Kirk J.
Yelp
DTLA at night, especially around the business area, is kind of a food desert. You can walk down to Little Tokyo or the Grand Central Market area, but that's a bit of a hike. Broadly speaking, food in this area caters towards people who work in DTLA - aka young urban professionals who think burgers should be $20 and fit in your palm. Luckily, the burgers here are both under $20 and significantly larger than my palm!
D-Town Burger Bar is a pretty simple, sorta fast-food place. You order at the counter, they serve traditional fast food. Burgers, fries, shakes, the like.
There are multiple reasons I have gone to this place so often. First, the burgers are decent. Greasy but not too greasy. You can order them with whatever you want in them. I tried the Corona Burger (lol) and it was pretty decent, though it was packed with every imaginable burger ingredient imaginable (and I don't love my burgers with avocado and what not). I actually think their normal double burger combo is the best thing on the menu.
They grill the burgers and sandwiches right in front of you, and that means that the food is hot and fresh once it gets to you. Some people get this to-go, but I strongly recommend eating in because that's how you get the warmest and freshest foodge.
Fries in particular are some of my favorite fries out there. They come out piping hot, covered in nice cajun dry rub, and just overall the perfect size to enjoy both the warm gooey potato inside and the crispy, fresh out of the fryer skin. I think the fries are really what kept on making me come back.
Another plus - they're also open really late! Very convenient! A lot of times, they'll be the only real sit-down food option open at say, 2 AM on a Saturday. And despite having no competition, they're still pretty good! Prices aren't turbo-cheap, but they're pretty good by DTLA standards.
Anyways, if you're in this part of downtown (dunno, stuck there for work or something once COVID ends and the laptop class heads back to their cubicles), or if you're stupidly drunk there at like 1 AM in the morning, either way, can't go wrong with getting a burger here!