Before we get on to the business of the review, I should confess that I have never been able to get past a dozen or so screens of the video game “Food Fight.” I have never been able to chuck more than ...

At least for a while. For how long? Frankly, who knows. The social media note, posted last night, says simply: We have every intention of reopening sometime next year, when it makes more sense to do ...

Good news, Echo Park: the seven-year-old Button Mash is back starting tonight. The ever-popular arcade bar on Sunset has been in somewhat of a state of limbo for the past couple of years (as have many ...

After furloughing the majority of its 33 employees, Echo Park's Button Mash has teamed with video game collectible company iam8bit to raise funds by offering a range of memorabilia, cookbooks, ...

The pings, zips and buzzers of 1980s arcade games are filling the air at Button Mash once again, but now, so is the scent of adobada. Fans who’ve been holding onto their Button Mash tokens since 2020 ...

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There’s no shortage of restaurants in our fair city offering up great Vietnamese food and frosty pints of beer. Button Mash in Echo Park is upping the ante with an arcade of old school video games.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Celebrated Poltergeist chef Diego Argoti stands next to an arcade token machine in Button Mash in 2023. On Sept. 29, both ...

The state of Echo Park’s dining scene could be viewed as dispiriting. A few years ago, it seemed as if the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood would attract restaurants with ambition to match the newly ...

As a hybrid bar/restaurant/arcade, Echo Park’s Button Mash operates far more fluidly than it should. Spend a quarter or two on Street Fighter or NBA Jam while you wait for a table, sit down for dinner ...