answer:My personal favorite is Irv's burgers -- a little shack on Santa Monica just west of La Cienega. (www.irvsburgers.com). It's run by this great Korean family that learns your name if you go there, and gives you little personalized plates with a handwritten "just for you" next to a little drawing of what you're wearing. The burgers are very tasty, and quite cheap. Father's Office is supposed to be the very best (though it's a madhouse there), and the Apple Pan is supposed to be very good as well, but I haven't had a chance to go to either of those places.