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Time didn't just stop at this 1950s Burbank steakhouse; it died from all the cheesy bread. This is thick-cut stuff, laced with funky garlic and welded together with cheese. From your sunken position inside a slick red vinyl booth, it can be hard to see over the piles and piles of cheesy bread to the grilled steaks and fatty cuts of prime rib that have kept The SmokeHouse in business for more than 60 years. But they're there – along with simple potatoes, dry martinis and layers upon layers of Hollywood stories about the old studio days.
"Go to these places now. Don't wait. This may be your last chance to immerse yourself in a vanishing world." So says Peter Moruzzi, author of the just-published book Classic Dining: Discovering Americ... More »
"Do many people order the Escargots de Casa?" I wonder as I peruse the all-American classic menu at the Smoke House in Burbank. Probably not. The three regulars in the booth next to me have just requested the famous cheese-laden garlic bread and... More »
The welcoming caress of the round red leather booths, martinis so potent they come with sidecars, a menu that seems largely unchanged since 1946 -- there's very little that's modern about Burbank's Smoke House. Thankfully, that includes the cheese bread. The bright orange hue makes it look like it's been coated with radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, but the intense flavor is all salt, garlic and cheese powder. Is there an entire stick of butter in each half-loaf? It certainly seems... More »
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