Musso and Frank Grill

Hollywood’s oldest restaurant, Musso and Frank Grill, opened at this location in 1919. Among the restaurant’s many celebrity regulars were Raymond Burr, Orson Welles, Merv Griffin, and Jack Nicholson; Charlie Chaplin, a prominent star of his era, favored a booth near the front entrance. Writers including Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner also frequently dined here, as part of a loose group that became known as the “Algonquin Round Table West.” Columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons frequently conducted interviews with stars of the 1920s-1950s at the restaurant.