Pipers Restaurant on Western Avenue
Korean-owned American Restaurant in Koreatown — open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Update: Pipers has since closed.
It’s on your right as you drive up Western Avenue towards Beverly Boulevard.
Pipers has been open since 1964, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner anytime — everything from coleslaw to kimchi, omelet to steak. American classics served include club sandwiches with roasted turkey, seafood pasta, and fish and chips. The dessert of the house is rice pudding.
Being in Koreatown, the restaurant of course serves Korean dishes like donkasu (fried pork cutlet fashioned from the Japanese tonkatsu) and galbi (barbecued ribs). Other international items are French toast, Belgian waffles, Shanghai eggrolls, and BBQ chicken pizzadilla (pizza + quesadilla). And being in Koreatown of course, it frequently has a B health rating, even a C.
Their bar / beer garden is open from 4 pm until 2 am. Free popcorn to go with 18 kinds of tap beer. Sporting events are shown on a big screen.
What’s notable about the sports bar is that it’s marketed as a separate entity with its own name — Mok Maru Jong Suljip — yet the city technically considers it only a “patio” of Pipers the restaurant — somehow the owner has taken the “patio” designation as license to allow smoking in his bar.
Free parking in the back and accepts Mastercard and Visa credit cards.
Address: 222 N. Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90004