BurgerWire: D-Town Burger Bar and Rowdy Red Coming to Downtown, More Burger News

1) Downtown: Burgers by the boat load are coming to downtown. The D-Town Burger Bar is coming to the Hayward Hotel on 6th and Spring, and Rowdy Red, a burger and wine bar owned by the people behind Sixth Street Bar and Grill, will open at City National Plaza by the end of this year. [Angelenic

2) Pasadena: Last week it was the Apple Pan, this week A Hamburger Today visits Pie n' Burger to find?"there is something more universal about Pie 'N Burger, whose sandwich is constructed in a manner that is replicated tens of thousands of times across the Southern California landscape. The burger is, after all, essentially what you will get at In-N-Out burger and at countless other spots. But to me, Pie 'N Burger is the most exulted example of the breed." [AHT; photo credit]

3) West LA: ESPN's Todd Blackledge intends on highlighting a local restaurant before primetime college games every week, and since UCLA played Tennesee at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena yesterday, he went to?the Apple Pan? [AHT]

4) Fatburger was named Best Burger From a Restaurant at the National Hamburger Festival in?wait for it?Akron, OH. The competition was mostly from local Ohio chains, with the exception of Big Boy, White Castle and Chik-fil-A, which isn't a burger at all. [Marketwatch]