{"id":23,"date":"2013-07-28T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/28\/2013-6-13-malibu-california-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:22:54","slug":"2013-6-13-malibu-california-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Malibu California Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE &#8211; CLOSED as of Summer 2014]<\/p>\n<p>Train stations are great for catching trains. Not so great for restaurant choices. Or at least, so I thought. Yet hiding in plain sight in the Yoyogiuehara Station is Malibu California Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Malibu-California-1.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides a generally pleasant design and a Budweiser neon sign, there&#8217;s nothing to distinguish the restaurant from a slew of other pedestrian choices filling up Tokyo&#8217;s train stations. As for the Malibu moniker, I can&#8217;t say it reminds me of anything I&#8217;ve seen in Malibu. None of the young employees seem like trust fund stoners, none of the customers were wearing beach attire, and the prices didn&#8217;t seem strangely inflated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Malibu-California-2.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paired with unnecessary bottles of ketchup and mustard and a somewhat necessary roll of paper towels, the pretty yet non-dill pickles were lowering my expectations. Yet the burger itself was a different story. Juicy and tender, this was a burger I could eat every day. Simple flavor and great texture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Malibu-California-3.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A rather forgettable restaurant serving a quite memorable burger. I wish the inside were a little more comfy (and better air conditioned on the day I went), but I also wish that Gladstone&#8217;s served better food. We can&#8217;t have everything we want.<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 6\/10, Burger 7.5\/10, Fries N\/A<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE &#8211; CLOSED as of Summer 2014] Train stations are great for catching trains. Not so great for restaurant choices. Or at least, so I thought. Yet hiding in plain sight in the Yoyogiuehara Station is Malibu California Kitchen. Besides a generally pleasant design and a Budweiser neon sign, there&#8217;s nothing to distinguish the restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5,4,10],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yoyogiuehara","tag-burger","tag-tokyo","tag-yoyogiuehara"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}