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, ...

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 ...

Tijuana-style taco operation Tacos 1986 just opened its sixth location — this time within Echo Park bar-arcade Button Mash, beginning a new chapter for both businesses. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles ...

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 ...

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.

For most of his young adult life, Diego Argoti has felt like fighting. The long-haired, occasionally profane LA cook found ways to build often imagined (or at least one-sided) personal slights and ...

The chef behind L.A.’s wild, irreverent, lines-around-the-block pasta pop-up Estrano Things is opening a new restaurant inside the beloved Echo Park arcade and bar Button Mash. Diego Argoti ran a ...

At the end of this month Button Mash owners Jordan Weiss and Gabriel Fowlkes will permanently unplug the blipping, blinging video game terminals in Echo Park’s bar and arcade. Along with Button Mash's ...

Button Mash, an arcade and bar located in Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood, has teamed up with video game collectibles company iam8bit to help raise funds to keep the restaurant alive during the ...