Laurent Quenioux Burgers at Vertical, Lobster Rolls at The Spare Room, More!

PASADENA— Chef Laurent Quenioux is all over the place lately. In addition to this, he's also starting a weekly Thursday burger night at Vertical Wine Bistro with a separate menu dedicated to burgers. Rolls out this Thursday. [EaterWire]

HOLLYWOOD— Tomorrow night The Spare Room inside the Roosevelt Hotel finally kicks off food service. To start, the vintage gaming parlor is offering $5 mini lobster rolls, $3 beers, $7 Nantucket Sound cocktails (chamomile and lemon balm-infused gin, vermouth, cantaloupe juice), and half off bowling from 6-9PM, Wednesdays only. [EaterWire]

DOWNTOWN— Chichen Itza restaurant is holding a habanero chile eating contest and a corn tortilla (stuffed with black bean paste topped with roasted turkey and pickled red onion) eating contest. The chile sauce contest starts at 2PM, followed by the tortilla contest at 3PM, both on June 19 inside Mercado La Paloma downtown. Winners receive $50 gift certificates to the restaurant. [EaterWire]

SANTA MONICA— On Father's Day The Misfit offers dads any of the restaurant's 16 beers for just 10 cents. And, he can order as many as he would like at this price, no restrictions. [EaterWire]