Double Play Bar & Restaurant – San Francisco, CA

by justin on September 3, 2010

Long before the New York Giants moved to San Francisco, Bay Area baseball fans would pack Seal Stadium to see the San Francisco Seals play minor league ball. The Seals would leave San Francisco for Arizona after the 1957 season when the NY Giants moved to SF. The Giants would play two seasons at Seal Stadium before moving to their new home – Candlestick Park. Only a few months after the end of the 1959 season, Seal Stadium was demolished. The memory of Seal Stadium lives on at Double Play Bar & Restaurant – a 100 year old establishment that sits across the street from the site of the stadium and was popular with baseball fans for food and drinks before and after games. [click to continue…]

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Kalbi Burger – Los Angeles, CA

by Josh on September 2, 2010

Kalbi Burger

Less than 36 hours after returning to Los Angeles from Seoul, South Korea, I found myself on Wilshire Boulevard passing through Koreatown.  A “grand opening” banner caught my eye and the sign above it read Kalbi Burger.  I’m a big fan of kalbi (Korean short ribs in a ganjang-based sauce) and a burger devotee, so no further enticements were needed.  I walked through the door and picked up a menu. [click to continue…]

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Burger. – Santa Cruz, CA

by justin on September 1, 2010

There are two reasons to go to Santa Cruz – the boardwalk and the beach. Well, ok, I guess there are other reasons, but those have always been the two things that have drawn me to the seaside town. One of the big highlights for me is the eighty six year-old Giant Dipper roller coaster on the boardwalk. I made a trip down to the boardwalk this past weekend with a couple friends specifically to ride the old school wooden coaster – one of the oldest in the country. After a couple of adrenaline producing rides on the Dipper, hunger had set in and we were in desperate need of food. There is no better cure for hunger than a nice juicy burger so we made a bee-line to the newly opened Burger., which we were calling Burger Dot since they use a period in the name. [click to continue…]

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Le Vert – Seoul, South Korea

by Josh on August 31, 2010

Le Vert

After my “chalk it up to a learning experience” situation in Ulsan of reaching restaurants either closed for the day or closed permanently, I called ahead to the one burger house in Seoul that was recommended to me by multiple sources: Jacoby’s Burgers.  To my relief, someone answered the phone and told me they were open.  I knew I couldn’t get there that day so I asked if they were open the next day since a lot of places are closed on Mondays in Seoul.  “Of course!” was the reply. [click to continue…]

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Rancho Nicasio Restaurant & Bar – Nicasio, CA

by justin on August 30, 2010

A friend of mine recently made a comment on The Hamblogger Facebook page that I should try the burger at Rancho Nicasio in Western Marin County. He said that they have amazing food “cuz it’s a real ranch”. I have heard about Rancho Nicasio, but had never been. I was envisioning a working ranch with cowboys and cattle and a fire that people sit around eating BBQ and singing songs. Yeah, I thought, that does sound pretty good. I called up a fellow burger aficionado and we headed west to see what this ranch was all about.
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Roam Artisan Burgers – San Francisco, CA

by justin on August 27, 2010

I can’t tell you how many times I have failed at growing tomatoes. Usually they die a slow death or if I was lucky they would grow up to resemble Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree that produces one or two puny tomatoes. That was until this year – can you say prolific? The four plants have gone wild and are loaded down with fruit. Just yesterday I was pulling bright orange Sungolds off the vine and eating them like candy. It’s hard to beat the freshness and flavor of a hand picked veggie or piece of fruit. The same also applies to meat. Farm fresh grass-fed beef from a local ranch sure tastes better than ground beef that has been trucked all over the country. The owners of Roam Artisan Burgers understand the importance of using fresh local ingredients and have made it a top priority at their new burger venture – not only for their meat, but for just about everything they serve. [click to continue…]

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The Golden Eagles – Ulsan, South Korea

by Josh on August 26, 2010

The Golden Eagles

Ulsan, on the southeast coast of the peninsula, is South Korea’s seventh largest city.  Known for the world’s largest automobile factory, the world’s largest shipyard, and the world’s largest oil refinery, it is where I found myself working in August.  As much as I love Korean food, the need for a burger could not be suppressed. [click to continue…]

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Uncle Boy’s – San Francisco, CA

by justin on August 25, 2010

A few months ago, a friend of mine was telling me about a burger place that had recently opened up in his neighborhood called Uncle Boy’s. He had only been once and he had an ok experience, but it didn’t really knock his socks off. Since it was a new place, I figured that they were probably working out the kinks and going through the growing pains that most new eateries deal with. I added it to my mile long list of places to try and had sort of forgotten about it until one day I drove by it right about the time that my stomach starts begging to be fed. [click to continue…]

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BBQ Land – Santa Maria, CA

August 24, 2010

In 2005, I found myself living in Santa Maria along the Central Coast of California photographing the Michael Jackson molestation trial.  I had been living on the other end of the county in Santa Barbara covering the occasional pre-trial hearings but when things went into full swing I bit the bullet and moved to Santa [...]

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Show Dogs – San Francisco, CA

August 23, 2010

The corner of Market and Sixth Street in San Francisco is one of those places that most people try to avoid. Sixth Street, dubbed the “Wine Country” by many locals for its population of winos, dodgy people, and crack heads, is a frightening experience during the day – you can imagine how it is at [...]

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