Our great city of Los Angeles makes it impossible to get jaded over eating out.
The second you begin entertaining heretical thoughts that maybe you’ve heard enough about Smash burgers or start smacking your head against the wall with the mention of one more birria business, out comes something like this.
An acclaimed smash burger from an Irish-American, East Coast émigré, topped with devotedly genuine birria crafted by a chef from Mexico City, using whole lamb smoked vertically on the spot by an Argentine asado expert, in the backyard of a Michelin-recognized Mid-City taqueria.
All of which to say is… damn, L.A.
The mammoth thrill, known to mortals as the “BEEria Burger,” will be offered this Friday afternoon at Bee Taquería. It is a culinary collaboration between Alex Carrasco’s Michelin Bib-awarded taquería and Proudly Serving, home of the stand-out smash burger of Matthew McIvor, a Jersey-raised, South Bay-allegiant hustler who gladly ditched the world of public relations during the pandemic to create his lauded Redondo Beach burger business. This is the second documented amalgamation of birria and a burger in L.A. And one more reason why it is the best city in the world. Word on the street is that the Metztli pop-up has also done a birria burger.