Rita’s Deluxe
Fast food restaurant · Downtown Los Angeles ·
Diner burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches, milkshakes, cheese curds
Diner burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches, milkshakes, cheese curds
"Offering a $125 pick-up or delivery package that includes six burgers, four large beef tallow fries, two buffalo chicken sandwiches, and four sodas — positioned as an easy crowd-pleasing game-day option." - Rebecca Roland
"When Rita’s Deluxe reopens tomorrow on 7th Street in Downtown, I found it will feature a monthly special: chef Luke Reyes’s version of a Chicago hot dog with a Vienna all-beef hot dog, sport peppers, relish, tomato, celery salt, and tomato in a poppy seed bun for $9; the restaurant had been temporarily closed for weeks due to a permitting issue that has since been resolved." - Matthew Kang
"After a mandatory health department closure due to a permit complication, I learned that Rita’s Deluxe, described as a tiny but mighty diner from chef Luke Reyes in Downtown Los Angeles, is reopening April 3 and will offer burgers, fried cheese curds, fried chicken sandwiches, and shakes." - Matthew Kang
"Following Moonlark Dinette and Denae’s, Rita’s Deluxe proves Downtown is in a retro diner phase. This small counter spot in the former Petit Peso space serves old-school American classics with little sprinkles of flare, like crinkle fries cooked in beef tallow, milkshakes topped with crumbled potato chips, and single, double, or triple patty burgers." - Sylvio Martins
"Rita's is just a burger counter the way that Game of Thrones is just a soap opera. In roughly 400 square feet, this retro DTLA luncheonette combines everything you’d want in an old-school diner (leather stools, checkered floors) with new-school touches. The food is a love letter to '50s-era fast food, and somehow, even more memorable than the space. Expect crinkle-cut fries, beer-battered cheese curds, milkshakes in paper cups, and grass-fed patties on seeded buns. The buttermilk fried chicken sandwich and roast beef special are hits, but we’ll be back for Rita’s “deluxe” burger. Seared but not smashed, it tastes like an Animal-style double-double got jacked doing Crossfit and added on bacon and chopped cherry peppers. If you regularly lunch around downtown, bee-line here to try it." - Brant Cox, Sylvio Martins, Nikko Duren
