Desk at Third & Fairfax is a weekly eating column in 2023 the place Meals and Drink editor Patricia Kelly Yeo will eat her method by the Unique Farmers Market. Every column will drop on Thursday for a week-by-week recap of her journey by the traditional L.A. vacationer attraction. Final week, Kelly visited Phil’s Deli.
Arriving on the Farmers Market on a late Wednesday morning, I’m able to tuck into breakfast from Thicc Burger (est. 2023), which the Los Angeles Instances not too long ago named certainly one of its favourite burgers in L.A. Now, whereas I used to be impressed with the 2 burgers I attempted a number of weeks in the past, I didn’t suppose Thicc Burger was an apparent shoo-in for Time Out’s finest burger information, given the formidable variety of rivals throughout city. What did pique my curiosity, nonetheless, was the morning-only menu, which consists of a breakfast sammie ($12), an English muffin-based riff on a McGriddle ($12), “scorching” avocado toast ($12) and a breakfast burrito ($13). The day I arrive, they’re out of the Thicc Griddle and the avocado toast, so I order the breakfast sammie with bacon and the breakfast burrito with sausage.
As an indication close to the register says, all meals is made to order, so I’m already anticipating a brief wait as I place my order. Ultimately, it takes about 10 minutes or so for my order, although I’m the primary buyer of the day so I can’t say this may be your expertise later within the morning. The very first thing I discover concerning the sausage breakfast burrito is its measurement: It’s on the smaller aspect, although the density and taste of burrito fillings makes up for its lack of girth. (To be truthful, I’m not precisely a breakfast burrito professional, nor do I’ve plans on changing into one.) The bacon breakfast sammie, oddly sufficient, options tomato and lettuce on what appears like golden-fried sliced bread.
After bites of each, it’s clear to me that the burrito is superior to the sammie. Filled with crumbled sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns and cheese, every burrito chunk is heat and satisfying. I can’t fairly discern the presence of the salsa molcajete, although I believe it’s in there someplace. The sammie, then again, tastes barely watery as a result of greens. There’s no plush burger bun to counteract this, and the general impact is disappointing. The bacon is properly chewy, which I usually want when consuming bacon alone, however the finish end result when consuming sandwiches is you could oftentimes by chance pull a complete slice out of the sandwich, leaving you with much less bacon for the remainder of your meal. I’m not a lot of a breakfast particular person, however I ended up ending half of the breakfast burrito proper on the spot earlier than wrapping up the remainder for lunch at residence.
Meals from Desk at Third & Fairfax fall into three classes: Skip It, Price Attempting and Should Have.
Vendor: Thicc Burger
Order: Sausage breakfast burrito and bacon breakfast sammie
Verdict: Price Attempting—no less than the burrito is, however I’d skip the sammie.
