I took this photograph of Coral Cafe at 3AM in the morning.

It reminds me a bit of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

I get e-mail with people asking why I eat there so much? I also get letters where people tell me they've gone there after reading about the place on this page.

I love hanging out there!

All the servers have great personalities and the customer's are such a cast of characters that it's never boring.

If you go there early in the morning you can meet all the movie people going to the studios to work.

If you go after 2AM you can meet strippers getting off their shift.

If you go there at 8PM on Thursday night you can always meet famous science fiction writers along with all the members of the oldest continuously operating science fiction club in the world.

Never is there a time on the clock when the place doesn't have some law-enforcement officers cooling their heels and resting their butts, they always have great stories.

There is a group of about eight cops who are huge cinephiles and love obscure cinema. If you get a chance to sit next to them, prepare to take notes for your next DVD rentals.

The place gets their crazy people, too. I think that is just spicing and gives the place flavor.

One of my favorite people that works there is Hector, we bonded years ago when one morning as we each were going to our cars, we saw a circular object with five bright lights glide quietly overhead and then shoot off into the stars at an extremely high rate of speed. I looked at Hector and said, "What the hell was that?"

"I don't noooooo..." as he ran to his car!

He is now a full blown UFOlogist and is always stopping by my table to tell me in broken English some strange alien video he's seen on Telemundo.

Famous people are always eating there!

Maybe not the famous people you see on Good Day LA, but the more interesting famous people. I just hope it doesn't get overrun and crowded with the Hollywood types we all can't stand...

But I've only seen a few Agents there.