Welcome to Nickel Diner!
Our Maple Bacon Donut seems to be our morning celebrity!
Our homemade vanilla creme filled devil’s food cupcake
Shaker Lemon Pie, a light sweet pasty shell with lemon custard
Forget your toaster, our mixed-berry jam tarts do pop!
Salt Peanut Cake… peanut butter and potato chips.
Seems everyone has a red velvet cake these days, but ours is da bomb!
photography by Kimberli Ransom Photography
Reviews & News
Thanks to everyone for the great reviews! Haven't read 'em? Here's a sampling:
- “The Nickel dishes up a big helping of downtown L.A.” — Los Angeles Times
- “good food and a link to the past” — angelenic.com
- Los Angeles Magazine's “LA's Best New Restaurants”
- “Baconated Brilliance” — Los Angeles City Beat
The Nickel… is a new kind of downtown diner, a Ships for a generation for whom full-sleeve tattoos are the new black, and it’s about time.
- Jonathan Gold
LA Weekly
Sharlena Fong Your Nickel Diner Pastry Chef
We're receive gobs and tons of questions (and special requests) for our deserts, of which we are quite proud. Sharlena does an incredible job!
Yes, we take orders.
Cakes, pies, pastries, mini-cakes -- our baking folks can really knock your socks off (you have heard about the Pop Rocks Mini-Cupcakes, right?).
Let us know what you need, but please give us 24 hours advanced notice!
Food Network
Catch us 10PM Monday, October 19th on Food Network's “Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives” with Guy Fieri (we've always wanted to say "As Seen on TV"!). 
They we're in last month to tape, and though it was incredibly tiring, we had a blast. Just wouldn't want to do it every day ;-p
The Nickel In Print
Don't know whether you saw us in July's Elle magazine, the one with Gwen Stefani on the cover? The one we have taped all over the counter? No? Well, that's OK, stop in and we'll show you one of our dozen copies! Really please to have been included.
Share Your Ideas
We're ever evolving our menus and would appreciate hearing from you -- your preferences, favorites, or ideas. Drop us a line: 5cdiner gmail.
If you're interested in ordering from our bakery give us a call, (213) 623-8301 (24 hours advanced notice, please).
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