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Although I've never attended a Fellowship of the Bun meeting, I have been keeping close tabs on the group and would like to share my experience of an absolutely fantastic burger I found in Los Angeles.
The name of the restaurant is Umami and, although I believe the original is somewhere on La Brea, I dined at the newer location on Hollywood Blvd. in the southeast part of Los Feliz (near Silverlake).
Hands down, this is perhaps one of the most delectable burgers I have ever tasted. Starting with the bun, the bread is lightly toasted and has just the right amount of "fluff" to it. Best I can guess, it is a semi-sweet type of bread and maintains its consistency throughout the entire meal.
All burgers in the restaurant are prepared medium-rare and, in light of this, I can only assume part of their perfect taste is an extremely high grade of beef. The burger is incredibly juicy but somehow not at all greasy. It is topped with cheese, sun-dried tomato, caramelized onions and a light homemade sauce.
From start to finish, this burger is perfect. Although side items are sold a la carte, the sweet potato fries only add to this all-around perfect meal. They are lightly salted and, from what I can tell, also have a hint of brown sugar and/or cinnamon added.
I'm not a huge fan of the restaurant itself. It has a very LA-ish vibe, and by that it is trendy, overly pretentious and a bit pricey. But if you can set that aside, the burger will not disappoint.
Expect to pay about $16.00 - $18.00 for the burger, fries, drink, tax and tip.
I've been working on a small project out here in Los Angeles called Johnny Taco with a friend of mine, Manny Ruiz. Basically it's a mobile restaurant idea that only sells breakfast tacos since the breakfast taco is evidently not sold in Los Angeles. If you're from Los Angeles and you say to yourself, "isn't that the same as a breakfast burrito", it's not.
Anyway there is a guy by the name of Jamie Oliff who painted all of the artwork at the Dresden and I asked him if he would do the artwork for us. The idea was to have a caricature of Johnny from the Dresden holding a taco. I like where he's going with this.
As a side note, I added in all of the restaurant-esque stuff.
Since Liz works late at the Dresden sometimes, I thought I would make us a delicious cherry pie using the recipe that my friends, Grant and Ashley Fisher, taught me. And since the house was empty and I didn't have much else to do, I thought it would be especially fun to make a "how-to" video for the internet as well.
I started working on a video just for fun in the middle of this trip, but since everyone started getting into it so much, I went ahead and finished it out.
Sometimes it gets a little boring on the road. On our way from Texas to Los Angeles, Liz and I stopped for dinner at the IHOP in Ft. Stockton. It's generally the last place I'd want to stop, but since it's really the ONLY place there (at least during certain hours), it was kind of necessary.
Anyway, for some reason we made a stop action from the table. We stayed in Las Cruces for the night and rather than sleep, I decided to put this little ditty together. I always love it when the title sequence and credits are twice as long as the video itself.
Part of my process and desire for digitizing everything in my life is so that I can finally part with it all without actually losing the memories of what the content contained. I came across this old and very worn-out book that I had used in 4th grade to make a flipbook out of.
A flipbook, for those who don't understand the term, is just when you take a book of pretty much any variety and create an animation across the pages. Hence when you flip the book, the pictures are animated.
Anyway, this was a short flipbook that I had come across. I scanned each of the pages, threw it into Adobe Premiere, and set it to music.
