Last Tuesday I took a visit to the APPLE PAN in West Los Angeles. Just Google map it for directions. My rating:
A-
Awesome place to visit, but my only negative is that there is no place for large groups (or even groups of 4) to sit together.
Established in 1947,
nothing much has changed since then. Several of the employees there have been there for years and decades. It's still family owned by the granddaughter of the original owner; yet unlike In-n-Out which has expanded into over two hundred stores, there is only one Apple Pan.
Their famous burger is the Hickory burger. It's topped with a special Hickory sauce, fresh lettuce (they only use the inside, crispy part of the lettuce head), two pickles, and mayo (sorry, no tomatoes folks). Of course it's wrapped in the famous wax paper. Fries are extra but they give it to you by the butt-load! Also if your order a drink, it will come in a cone-shaped paper cup placed inside a metal tin. Yum-yum.
Of course they have their famous pies to try out. For $5.50 a slice, a huge slice, it's sure worth the money.
The other burger they got was the Steakburger, but I didn't try it. It looks just as good but it has a different sauce. "Quality Forever" is their motto and they sure live up to it. Fresh, never frozen patties, and everything is made till you order it.
This place is definitely a nostalgic place to visit. They even had old cash registers! We had to get it go, but everyone in my party agreed that this certainly is a place to visit again sometime in the future. Just don't go during rush hour, folks!
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"...and everything is made till you order it." That doesn't sound fresh? But I know what you mean. :p
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great restaurant. I don't really understand the whole cone-shaped paper cup thing. Why do that?
Grammar is not a highlight in this blog, although it did look like they had everything prepared. If you didn't want any substitutions, then it was basically already done, but if you wanted something extra, then it would take a little bit longer.
ReplyDeleteThe cone shaped cup is just the old-fashioned way of serving drinks. They don't have a soda fountain like most fast-food joints. Instead, they just pour the soda from the can into the paper cone cups. I'm not sure exactly why it's cone shaped except for the fact that it fits within the metallic holders.