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Pacific Dining Car is a restaurant in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1921 by the couple Fred and Grace Cook at the backyard of a friend's house, and has since expanded to Santa Monica. The restaurant is currently run by Wes Idol II, a grandchild of the founders. It is open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days per year, including Christmas and other holidays, and this is a major factor in its popularity. The Pacific Dining Car is well known for its extensive menu ranging from filet mignon to its "baseball steak". The restaurant has also appeared in mainstream media, being used as a set for movies and TV series such as Training Day and Shameless.

History
Drawing inspiration from a business with a similar theme after dining in a New York-based restaurant owned by an Irishman, Fred and Grace Cook pitched the idea of a modified railway dining car experience to their friend Kline, who was able to lend them the use of his backyard. Another friend, "Shorty", was also responsible for the construction side of the project. A few of the modifications that Fred and Grace made to their specifications were that the dining car was made to be more spacious with plans for comfortable seating arrangements, as they agreed that typical railway dining experience was too cramped. When the modified dining car was completed, it was moved to a site the couple had leased at 7th and Westlake, Los Angeles. This took place at night to avoid busy traffic with the help of steel wheels installed onto the dining car.

Business went well from the start, as the Pacific Dining Car featured a welcoming menu with reasonably priced steaks and pies made by Grace Cook, or "Lovey" as she was known to her friends. , Word of the restaurant's food spread, and it wasn't long before it attracted both locals and foreigners alike.

In 1923, when the property market reached a new state of frenzy and the land, 7th and Westlake, Los Angeles California which the dining car resides in was bought out by a speculator, and as a result, the restaurant was forced to relocate and eventually the restaurant moved to 1310 W 6th Street, Los Angeles, California, which the restaurant resides to this day. With the lack of proper air conditioning of the dining car, it offers much less protection against the hot summers of Los Angeles and thus the Pacific Dining Car could only operate throughout the week but only 9 months out of 12 to account for summer, it is that during this time, customers would be greeted with a daring sign that reads "Too. D. got in L.A. Gone Fishing. Why the H. don't you go, too? -Fred and Grace "

In 1927, a customer who was also a San Diego rancher offered to not only teach Fred how the select the ideal kind of beef but also show Fred the most preferred way to hang and age the beef selected so that it would taste the best. This effort has not gone to waste as the reputation of the steak of the Dining Car has spread across the city, and business was rising day by day. However, soon Fred and Grace was frustrated to find that due to their increasing reputation, their competitors were buying off the supply of good steaks before the couple could even get their hands on them, and thus the Pacific Dining Car was at a time, always on shortage of good steaks. The solution was found by Fred and Lovey at the moment where they decided to transport the meat directly to the Pacific Dining Car for age and hang the beef, at their very own curing box. This has successfully managed to mitigate the problem faced by the Pacific Dining Car at the time. Throughout the 1920s the Pacific Dining Car managed to provide excellent food with a simple with a main focus on steak and fries.

The Great Depression slowed down business all over the nation, and the Pacific Dining Car is no exception, the Pacific Dining Car showed empathy during this time, where when the restaurant would be asked, numerous times in a day for any food during the day, every one of those come begging would be asked to come back after work hours, at 9 pm, to dine together with the staff of the Pacific Dining Car. At the end of the day, any leftovers would be collected and passed on through to the nearby mission to further help those in need.

During this time, Fred and Grace's daughter came back to California after her graduation and got married with Wes Idol who was an electrical contractor. This young couple occasionally helped out in Pacific Dining Car just in case there is some request from restaurant. After they been through Prohibition time, Wes Idol decide to started own business in 1935 called Cook's steakhouse which was located at downtown Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Fred and Grace expanded dining car by adding more seats.

However, during the World War II, Wes had to join the army. The menu of their restaurant was limited.

Menu
Pacific Dining Car was a family business for 98 years, which can explain that this restaurant did not change much on food recipe compare to original from generation to generation. And it still remains opening time to 24 hours in every day. The basic menus of the Pacific Dining Car were categorized by time to Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Desserts. Besides, there are some additional menus is made for special conditions, such as Afternoon Tea menu is only available by appointment, Late Night menu served between 10pm-6am. All the menus above is available for 24h delivery currently which is benefits two area, downtown L.A and Santa Monica.

Clientele
Due to the location of the Pacific Dining Car, located at downtown of Los Angeles, there is a huge variety in the client list of the restaurant, ranging from stockbrokers, lawyers, to newspaper reporters and the occasional celebrity.

Acclaimed Columnist Louella Parsons alongside her husband, Dr. Martin, are among the notable guest of the Pacific Dining Car. George Raft as he is known as Sid Ziff also frequented the restaurant for steak. Infamous gangster Mickey Cohen and Mae West, a female icon of the era, were also regulars there.

Notable guests also include actors Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp, as well as Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Media appearances
As one of the oldest restaurants in L.A., Pacific Dining Car has appeared in several films and TV series. In 2001, it appeared in the film Training Day. In it, Denzel Washington recommends the "baseball meatball" to Three Wise Men, which led the restaurant to name the meatball after Training Day on its lunch menu.

Pacific Dining Car has also been briefly presented in other films, such as Chinatown in 1974, Street Kings in 2008, and Rampart in 2011.