All the Burgers Here Are Named for U.S. Presidents

            Happy Cashmere Season

Holidays: over. New year: happening. And since you’ve earned at least a week of deep winter hibernation,
here’s some quality cashmere and impossibly cozy French terry knitwear to snuggle up with at up to
35% off.

Thursday

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S BURGERS

            Burgers Named After Presidents. Dozens of Drafts. Happy New Year.

You in 2017: Lincoln Heights really needs a spot for beers and burgers.
You in 2018: Lincoln Heights now has this new spot called Lincoln Kitchen & Tap with a
penny-lined bar, daily-ground burgers named after U.S. presidents and nearly 40 drafts.
Whoever you’re talking to in 2018: Martin Van Buren burgers here we come.

Friday

HOME OF THE DAVE

            Hot Chicken Comes in From the Cold

Dave’s Hot Chicken was once content as a mere parking lot stand that you’d hit during late Thai Town nights.
Now, it’s occupying its own simple, graffiti-splashed brick-and-mortar, so you can come by and get that
fierce poultry anytime. Though somehow we still picture you buzzed.

Saturday

JAPAN’S LABYRINTH

            A New Japanese Night Out From Zuma

Japanese chain Zuma just opened Inko Nito in Downtown. It’s the kind of place you’ll go for robata, sake and
miso soup. And the kind of place that tells you what sake and miso are on a menu full of pictograms. In case
you’ve never eaten in LA before.

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

            A Little Something Different to Smoke

The scent experts at the Institute for Art & Olfaction offer a unique class this Saturday on creating
the perfect smoking blend. You’ll work with organic botanicals while learning history and folklore about
tobacco and smoking. Perfect, since weed is now legal and thus no longer fun.

Tuesday

THE NEAL WORLD

            We Aren't Responsible If Your Sides Split

Get this: Neal Brennan, the Emmy-nominated writing partner to Dave Chappelle, is playing a stand-up show
every Tuesday with a few of his friends. Fortunately, he’s choosing funny friends like David Allan Grier,
Ali Wong and Judd Apatow. Maybe you guys could become friends, even.

What Else Is New

NEW YEAR, SAME YOU

            Let's Break Some Resolutions, Shall We?

Here’s a handy list of
anti-resolutions, which includes a $25,000 taco and cheese-topped tea. Also, here’s
one writer’s take on the deceptively devastating Black Mirror dating app episode, and one
other writer’s rant against calling this bad weather a “bomb cyclone.” Very important stuff, all.

Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.