs; Sandra Bullock Spotted at Red O The young pop singer might have dodged criminal charges by bailing the scene.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
Sept. 16, 2010
Gold Going Out With Langer’s Pastrami, But Probably Not Going Back To The Yard The L.A. Weekly critic makes some premature preparations for his funeral, which definitely won’t include C.J. Jacobson’s pulled pork sliders.
By Hadley Tomicki
Empire Building
Aug. 16, 2010
Menchie’s Headed to Ocean Park Courtyard The self-serve fro-yo chain is expanding rapidly.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
July 21, 2010
Waitress Bends Beckham’s Ear; Jack Osbourne Mocks Mel at Voyeur Let’s hope the soccer star stays close to Snoop Dogg’s side and doesn’t follow the lead of buddy Tom Cruise.
By Hadley Tomicki
Empire Building
July 19, 2010
The Counter’s Coming to Miracle Mile The Santa Monica-born burger chain will replace Koo Koo Roo.
By Hadley Tomicki
Empire Building
June 22, 2010
The Counter Brings Its 300,000 Burger Combos to Torrance Having just received best burger nods up North and announcing a New York location, the build-your-own-burger shop looks to the South Bay.
By Hadley Tomicki
BayList Best Burger Winner Is in Palo Alto? The Counter in Palo Alto takes the prize, and so do a few others we don’t agree with.
By Jay Barmann
Neighborhood Watch
June 15, 2010
A Six-Course Austrian Dinner at Seasonal; the Counter Comes to Manhattan Plus: an Erbaluce wine dinner at I Trulli in Gramercy, and the Highlands team takes over the old Allen & Delancey on the Lower East Side, all in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
Empire Building
Mar. 16, 2010
West Hollywood Gets The Counter this Monday An L.A. burger chain reveals a sixth location.
By Hadley Tomicki
Radhika’s Reincarnated in South Pasadena A traditional Indian restaurant will become a “Modern Indian Bistro.”
By Hadley Tomicki
Empire Building
Feb. 18, 2010
The Counter Tries to Conquer the World The budding build-your-own burger chain has its origins in Santa Monica.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Dec. 16, 2009
Justin Timberlake Eats Counter Burgers with Biel; Raekwon Recommends More Fish Justin Timberlake had a date at the Counter and a Wu Tang rapper loves Penguin in Mid-City.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Counter Flops in Utah; Hunger Rises Globally The Counter’s Utah store is closing after just a year, and worldwide hunger has grown.
By Hadley Tomicki
Neighborhood Watch
Sept. 25, 2009
Akasha Lounges on the Weekends; Bar Marmont’s Menu Feels Fall Inspiration Bar Marmont adds fall menu dishes and Akasha starts a new lounge in its bakery.
By Hadley Tomicki
Neighborhood Watch
Aug. 31, 2009
Empire Opens on Cahuenga Corridor; La Cachette Bistro Finally Open in Santa Steve Marlton starts his Empire nightclub on the Cahuenga Corridor, while La Cachette Bistro is done with delays and opens in Santa Monica.
By Hadley Tomicki
User’s Guide
July 14, 2009
By Aileen Gallagher
Luxury Wine Market Plummets; Whitney Aycock in at Counter Plus: butchers as sex symbols, and Joe Jr. up for rent, all in our morning news roundup.
By Leila Cohan-Miccio
Counter Offer Counter is now giving away free appetizers at the bar Sunday through Thursday.
By Daniel Maurer
Foodievents
Feb. 13, 2009
Buddhist Delight? Does enlightenment lie in turnip soup and soybean jelly?
By Daniel Maurer
Neighborhood Watch
June 18, 2008
Quality Meats Testing Its Own Ice-Cream Brand; Wild Bill Clinton Eats at Hill Artisanal now serves serious steak and Oceana will have a raw bar when it moves, in today’s neighborhood food news.
What’s the City’s Greenest Restaurant™? Self-described “vegetarian bistro” Counter, home of the iridium martini, has become a Certified Green Restaurant™ (we’re required to put a ™ after that, or they’ll force us to drink iridium). Becoming a truly green restaurant in the eyes of the Green Restaurant Association doesn’t happen overnight, but Counter has taken the initial steps by using nontoxic chemicals, energy-efficient lighting, recycling used fryer oil, and using occupancy-sensing lights. Not all green restaurants seek the GRA’s blessing (take what might be the greenest of them all, Birdbath), but for good measure we broke the certified restaurants down according to their current ratings.
Reality Check: Counter’s $665 Organic Iridium Martini (Yes, $665) How does one celebrate the purchase of a $330,000 truffle? How about with the “World’s Most Expensive Organic Martini,” preposterously priced at $665 (because $666 would be evil). It’s now on the menu at vegetarian hangout Counter, and the ingredient of note is iridium, an element that the menu tells us is “believed to have powered the Ark of the Covenant” (and also “may cause irritation of the digestive tract”!) Actually, it only contains a couple of drops of the stuff, for shits and giggles (you can’t taste it; we tried). So why, then, is the drink so damned expensive?
Chef Cliques Revealed; More T-Day Dining Options Frank Bruni tries to put the chef network together and finds that Jimmy Bradley hangs out with Joey Campanaro of little owl and Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto. David Chang opts to stick with the “WD-50 gang.” [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
Theater-district restaurants, including Barbetta and Kyotofu , are offering 15 percent off their menus this week (except on Thanksgiving) in light of the Broadway-strike breakdown. [NYC Visit via Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
Related: Theater Strike Could Drop Curtain on Midtown Restaurants
Masa may be one of the most expensive restaurants in New York, but it’s almost chump change in the rest of the world, considering Tokyo’s Aragawa “an eight-ounce piece of Kobe steak from a sake-fed Wagyu cow” for $400. [Forbes]