The story
LA's oldest restaurant claims to have invented the French dip while connected to a network of Prohibition bootlegging tunnels.
Everything that was here
- 1908–2026
Cole's Pacific Electric BuffetRestaurant
LA's oldest restaurant claims to have invented the French dip while connected to a network of Prohibition bootlegging tunnels.
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