Yet more burger kings

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor

Aug. 6, 2008 3 PM PT

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The burgers -- they just don’t stop. The new Bon Appetit blog BA Foodist ponders the continuing burgeoning of burgers from high-end chefs. (Even Michelin three-star chefs in Paris have caught on to the burger, according to the New York Times.)

Foodist lists the celebrity chef-driven burger spots around the country, including Laurent Tourondel’s new BLT Burger in Las Vegas, Thomas Keller’s planned Burgers and Half-Bottles in Yountville, Calif., and Daniel Boulud’s coming burger bar on Bowery in New York. I think Govind Armstrong’s newly opened 8 oz. in Hollywood is missing from the list.

As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Marcus Samuelsson’s Marc Burger opened in Chicago last week and another is expected for Costa Mesa, at the South Coast Plaza Macy’s -- the perfect storm of celebrity chef meets burger meets mall.

-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.