Cuisine
Best Burgers in Los Angeles
Burgers spots pulled from our Los Angeles guides — picked by taste, price, and vibe rather than crowd averages. Here's who each one is for.
In-N-Out (Westwood)
$Burgers · Westwood / Sawtelle
The Westwood In-N-Out is a UCLA staple for a reason: a Double-Double animal style, fries, and a shake for under ten dollars, open late, never a letdown. Learn the not-so-secret menu (animal style, protein style) and it becomes the dependable cheap answer for a late lunch, post-library dinner, or end-of-night burger run.
Original Tommy's
$Burgers / Chili · Koreatown / Westwood / DTLA
The original Tommy's near Rampart has been slinging chili-soaked burgers 24 hours a day since 1946. It's not refined — it's a paper-wrapped chili cheeseburger eaten standing up at 2am — but it's a genuine LA late-night rite of passage, roughly between the two campuses and open whenever you need it. Bring napkins. Many of them.
In-N-Out (Westwood)
$Burgers · Koreatown / Westwood / DTLA
The Westwood In-N-Out is the UCLA late-night default: a Double-Double animal style, fries, and a shake for under ten dollars, open until 1–1:30am. Learn the not-so-secret menu and it becomes the dependable end-of-night burger run for half of campus. Consistent, cheap, and close.