• in & out burger (cheap, reliable, healthy)
• corner bistro (west village, cheap beers too, served on a paper plate, doesnt get any better)
• tommy's (la's finest late nite shit!)
• astro burger (off melrose, solid diner burgers, onion rings etc)
• ikeda's burgers (in auburn, perfect pit stop after boarding)
• fuddruckers (yeah, 1/2lb'er and all the condiments you could want)
• fatburger (fucking ice cube eats there at 2am)
• red robin (the peppercorn burger and bottomless fries)
• that place cliff huxtable took rudy and her friends to for gourmet burgers in that episode of cosby show

any other spots in the south bay? holler at me.