Nickel Diner Welcomes You!

Now Open for Dinner!

Nickel Diner, offering up your favorite classic diner fare -- fantastic flapjacks, burgers, sandwiches, and salads with updated flare and flavor, is now open evenings!

So stop in for our exuberantly received breakfast and lunch -- 8am to 3:30pm, Tuesday thru Sunday, our our new dinner menu served from 6pm to 11pm, Tuesdays through Sundays.

Come visit us in the heart of downtown LA! Art Walk visitors come on in, we'd love to meet you.

Need help finding us? Map & Directions

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little chefNickel Diner is looking for strong, solid linecooks and pastry assistants. Contact Monica or Sharlena, 213-623-8301 or by email or apply in person, 524 S.Main, downtown between 5th and 6th Streets.

I've been in more laps than a napkin

Thanks to everyone for the great reviews! Haven't read 'em? Here's a sampling:

Be sure to check back -- we're being featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives with Guy Fieri!

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