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Lucky Boy In Pasadena Reopens After Kitchen Fire
The exterior of Lucky Boy in Pasadena, on Friday, January 25, 2019. (Elina Shatkin/LAist)
At 5:30 a.m. this morning, the Lucky Boy on Arroyo in Pasadena reopened after being closed for two weeks due to a kitchen fire.
Southern California is peppered with tons of these casual burger-and-burrito joints but Lucky Boy is special.
It makes breakfast burritos that are almost as big as your head.
It has been around for 50-something years.
Its cooks will make you an order of onion rings or zucchini fries at 7 a.m., if that's your pleasure.
The famous breakfast burrito, onion rings and zucchini fries at Lucky Boy in Pasadena, on Friday, January 25, 2019. (Elina Shatkin/LAist)
Lucky Boy has another Pasadena location, on Walnut St., but (full disclosure) that one is not a mere three blocks from LAist/KPCC headquarters.
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Jose, of the A.M. kitchen crew, says the fire might have been a malfunction of the electrical system and/or too much grease in the fryer. Whatever it was, Lucky Boy has rebounded and the breakfast burritos are as meaty and massive as ever.
The morning kitchen crew at Lucky Boy in Pasadena, on Friday, January 25, 2019. The restaurant reopened after a kitchen fire shut it down for two weeks. (Elina Shatkin/LAist)
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