FOR 20 YEARS the 101 Coffee Shop (known before that as the Hollywood Hills Coffee Shop) was a steady, low-key hang for actors, screenwriters and literary types, tourists and locals. Even if you never physically visited the place, it might look familiar. It’s where Vince Vaughn stands on a table and shouts at Jon Favreau about being “growns up” in the 1996 film “Swingers.” Grief poured out on social media in January 2021 when word spread that the 101 had closed. Then, nearly a year later, a new chapter began: Clark Street Bakery founder Zack Hall took over its space. He has navigated the community’s collective nostalgia with extreme care.

Juan Pablo Garcia, who was chef at the Brentwood outpost of Clark Street Bread, leads the kitchen. The breakfast and lunch diner classics are stealthy good, as in finely tuned and arguably better than they need to be. There’s nowhere in Los Angeles I’d rather eat a three-high stack of blueberry pancakes. Corned beef hash delivers satisfying proportions of crisp-soft spuds, salty wisps of meat and over-easy eggs. The spirit truly reanimating the scene, though, is the staff. Sally Stewart, with her ageless rock ’n’ roll energy (her husband is, in fact, a touring musician), had worked as a server at the 101 and returned. She practices a steely sort of patience when friends change their order three times in 90 seconds. I’m always happy when she walks up to our table.

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