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.

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 ...

Celebrated Poltergeist chef Diego Argoti stands next to an arcade token machine in Button Mash in 2023. On Sept. 29, both Poltergeist and its host space, long-running Echo Park arcade bar Button Mash, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...