{"id":128122,"date":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128122\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","slug":"coles-french-dip-is-closing-an-ode-to-the-los-angeles-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128122\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole&#8217;s French Dip is Closing: An Ode to the Los Angeles Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s U.S.C. vs. U.C.L.A., the Crips and the Bloods, or M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce brawling with Guns N\u2019 Roses at the V.M.A.\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/arts-intel\/cities\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a> is infamously factional. But its most aged beef is about beef. For more than a century, the two oldest restaurants in the City of Angels\u2014Philippe the Original and Cole\u2019s Pacific Electric Buffet\u2014feuded over the true provenance of the French-dip sandwich, which (this much is undisputed) was first served in 1908. In Cole\u2019s version, the eureka moment occurred when the original house chef soaked the bread in savory broth to soften it for a sore-gummed customer.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the quarrel will be settled by forfeit, as Cole\u2019s makes its last dip in the au jus. The restaurant\u2019s imminent closure was first announced this past summer in a statement from owner Cedd Moses (son of the Ferus Gallery artist Ed), who blamed the lingering aftereffects of the pandemic, the Hollywood strikes, bureaucratic regulations, and the exorbitant costs of labor, food, and rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether it\u2019s U.S.C. vs. U.C.L.A., the Crips and the Bloods, or M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce brawling with Guns N\u2019 Roses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[66079,66080,66081,66082,66083,66084,66085,5319,19002,66086,48,52,51,47,50,49,66087,66088,66089,66090,66091,66092,66093,66094,29719,66095],"class_list":["post-128122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-213-hospitality-group","tag-ace-hotel","tag-cedd-moses","tag-charles-bukowski","tag-coles-pacific-electric-buffet","tag-dorothy-parker","tag-ferus-gallery","tag-forrest-gump","tag-jonathan-gold","tag-jose-huizar","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mad-men","tag-mickey-cohen","tag-neil-fraser","tag-pacific-electric-railway-company","tag-phillipe-the-original","tag-pouring-with-heart","tag-the-smell","tag-the-varnish","tag-warren-zevon","tag-who-framed-roger-rabbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}