At 3200 W. Sunset Blvd., the takeout window stays open until 3 a.m. now. The dining room behind it is planned with plaid booths, mosaic tile and wood-paneled walls that copy a diner on Beverly Boulevard. The corner used to be All Day Baby. After that it was a smash burger shop for about a year. Now it's Swingers, whose takeout window has opened, according to The Eastsider.
Swingers opened in a room people remember, and so did every other notable opening in Silver Lake this fall: a former Say Cheese, a former Spoon & Pork, a 1931 church. Most of the newcomers have built their pitch around what the address already meant. On October 30 the Los Angeles City Council did the same thing for the one restaurant on this map that never moved, voting to name its Hyperion Avenue corner after it.
The Sunset corner that keeps changing tenants
All Day Baby announced in November 2024 that it would close, and its last day of service was set for December 15 of that year, according to Eater LA. Heavy Handed opened on the corner in March 2025 and closed in spring 2026, about a year later.
The third tenant is coming at the space differently. Stephanie Wilson has worked at Swingers since 2010 and took over as owner when the diner reopened in November 2020. She told Eater LA she hopes to add a dish honoring All Day Baby chef Jonathan Whitener. "I'm really honored to take over the space that All Day Baby had," she said. "They had such a huge following, and the chef was so special to so many people."
Wilson also explained why she picked the Eastside, and her answer is about who has moved here. Her longtime regulars kept telling her things like "I don't come so often because I moved to Silver Lake or I moved to Echo Park," she told Eater. So the diner is coming to the customers who left its old neighborhood, and it's setting up in a room that already had its own following.
Here's what's on the corner right now:
- Now: takeout only, 6 p.m. to 3 a.m.
- December: the dining room is slated to open, with hours of 8 a.m. to 3 a.m.
- The menu: the same as on Beverly, so California omelets, buttermilk pancakes, the Swingers burger with sautéed onions and a hot turkey sandwich, plus Silver Lake specials that are still in the works.
Down Sunset, a room named for being small
Briciola opened in mid-September in the former Spoon & Pork space on Sunset Boulevard. Spoon & Pork was one of the closures on Eater LA's year-end list for 2025. Briciola means "crumb" in Italian, a nod to the small dining room. Owner Mattia Raimondi and chef Matteo Di Nicola closed their Michelin-recognized Newbury Park restaurant, Cedro, in late 2025 so they could move to Los Angeles.
Raimondi was born in Belo Horizonte and raised in Northern Italy, and the menu reads the way you'd expect from that. There's bolinho de bacalhau with red pepper sauce, cavatappi in a pink sauce made with cachaça instead of vodka and topped with linguiça calabresa, and spaghetti alla nerano made with queijo Minas instead of provolone. "We already have some regulars," Raimondi told Eater LA. "It's just exciting to be here and part of the community right on Sunset."
Of this fall's arrivals, Briciola is the one that isn't trading on the room's past. It shares Sunset with Swingers, so you can put the two side by side and see the difference.
On Hyperion, a bakery takes over a 53-year-old habit
2800 Hyperion Ave., next to Trader Joe's, was Say Cheese for more than five decades. The Los Angeles Times reported that Jack and Esther Goldstyn opened the shop in 1972, and its last public day was April 23, 2025, nearly 53 years later.
The new tenant is Jyan Isaac Bread. It started in 2020 selling loaves to neighbors and grew into farmers market stalls, a Santa Monica bakery and cafe and a Culver City commissary. According to Eater LA, the Silver Lake menu includes bagel sandwiches in the morning, the French onion grilled cheese and chicken katsu on Shokupan Texas toast. It seats 32 inside and 16 on the patio, and its interior by M. Winter Design uses locally sourced materials, furniture from local makers and vintage lighting.
Hours are listed as 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, with weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Starting in 2027, the bakery plans to stay open into the evening as a wine bar serving bread, cheese, charcuterie and tinned fish. Bread, cheese and a counter beside the grocery store is close to what that address sold for 53 years.
Off the boulevards, a sanctuary that serves dinner
The furthest-traveled room on this list is on Griffith Park Boulevard. The building at 1629 Griffith Park Blvd. went up in 1931 as Bethany Presbyterian Church. The Los Angeles Times reported that it later served as an antique shop, a filming location and the home of the Delusion theater experience. Now it's Hotel Lucile, and the restaurant and bar sit in the old sanctuary.
That restaurant is Sous Sous, from the De La Nonna team. It opened September 14 with a menu that mixes French cooking with Southern hospitality, and chef Patrick Costa described it to Eater LA as having "refreshing elements." The building has had at least four lives so far, and it marketed this latest one around the original.
The one that never had to start over
Every address above has turned over at least once since 2024. Casita del Campo, the pink Mexican restaurant on Hyperion Avenue, hasn't. Rudy Del Campo founded it in 1962 after a dancing career that included the 1961 film "West Side Story," according to The Eastsider.
This fall the city voted to put that history on a sign. Here's how Council File 26-1276 moved:
- September 4, 2026: Councilmember Nithya Raman's motion, seconded by Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, went to the Public Works Committee.
- October 13, 2026: the committee approved it.
- October 30, 2026: the full Council adopted it 12 to 0, with three members absent, naming the intersection of Hyperion Avenue and Udell Court "Del Campo Square."
The file is titled for permanent ceremonial signage. The newcomers on Sunset and Hyperion are each borrowing some of the memory attached to their addresses, whether that's a tribute dish or a bakery doing what the cheese shop did. Casita del Campo kept its address the whole time, and now the city has named the corner after it.
A Saturday through the old addresses
The route goes in order of opening hours:
- Jyan Isaac Bread, 2800 Hyperion Ave., for a bagel sandwich after the 7 a.m. opening or for weekend brunch starting at 10.
- Hyperion Avenue and Udell Court to see the corner the Council just named Del Campo Square, with Casita del Campo on the block.
- Sous Sous at Hotel Lucile, 1629 Griffith Park Blvd., for a meal in the 1931 sanctuary.
- Briciola on Sunset for dinner. With a dining room that small, plan ahead for a table.
- Swingers, 3200 W. Sunset Blvd., for late-night takeout pancakes from the window, which stays open until 3 a.m. until the dining room opens in December.
Do you have a Silver Lake address with a story behind it, whether that's a storefront you still miss, a building you've seen go through several lives or a corner you think deserves a sign? We'd love to hear it. Lexi Newman Team keeps track of how these blocks change so neighbors have someone to call when they're wondering what's next. Connect with your real estate best friend.
