Go On Location: Famous Film & TV Restaurants in L.A.
One of L.A.’s oldest operating eateries, the
Pacific Dining Car
was founded in 1921 by Fred and Grace Cook. Inspired by a restaurant
they’d visited in New York, the couple created a replica train dining
car to house their small steakhouse, which moved to its current location
at 6th and Witmer in 1923. Though Fred and Grace have since passed
away, the restaurant is still owned and operated by their family to this
day. Open 24 hours a day, the Pacific Dining Car was an early favorite
of the Hollywood set, with Mae West, Louella Parsons and Mickey Cohen
counted as regulars. In more recent years, Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp and
novelist James Ellroy have been known to drop in.
The richly-colored interior has been immortalized numerous times on screen, most famously in the 2001 crime drama,
"Training Day."
In the restaurant’s Pacific Northwest Room, Denzel Washington meets
with the Three Wise Men and recommends the Baseball Steak. In the 1974
noir classic "Chinatown," the exterior briefly masks as the Pig ‘n
Whistle in a series of photographs that J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson)
looks through. The steakhouse also popped up in 2008’s "Street Kings"
and 2011’s "Rampart."
Complete list (DiscoverLosAngeles.com)
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