Where to eat at and around Silver Lake Pool & Inn

Within ten minutes on foot

• Bulan Thai Vegetarian Kitchen

  5 min walk

  Thai vegetarian kitchen · $

  A vegetarian Thai kitchen that cooks with tofu and soy chicken and uses no meat or MSG, across the boulevard from Erewhon. Green curry is $14, pad thai $14.25 and kow soi, the northern Thai curry noodles, $17.50, with rice $3 extra; vegan dishes are marked on the menu. It is open every day from 11:30am to 9pm and takes walk-ins. It is the cheap, quick dinner for a night with no booking, and the walk home is short.

  Walk in4114 Santa Monica Boulevard

• Café Stella

  5 min walk

  French bistro and cocktail bar · $$$

  A French bistro on Sunset, with a brick-walled dining room and a patio behind a gate. Order escargots with the baguette and Bordier butter, oysters by the half dozen, steak frites or sole meunière, and finish with the île flottante. Dinner is every night from 5:30pm to 10:30pm, with a prix fixe on Monday and Tuesday only, and it is worth booking. Bar Stella next door pours until midnight from Sunday to Tuesday and 2am from Wednesday to Saturday. The dress code rules out hats, tank tops, flip-flops and team sportswear.

  Reserve ahead3932 Sunset Boulevard

• The Black Cat

  5 min walk

  Tavern and restaurant, 21 and over · $$

  A tavern named after the Black Cat bar, whose raid in 1967 and the protest that followed made this corner a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and a California Historical Landmark. The present restaurant opened in 2012, cooks until 11pm and pours until 2am. Order the maniche alla vodka, the beer-battered fish and chips or the hanger steak. Happy hour is 4pm to 6pm on weekdays, and the doors open at 4pm on weekdays and 2pm at weekends. Tables can be booked for up to nine, but walk-ins are fine.

  Walk in3909 Sunset Boulevard

• Tartine Silver Lake

  5 min walk

  Bakery café with an all-day breakfast menu · $$

  The Silver Lake branch of the San Francisco bakery, at the Junction, with an all-day breakfast menu and open every day until 3pm. Order the shakshuka tartine or the soft scramble tartine with labneh and smoked trout roe, both $15.50, or the omelette at $16.95, with a cappuccino at $5.75 or a morning bun latte at $6.95. It is the answer to a late breakfast, since Marco Polo stops serving it at 11am on weekdays.

  Walk in3921 Sunset Boulevard

• Barr Seco

  7 min walk

  Natural-wine bar · $$$

  A compact wine bar on Sunset, with about 25 seats, pouring natural wines by the glass with small plates to go with them: pan con tomate, a sugar snap pea salad and Hokkaido scallops in butter and lemon. It opens at 5pm every day and closes at 11pm. The pavement outside fills at busy times, so reserve if you want a seat at a set hour, and walk in early if you do not. It suits one glass before dinner at Café Stella, or a long evening in its own right.

  Reserve ahead3820 Sunset Boulevard

• Pine & Crane

  10 min walk

  Taiwanese café, MICHELIN Bib Gourmand · $

  The one place here in the MICHELIN Guide: a Bib Gourmand in the 2026 selection, for a casual Taiwanese café on the Sunset Triangle plaza. Order the three-cup Jidori chicken in its clay pot, the basil eggplant, the twice-cooked pork and the vegetarian mapo tofu. It takes no reservations and seats first come, first served, and it is open from noon to 10pm every day except Tuesday. The plaza outside is public, so you can eat there, but without alcohol or glassware.

  Walk in1521 Griffith Park Boulevard

• Mashti Malone's

  10 min walk

  Persian ice cream shop · $

  A Persian ice cream shop a few doors from Pine & Crane, making flavours such as saffron, rosewater and lavender. Order a cone and eat it on the Sunset Triangle plaza after dinner at Pine & Crane. This is the Silver Lake shop, one of three, the others being in Westwood and on La Brea. It is open from 11am to 10pm from Monday to Wednesday and to 11pm from Thursday to Sunday, and it is a scoop-and-go place with no booking.

  Walk in1529 Griffith Park Boulevard

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