Community members hope to save iconic Santa Monica diner
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- Efforts are underway to save an iconic diner in Santa Monica, California. It’s hard to miss Patrick’s Roadhouse when driving down Pacific Coast Highway with its bright-green exterior adorned with dinosaurs and kitschy sculptures on the roof. Founded by Bill Fischler in 1973, the iconic diner has been a staple for many locals and celebrities alike including Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Golden Hawn and more.
Throughout the years, the restaurant has been crowned “Best Diner in California,” “Best Banana Cream Pie in the USA” and in 2024, it was named “Best Diner in the USA.” Patrick’s Roadhouse has been featured twice on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” and the 1991 film, “Point Break.”
However, despite its storied legacy, the diner was not spared during the COVID-19 pandemic and has struggled to recuperate the rent that was owed during the forced closure of dining rooms. A GoFundMe campaign hopes to raise enough money to pay the back rent owed from that time.
KTLA's Sara Welch reports on April 27, 2024.
Details: ktla.com/news/local-news/effo...
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Idiots want to save a restaurant but they don't want to save their town that's being run down
it's a pretty nice town in my experience., but this is in another city, and has terrible traffic access that is also from another time.
KTLA is worthless at this point!
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Kinda doubt it was voted the best diner in the USA.
They've been there for 52 years and still don't own the place?
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Pacific Palisades.. not Santa Monica
I'm saying!
The address is Santa Monica. Pacific Palisades is a neighborhood, like Hollywood is. There is no post office that would indicate incorporation. Don't be a stickler.
To me, it's awesome to see old buildings!!! I think they have so much charm and history!! I think these buildings are very beautiful in their own way 😍 ❤️ 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🛕!!!!
I used to go to Paul's Barber Shop (opened in the 1940's) in Venice. The new owner kept raising the rent and it eventually closed down. It has sat empty for years now.
Point Break was filmed at Neptunes Net
We must save this iconic diner hub. People who ate here wants to keep their cherished memories alive to enjoy the food. We hope these diners can save this place by their generous donations.
That place should be preserved and not steamrolled
Guy Fieri featured this restaurant in Diners Drive Ins and Dives. Guy Fieri loved their food.😢
Screw Guy Fieri. He’s worth a few hundred million, been to countless super delicious restaurants around the world, learned their recipes and sometimes even secret recipes and so he opens his own restaurants and you think with everything he learned the place would be 🔥🔥 but what does Guy do? Put overpriced garbage on the menu like “trash can nachos” and just regular overpriced hamburgers.
GF is a nob.
Been there and it is a local land mark that draws a small crowd. Eventually it will go the way so many have. It would be nice to see a list like the Brown Derbie, and so many others that are now gone but still remembered.
The Lair, The Crest House, The Buggy Whip, Billingsliy's. So many.
Dinah's in Culver City is closing its doors next week after 65 years!! So sad!
They're moving, not closing.
The entrance to Patricks Roadhouse is an historical building. It was the train depot when the railway ran parallel to the shore to reach the Long Wharf. It's the only building left original to that area. I ate there and enjoyed the food. It's a PCH institution. There is no place like it anywhere.
This is not in Santa Monica
But it's in Santa Monica Canyon?
The owners should reconsider abd think about what happened before the pandemic, how well & deserving their tenants are based on timely payments, relationship, foot traffic generated in the area just in case the owners have other interest in the area, the goodwill and continuity with the community history. PLEASE...🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Gladstones didn't renew their lease so it was closed for a bit but it opened back up.
I drove by with my Dad one day and remarked that I wanted to try it. He said it was over priced a crappy burger. He’d never go back.
Good food there
Isn’t Arnie part owner of this joint?
Can i buy the statues?😂😂
“Big angels” are only gonna donate big money if us every day people don’t scrap up enough??
Point Break restaurant scene 🎞
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Been in business for decades and happy but never thought to buy their own building or open land to build on......keeping the history alive. They had decades to plan their business out, what works best going forward what doesnt work.....its not the pandemics fault...it was their own fault for not thinking ahead and anticipating problems like any other forward thinking business corporation.
Don't know much about the real estate climate there, just guessing. It's a shame, yes, they didn't buy the building. That's because you rarely find prime retail real estate for sale. This place is right on PCH. You rent, not rent to own. There is no open land there...not since the 1950s. The location of Patrick's Roadhouse dates back to the late 1800s when a railway ran along the shore, serving the Long Wharf--and why Santa Monica was beaten out by San Pedro to be the Port of Los Angeles...you have to look it up and learn about it. The entrance to Patricks is the original depot building from the 1800s. The history is quite interesting. Don't be petty about what they knew or didn't know. You clearly don't know the low margin food service and grocery retail operate with. Not every restaurant has the benefit of McDonalds business model--automated, overpriced cheap food that makes you sick so the shareholders are happy when there's an uptick in the stock.
Patrick's is an institution. Donate to their go fund me; be part of the solution not part of the problem.
@@MeMeDaVinci sorry never donating to their gofundme. poor business skills and they will be an example for others to learn from.....next....lol
It is just me!? Or lately, most of KTLAs are Go Fund Me sad stories.
what's with all the diced onions in the supermarket people can't chop their own onions
Another good restaurant that's just out of my way. Oh well, time to go anyway
just add a $100.00 surcharge to each order.
Wow, this whole time I thought Patrick Swayze owned this place!
Me 2.
Best diner in USA !?
Is this why there is no affordable housing in California? Because every 50-year-old building is considered “historical”? Build housing!
Members of the community have agreed to vote for a new restaurant.
food is mid.
Its sad theyre renting after all these years
Bankrupt for a reason
Lmao. That place is an eye sore. Be gone
the place is tore up and falling apart, land lord gave up doing the maintenance since they stopped paying rent. they are just there for the location.
Who cares, just let another gross apartment building be built there like all of the other memorable places in the neighborhood.
They really need a Taco Bell there, or maybe a Burger King.
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