Is Cassell's Hamburgers Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10, Episode 7

Cassell's Hamburgers appeared in the episode "Key Ingredient," which featured the restaurant's hamburgers, made with beef ground fresh in house. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-11), Cassell's Hamburgers first opened in 1948 and its main location sits inside the Hotel Normandie on 6th Street in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. A 2026-09-08 check of the restaurant's own website, cassellshamburgers.com, found the Koreatown location still listed at that Hotel Normandie address with posted hours of Sunday through Thursday 9am to 9pm and Friday and Saturday 9am to 10pm, along with working online-ordering links through Toast and order.online for both the Koreatown and a second Chinatown location. Cassell's Hamburgers now grinds Aspen Ridge beef daily and still uses the original 1948 crossfire broiler, according to the restaurant's own website.

Food Paradise, Season 12, Episode 4

On the episode "Blue Plate Special," Cassell's Hamburgers was featured for its classic Los Angeles hamburgers, ground and formed in house. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-11), Cassell's Hamburgers first opened in 1948 and its main location sits inside the Hotel Normandie on 6th Street in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to the restaurant's own website, checked 2026-09-09, its history page traces the business's founding to 1948, when Al Cassell opened Cassell's Hamburgers, and the site listed current hours including Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a Friday-Saturday happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m., plus online ordering for its Koreatown and Chinatown locations.