Breakfast for dinner
The next time you’re in the Hollywood area and feel like pancakes after dark, there’s Nighthawk Breakfast Bar. This is the restaurant that opened next to Sadie’s, on Las Palmas Avenue, just south of Hollywood Boulevard, right in the middle of a sidewalk packed with club kids and the smokers waiting to go back inside. It’s the latest project from Jeremy Fall, the night life king behind the Hollywood nightclubs Genesis and Golden Box. The concept is late-night breakfast, served from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m., and only Wednesday to Saturday. It’s dark inside (really dark), there’s a DJ playing great ’80s and ’90s music, each table is presented with a section of the Los Angeles Times newspaper (we’re not affiliated in any way, honestly), most everything on the menu comes with a fried egg — and there are spiked cereal milk cocktails. Think of it as an adult-breakfast Disneyland with plenty of booze and Tinder-friendly lighting. The menu is a list of breakfast and brunch comfort foods, but nothing is traditional. The fried chicken comes with sweet potato pancakes; the Benedict fries are basically French fries in a really gooey smoked paprika cheese hollandaise sauce, topped with a fried egg. All of the cocktails are basically things you drank as a kid, spiked with liquor, including Fruity-Pebbles-infused milk with gin. You can even order something called a Julius Maximus that involves orange juice, milk, gin, ice and vanilla. A boozy almost Orange Julius and a stack of sweet potato flapjacks before bed? Why not?