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We all secretly adulation iconic hot dog joint/tourist allurement Pink’s, which celebrates its 75th ceremony this year (HOT TIP: Go aback it’s aqueous to abstain a line!). But bags of added new spots are bustling up all over the city, with some mainstays accepting served up adorable sausages for years. Actuality are a few of our favorites (Note: We adulation sausages shops like Schriener's Fine Sausages, too, but we approved to accumulate it to sausage-centric restaurants):
["900"]WURSTKÜCHE
The mother of all hipster sausage joints and biergartens has to be Wurstküche, which opened in Downtown’s Arts District in 2008 and has been the “purveyor of alien broiled sausages” of best anytime since. Good ol’ ancient brats are alone six bucks, while those alien links—buffalo, duck, rattlesnake and crocodile all accomplish appearances on the menu—run for eight. A huge alternative of German beers and patio basement up their bold significantly. They’ve broadcast into a Venice area as well, so you don’t accept to drive beyond the burghal to get your fix, wherever you may be.
Tip: Plenty of vegan choices are available, admitting they’re adapted on the aforementioned grills as meat sausages.
Wurstküche is amid at 800 E 3rd St. in Downtown Los Angeles, (213) 687-4444, or 625 Lincoln Blvd. in Venice, (213) 687-4444
BERLIN CURRYWURST
If exotic’s not your cup o’ tea, Berlin Currywurst’s selections are added typical, yet not beneath delicious. Pork, veal, beef, craven or tofu accomplish up the links, while customization options accommodate a bifold allocation (moving the amount from $5.89 to $8.89), calefaction akin (1 to 4), additive (fruity, chipotle, jambalaya, garlic or ginger-orange) and topping (minced onions or sauerkraut). The Silverlake area has alfresco basement on its Sunset/Hyperion corner, while the Hollywood area has a aback patio biergarten with succulents and a blaze pit.Berlin Currywurst is amid at 3827 W Sunset Blvd. in Silver Lake, (323) 663-1989, or 1620 N Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood, (323) 467-7593
LINK N HOPS
Not an ill-begotten Nu Metal bandage from the ’90s, but a new sausage atom in Atwater Village that opened in 2012. It may be accused of bent on Wurstküche’s sausage-and-beer bandwagon, but you can’t altercate with the goods: aperitive knachwurst and andouille, avoid and agrarian animal for adventuresome eaters, and a vegan alternative that trumps the competition. A late-night blessed hour (from 10 to midnight) includes ample chips for $3, $5 brats and $4 brews.
["439"]Links N Hops is amid at 3111 N Glendale Blvd., Ste. C, in Atwater Village, (323) 426-9049
WIRTSHAUS
Wirtshaus is new, opened in 2011, but not too newfangled—this is a absolute German restaurant, run by absolute Germans, and the card appropriately skews against acceptable German wurst (you can still get vegetarian sausage, though). Expect a new-meets-old feel, with beautiful board tables (and one ping-pong table you can eat at!) as able-bodied as the casual alive accordion player, about Oktoberfest.
Wirsthaus is amid at 345 N La Brea Ave. in Fairfax, (323) 931-9291
SEOUL SAUSAGE CO.
Much as Kogi put the Korean taco on the map, the Kim brothers (Yong and Ted) and chef acquaintance Chris Oh accept put Korean flavors into the admired sausage, demography it about the country in a aliment barter and acceptable Aliment Network’s The Abundant Aliment Barter Race forth the way. So what does their aliment absolutely entail? The simple card includes seven-dollar kalbi sausages topped with kimchi appetite and garlic-jalapeno aioli, as able-bodied as ambrosial pork sausages with angel banknote slaw—and rice balls, Korean absurd craven and galbi poutine, for the non-sausage inclined.
Seoul Sausage Co. is amid at 11313 Mississippi Ave. in Sawtelle, (310) 477-7739
EARLEZ GRILLE
["670"]Earlez has been about for 20 years or so, starting as one of L.A.’s abounding admired hot dog carts, but it afresh has acquired into article more: a hot dog atom that gives according comedy to its vegan cousin, the veggie dog, with vegetarians all over the cit burghal singing the praises of this Leimert Park joint. As one audacious clairvoyant acicular out, the Leimert Park area has been bankrupt to accomplish way for the Crenshaw Line, but the restaurant will reopen adjacent this year at 3864 Crenshaw Blvd.
Earlez Grille will be amid at 3864 Crenshaw Blvd. in Leimert Park
DOG HAUS
With a account of dogs and sausages aggressive by pop culture—from the Scott Bailoi dog to the Das Brat—Dog Haus is a lot of fun. Dog Haus has added to it than aloof sausages—there’s a abundant beer selection, tater tots and $1 sliders at blessed hour, which appear on a Hawaiian roll.
Dog Haus is amid at 93 E Green St. in Pasadena, (626) 683-0808, or 410 E Capital St. in Alhambra, (626) 282-4287
RED LION TAVERN
Red Lion is accepted for actuality a abundant bar and German restaurant, calmly amid beyond the artery from Cha Cha Lounge, but it’s home to appetizing brats and bockwurst. Their best accepted plate, the sausage platter, is like one of those dishes you hover about at a affair until it mysteriously disappears— bratwurst, knackwurst and smoked bockwurst cut up into baby pieces with toothpicks, served with pickles, peppers and mustard.
Red Lion is amid at 2366 Glendale Blvd. in Silverlake, (323) 662-5337
["600"]BLUDSO’S BBQ
Bludso’s is a abundant abode to get all kinds of barbecue, like brisket and ribs, but their craven sausage and hot links are altogether ambrosial and delicious. It was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, so you apperceive it’s legit. They’ve opened a atom on La Brea now that serves alcohol, but if you appetite the original, arch to Compton. However, the La Brea one is addicted of baking accomplished hogs for football games, so it's your alarm really.
Bludso’s BBQ is amid at 609 N La Brea Ave. in Fairfax, (323) 931-2583, or 811 S Long Beach Blvd. in Compton, (310) 637-1342
EIGHTH STREET SOONDAE
For the best soondae you’ve anytime had (that’s claret sausage, not ice cream), arch to Koreatown’s Eighth Artery Soondae. Claret sausages are the capital draw here, which ability complete gross to the uninitiated—intestines blimp with bottle noodles, barley and pork blood—but already you try it the soft, compact soondae, you’ll balloon your reservations. If you’re not that adventurous, there’s additionally pig’s ear, alarmist and anxiety to cloy the weak-bellied.
Eighth Artery Soondae is amid at 2703 W 8th St. in Koreatown, (213) 487-0038
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