Food in Topanga

Built into a hillside on State Route 27, which is what the name is about, with a multi-level patio looking down the canyon. Almost all the seating is outdoors. They roast their own organic coffee, and the menu runs from avocado toast and grain bowls to lobster benedict and a Moroccan kofta tagine. There is a small shop.

Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Saturday and Sunday 8am to 4pm.

An indoor-outdoor pizza place in the Topanga Center, behind the post office, with a wood oven, a short wine list and a crate of second-hand records by the counter. It is newer than anything else in the canyon and it is still a walk-in with picnic tables. The 9pm close is the latest anything in Topanga keeps.

Daily, 10am to 9pm

Open in Topanga since 1975, under old sycamores beside the creek. Tables are set on stone terraces with lights strung through the branches, and there is covered seating plus an indoor space for cold nights. The cooking is Californian and seasonal, off local farms and the restaurant's own organic garden.

Lunch Monday to Friday 10am to 2:30pm, dinner from 5:30pm. Weekend brunch 9am to 3pm, dinner from 5:15pm

A shack at the county line where PCH runs out of Los Angeles, opened in 1956 as Panorama Pacific and renamed after a contest in 1971 when the Young family took the lease. You line up at one of two counters, fried on one side and steamed shellfish on the other, and eat at picnic tables with motorcycles parked across the lot. It has been in more films than anyone has counted.

March to October: Monday to Thursday 10:30am to 8pm, Friday 10:30am to 9pm, weekends 10am to 8:30pm. October to March it closes an hour earlier each day

The only restaurant in Malibu with its own private cove, with tables set directly on the sand. Bob Morris opened it in 1998 on land his father assembled acre by acre in the fifties. The parking lot is where Jim Rockford kept his trailer in The Rockford Files, and the cove turns up in Gidget and Beach Blanket Bingo.

Daily 8am to 9pm, with some listings running Friday and Saturday to 10pm. Breakfast 8am to 11am. The operator publishes no hours of its own.

A stone building on Mulholland that the Savko family turned into a store and grill in 1961, and which has been the gathering point for motorcyclists on this road ever since. You order a burger at the counter and eat it at a long table outside while two hundred bikes come and go. It shuts at five and closes Monday through Thursday, so the window is narrow and real.

Friday 9am to 5pm. Saturday and Sunday 7am to 5pm. Closed Monday to Thursday