In-N-Out Burger

Westchester, near LAX, Los Angeles · Burgers · $

In-N-Out has run the same short menu since Harry and Esther Snyder opened the first stand in Baldwin Park in 1948, and the not-so-secret extras, animal style, protein style, the 4x4, are ordered by name rather than printed anywhere. This branch on Sepulveda sits at the end of an LAX runway with a grass strip beside the lot where people park to watch widebodies pass a few hundred feet over the sign. Angelenos treat it as a plane-spotting spot as much as a burger stop, which is why the queue outlasts the dinner rush by hours.