Musso & Frank Grill

The Musso and Frank Grill displays a red neon sign that marks the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. Opened in nineteen nineteen, it serves as a portal to a time before the film industry became a global machine. Behind the high-backed wooden booths, Charlie Chaplin once challenged Douglas Fairbanks to a horse race down the boulevard. The waiters in their red jackets still serve flannel cakes and martinis exactly the way they did when the writers of the golden age sat here to write their scripts.