The Formosa Cafe, opened in 1939, is West Hollywood’s most enduring dive. This month, it's roaring back to life.
The Formosa Cafe, opened in 1939, is West Hollywood’s most enduring dive. Known for its classic cocktails, greasy Cantonese cooking and kitschy black-and-red lacquered décor, it’s had many lives in its 80 years. Elvis once tipped a waitress there with a Cadillac .
Frank Sinatra drank there in the 1950s, Warren Beatty in the ’70s. In the ’80s and ’90s, you might have seen the Beastie Boys or Bono sipping a Mai Tai. Chef-owner Lem Quon presided over the dining room from 1948 until his death in 1993. Efforts to raze the building were long met with opposition. Then, in 2016, Quon’s grandson Vince Jung...
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