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The Midnight Diners is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist Thien Pham. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene. This week, guest artist Briana Loewinsohn joined the burger party.
Lit up like a beacon on the corner of Telegraph and Woolsey in Berkeley, Smokehouse is a picture-postcard image of a classic American burger shack: the big, red, retro diner–style sign; the no-frills menu; the string lights twinkling over the cluster of picnic tables in back.
On a recent chilly Friday night, we could smell the smoke and the charred meat from all the way down the block. Jackpot…