Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: January 8

Wagyu burger at Chubby Curry in Beverly Hills

The server kept recommending the burger at Beverly Hills’s new Chubby Curry, a restaurant that might fit better in the SGV or Koreatown than the tony 90210 zip code. While the curry and katsu are all fantastic, chefs Liga Sigal and Shin Thompson’s version of a hefty pub-style burger hits it out of the ballpark. Sporting fatty but sturdy ground wagyu beef, the thick patty is seared to a near char but remains juicy inside (Sigal says that Chubby Curry will often take extra A5 wagyu from Niku X in Downtown to serve here in Beverly Hills). The ample caramelized onion and curry-inflected aioli add the flavors of Japanese curry but in a fresh vessel. It’s easily one of the best new burgers of the year.