Lawrence restaurant gets national attention
Local Burger and its owner, Hilary Brown, continue to garner national notice for the restaurant operation in downtown Lawrence.
Local Burger ranked No. 10 on Bon Appetit’s list of best eco-friendly restaurants, in the magazine’s Feb. 2 issue.
Outside magazine in December described Brown as a “chef with an environmental bent” in placing her at No. 48 on the magazine’s list of Big Ideas & Visionary Giants You Need to Know Now.
Local Burger also ranked among Gourmet magazine’s 100 Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants in America’ in October. The restaurant also showed up in a feature article in the September/October edition of Midwest Airlines’ in-flight magazine.
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