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Original Pantry Cafe

877 S Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(213) 972-9279
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Web Links: 16 Links
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Hours:   24 Hours Daily
Categories:   American, Late Night, Steakhouse
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Original Pantry Cafe has been selected as a best restaurant by a major publication or website.

Nominated Best Late-Night Dining - AOL CityGuide Poll 2006


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calendarlive.com review
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"Open since 1924, the Pantry offers all-American basics done right and served up fast. During lunch and dinner hours, each table gets coleslaw and a loaf of sour sourdough bread (58 tons of which are served a year)...."
dinesite.com review
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"Owned by the current mayor of Los Angles Richard Riordian this cafeteria-diner characteristic eatery, feels like it still is being run back when it was built in 1924. Open 24 hours seven days a week the interior portrays all of the years that it has been..."
frommers.com review
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"institution in a city that thrives on change, this bastion of blue-collar cooking has been serving huge portions of comfort food around the clock since 1924. mayor and botched governor contender Richard Riordan, the cash-only Pantry is popular with politi..."
gayot.com review
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"Former mayor Richard Riordan is the proud owner of this downtown landmark. Those who swear by this place love the charbroiled steaks, oversized pork and lamb chops and daily specials like macaroni and cheese, plus the coleslaw and relish tray full of cris..."
hollyeats.com review
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judysbook.com review
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"Great if you're heading home from a party and you're hungry and nothing else is open. The food is quite greasy, but that doesn't seem to bother many folks...."

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la.com review
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"The breakfasts—enormous omelets, very good bacon, pan-fried potatoes and thick sliced bread—are legendary. Lunch and dinner offers standard diner food, and on holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, turkey dinners arrive with all the expecte..."
lataco.com review
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"I hit the burger on my last visit, which arrived with no fixings, save for onion integrated in the patty. Mediocre burgers often get saved by tons of fixins and there’s nothing on this save cheese, so it’s pure beef really...."
laweekly.com review
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"We gravitate to joints like the Pantry because they offer more than a simple anodyne to the homogeneity of the strip mall. This restaurant qua monument quietly chants the mantra, "Hey, if I"m still here after 75 years, you"re still here, too...."
losangeles.metromix.com review
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"This is pretty much the prototype for the classic greasy spoon diner. They claim to have been open continuously since the 1920's, and we believe them...."
search.cityguide.aol.com review
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"Now in its eighth decade in business -- and showing every last day of it -- former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's restaurant definitely has its own special charm. It's a noisy, no-nonsense, open-into-the-wee-hours landmark with elderly waiters, plain..."

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thenewdiner.blogspot.com review
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"My best memories of childhood is watching Bert Jones, Lydell Mitchell, Roger Carr, the Sack Pack win three straight AFC East Division titles. I can remember watching the Baltimore Colts running onto the field in those blue uniforms and the white helmets w..."
tripadvisor.com review
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"Owned by a former mayor of Los Angeles, The Original Pantry is the ultimate comfort food restaurant. I typically get roast beef and walk out with an unbeatably content feeling...."
wcities.com review
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"This is the kind of place your grandparents loved - and probably still go to. Owned by ex-Mayor Richard Riordan, it is open 24 hours a day and has not closed since 1924...."
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