The Nickel Opens 2009 on a High Note

By Ed Fuentes
Published: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, at 10:12PM

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Page 74 of Los Angeles Magazine January 2009 issue featuring LA's Best New Restaurants.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The January 2009 issue of Los Angeles Magazine places Monica and Kristen’s Nickel Diner as the third best new restaurant in L.A.

The Palate in Glendale, and Gjelina in Venice, are respectively listed as number one and two in the list of ten selected restaurants.

This ends a good 2008 for the Main street eatery that locals call “The Nickel.” It’s been touted in Column One of the Los Angeles Times and noted by the New York Times Style Magazine as one highlight of Downtowns’ resurging Historic Core. Even pastry chef Sharlena Fong's Bacon Donut had some airtime in November.

The future's bright for both the restaurant and Downtown diners: the eatery will add long-awaited dinner hours in January.

Nickel Diner / 524 S. Main

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Comments

loveandhatela writes:

yeah also noticed that..i was really proud they got that attention and honor by LA magazine.

# on Dec.31.2008 AT 09:10 AM

brady Westwater writes:

Curbed's 'Eater LA' poll also had four people list the Nickel as one of the top new restaurants in all of LA.

# on Jan.01.2009 AT 01:00 PM

Beav writes:

Truly happy for them and they deserve the press and accolades.

Wish that more new restaurants downtown were as deserving.

# on Jan.01.2009 AT 09:05 PM

steve Lamb writes:

I guess the Nickel may be a good place, but I have noticed with publications celebrating the downtown area that they are avoiding long term successful places that also now happen to have a latino client base, like as a perfect example CLIFTON'S. I was at CLIFTON'S last weekend and picked up a paper promoting the rebirth of the downtown area. All kinds of places on it, but amazingly not anything on Broadway at all, and there is much there.

Is this rebirth of downtown about a white gentrification only?

# on Oct.20.2009 AT 08:21 AM