Nickel Diner
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| Restaurant information | |
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| Established | 2008 |
| City | Los Angeles |
| State | California |
| Website | www |
Nickel Diner is a Los Angeles, California, restaurant known for its versions of diner food including dishes a maple-glaze bacon doughnut, baked eggs, steak sandwich, and catfish.
Fixtures and fittings
[edit]The window is decorated with mannequin heads including a Marie Antoinette and TV chef Guy Fieri, who visited the restaurant in 2009 to film part of an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Some of the light fixtures are floor lamps glued upside down to the ceiling. The restaurant occupies the site of a long-forgotten diner, hand-painted wall menus with prices last current in the late 1940s.
Critical praise
[edit]LA Weekly has described Nickel Diner as "an unlikely success", stepping from "what used to be considered the most notorious intersection in town".[1]
The Los Angeles Times guide refers to the restaurant as a "trendy new diner" that is "located on a historic stretch of Main Street between Fifth and Sixth streets." and claim that "Inside you're greeted with a picture-perfect model of a pre-WWII-era diner. High ceilings, vintage wallpaper, wooden tables, scuffed tile floors, cushy red leather booths and an old-school, lunch counter-style open kitchen make for a historically sentimental scene."[2] and also say that "The Nickel dishes up a big helping of downtown L.A."[3]
Los Angeles magazine names Nickel Diner as one of the three best restaurants in LA.[4]
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