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"Housed in a 1912 firehouse in Downtown Los Angeles, I found Engine Co. No. 28 serves classic American firehouse food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, offers a $5 perpetual happy hour, and even provides a shiny red shuttle to local shows and sporting events. The restaurant recently faced a legal setback after suing Travelers Indemnity Co. of Connecticut (and Mayor Eric Garcetti) in April to recoup losses from mandatory dining-room closures, arguing those revenue losses amounted to a physical loss; Judge André Birotte Jr. rejected the claim, saying the restaurant could “plausibly allege” a loss of use but the pandemic and lockdown orders did not physically alter the space and employees could still access the building, leaving the business structurally the same and the suit without much legal traction — a dismissal that represents another blow to restaurants hoping to recover pandemic losses through business-interruption insurance, even as similar, larger lawsuits continue around the country." - Farley Elliott
American comfort classics with a Southern twist in a renovated firehouse.