Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe

 
Longstanding Mexican restaurant… Closed in 2019… May reopen in 2024… or 2025… or 2026…

Address: 5536 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Phone: (323) 462-9421

Hours: 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM, every day

Hollywood Stalwart Since 1964.

Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe is where Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Brown first met sometime in 1971 when Brown was California secretary of state.

Ran away from home when I was seventeen
To be with you on the California coast
Drinking margaritas all night in the old cantina…

The cantina mentioned in Jimmy Webb’s song Adios is Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe.