Regular Burgers Will Always Be Better Than Trendy Burgers

7 Reasons Diner Burgers Are Better Than Fancy Burgers

The diner burger is the best value in food 

• For very few dollars, you’re guaranteed both a satisfying meal and the opportunity to eat THE GREAT UNIFYING FORCE THAT HOLDS AMERICA TOGETHER. The diner burger is a beautiful constant no matter whether your state is red, blue, purple or goldenrod. The same thin, grilled patties are served by heartland grandmothers and immigrants from Greece and Ukraine. It’s enjoyed by stockbrokers, ER nurses, people who sell grain silos, and that disheveled, neurotic guy over there working on a screenplay about a stockbroker who marries an ER nurse whose dad sells grain silos and does not approve of slick, big-city stockbrokers. If that terrible concept sells, 20 years from now that screenwriter will still be talking about how much he misses the days when he subsisted on diner burgers.

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I Would Eat Here

Inside America’s Most Expensive Sushi Restaurant Where Meals Start at $450

For those who love sushi and also for whom money is no object, Masa is a restaurant to experience at least once.

Masa is a sushi and Japanese food restaurant located in Manhattan and is the most expensive restaurant in New York City and the most expensive sushi restaurant in the United States.

Masa is omakase-only (chef’s choice) and has no menu. An omakase dinner for one costs $450, not including tax, tips or drinks. Kobe beef costs an additional $150.

The chef behind Masa is Masayoshi Takayama, who opened the restaurant in 2004.

Masa is only one of four New York restaurants with three Michelin stars and the first Japanese restaurant in the country to have received as many.

The restaurant’s fish is imported fresh from Japan and is rarely ever frozen. “Just, the thing is my ingredients. I don’t think they have equals.” Takayama told Eater.

The restaurant is minimally and elegantly designed, with a $60,000 hinoki wood sushi counter that is sanded daily to ensure smoothness.

The restaurant’s food isn’t the only thing that’s expensive. Reservations must be made with a credit card, and cancellations — even for one person in a party of diners — not made within 48 hours of the reservation time will mean a $200-per-person fee.

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I Still Find This Hard To Believe After All These Years

Subaru Is Still Tromping All Other Manufacturers In Rates Of U.S. Car Sales

The September Bloomberg reports show that Subaru is still putting the U.S. sales pace of every other manufacturer to shame, and the company has been for quite awhile now — years, actually.

Subaru sales saw a 28-percent increase from last September, with Americans buying a record 53,070 cars from the Japanese company. The U.S. numbers are a fraction of more established companies like Toyota and Honda, which saw 162,595 and 119,046 vehicles sold in that same month, respectively.

But where Subaru stands out is in its rate of sales, which Bloomberg attributes to its SUV-oriented vehicle lineup (which U.S. drivers have a real liking for), the small company’s push from the northeast and northwest into the southern regions of the U.S. and its overall company approach:

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Racing, Illustrated

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This Game Changing Sedan Is Aging Very Well

Toyota updates JDM Crown sedan to celebrate 60th birthday

While Toyota may be well represented in the sedan market here in America by the likes of the Camry and Avalon, back home in Japan it's all about the Crown. First introduced way back in 1955, Toyota's flagship domestic model celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion and prepare it for its seventh decade of production, the Japanese automaker has treated the Crown to a mid-cycle update.

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A Pitfall About Being Irreplaceable

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