The 101 Coffee Shop lives inside the Best Western Plus Hollywood Hills Hotel, right by a 101 freeway onramp. In its previous incarnation as the Hollywood Hills Coffee Shop, the restaurant appeared in a famous scene from Swingers, when Vince Vaughn schooled Jon Favreau on “beautiful babies.” Chef Brandon Boudet and business partner Warner Ebbink took over the diner in 2001, straddling the line between old school and new school. The look is decidedly old fashioned, but the born-on date and menu are modern. Open till 3 a.m. daily, the Googie-style restaurant features faux wood counters, tan booths, stone walls, and drop-down globe lanterns. Popular menu items include buttermilk pancakes, burgers and meatloaf. Boudet comes from New Orleans, so you’ll find po’ boys. This is California, so you’ll also find blackened tofu and fried carrot salad with burrata, baby kale, and avocado vinaigrette.

Handmade dumplings are a real treat at any time of the day, but at 12:30 in the morning on any day of the week, they are worth their weight in gold. This San Gabriel Valley hole-in-the-wall restaurant specializes in handmade dumplings that boast some pretty attractive fillings - pumpkin shrimp and pork dumplings, juicy lamb dumplings, minced fish dumplings, and of course veggie dumplings with plenty of greens. All of which you can opt to have just freshly steamed (soft, tender) or pan-fried (crispy, chewy). As if these interesting filling variations weren’t enough, there are hand-torn noodle soups, chilled seaweed salads and their ever-popular Beef Roll, a fried pancake rolled up like a burrito and filled with beef bits. No matter what you get, just make sure to smear it all with their addictive green onion-cilantro spicy pickled relish, available on each table. 

Few dishes have the power to satisfy your hunger like a steaming bowl of Korean spicy tofu stew. BCD Tofu will be there for you when every other place is closed, since it’s open 24 hours a day, everyday. It’s located in the heart of Koreatown and warrants a drive from any part of town to enjoy their specialty soup. You can customize your tofu soup with beef, veggies, pork, dumplings and seafood, but the best part of the meal is the perfectly al dente cooked rice that accompanies it. The rice is cooked in a stone pot until a crust forms, and it is amazing. To this superb set-up, add their lightly-fermented spicy kimchi and small fried fish that automatically comes with anything you order, and you have the best late night – or early morning – meal in Los Angeles.

The late night munchies are often of the sweet kind, and there is no better way to satisfy that pestering sweet tooth than by going to Bhan Kanom Thai in Hollywood. In a nutshell, it's a Thai dessert shop that's open until midnight every day. Naturally, their specialty is mango with sticky rice, with its custardy ripe mango and salty coconut sauce to pour all over the barely sweet sticky rice - it's undeniably the best version in the city. Other specialties include sweet and salty grilled coconut rice cakes, Thai shaved ice desserts with plenty of unique toppings like candied basil seeds and colorful jellies, Thai ice cream (green tea!), chilled Thai custards, sticky rice logs stuffed with bananas grilled in banana leaves, griddled shredded taro cakes and much more. Their freshly-baked pillowy pandan buns stuffed with house-made coconut milk pandan cream are just about the best thing on the planet.

Open 24 hours a day, this classic Jewish delicatessen on Fairfax is an L.A. landmark. The colossal menu at Canter's Deli is bound to have at least a few things on it for everyone. There are burgers, soups, fish appetizers, deli case favorites, breakfast items, many different styles of sandwiches, dinner plates, a kids’ menu, and much, much more. However, if you’re an omnivore and want to order the go-to, your best bet is to go with the deli’s signature pastrami sandwich.

Pizza is one of those foods that somehow always tastes better late at night, especially Garage Pizza. Their Silver Lake and Downtown boast an impressive 4 a.m. closing time every day of the year (yes, they also deliver until 4 a.m. too). Their pizza pie is of the standard issue, New York-style thin crust variety. If you go by yourself, keep it simple and stick to ordering a slice of their cheese or the Hot N Sweet Pepperoni with jalapeño and pineapple. If you’re with someone or a couple of friends, there is no excuse for not ordering an entire pie. The leftovers are worth it. An honorable mention goes out to their calzones that are baked to order and finished with an enticing garlic olive oil glaze. Vegans take note, there is vegan cheese available.

A King Taco burrito de carne asada with extra salsa roja – consumed during the wee hours of the morning on a weekend – has become a tradition for many Eastside partiers. Their tacos, burritos, sopes, quesadillas, tamales and nachos are consistently tasty and affordable. Judging by the dozens of people that line up every single night, consistently tasty and affordable is something that a lot of people really appreciate in this part of town. The real star of this establishment are the salsas. Their red salsa is smoky and gorgeously thick, while their salsa verde is equally thick but tart, spicy and really refreshing instead. You could put these same salsas on a frozen burrito and make it heavenly if you wanted to. Their horchatas are cinnamon-intensive and perfect for washing away that post-taco onion breath.

When in Venice and the late night munchies strike, look for the Spanish-style house completely wrapped with colorful Christmas tree lights year round and the bold font sporting “La Cabaña.” That is, unless a giant quesadilla stuffed with spinach and shrimp paired with an icy, strong margarita on a candlelit table doesn’t sound like a good time to you. If you’re looking for a more restorative dish, you can’t go wrong with a big bowl filled with their homey Sopa de Albondigas, chock full of tender Mexican-style meatballs and plenty of comforting vegetables. For dessert (because, obviously, calories don’t count at that time of night) their extra rich “Chocolate Lovin’ Spoon Cake” filled with chocolate pudding will probably hold you over until dinner the next day. Or, you can just ask the bartender to recommend a reposado tequila to sip on - their tequila list has been comprehensive since way before it was cool to have a comprehensive tequila list.

There are many different ways to soak up alcohol after a long night of drinking, but none will ever be as glorious as a juicy burger with a proper set of fries - very much like the ones offered at Stout Burgers & Beers. Their Goombah Burger is made with their house-blended ground beef, parmigiano flakes, smoked mozzarella, crispy prosciutto and lemon basil aioli, with an order of their crispy sweet potato fries, of course. For vegetarians, Stout takes their veggie burgers just as seriously, offering a a quinoa and bean based patty with accoutrements that are just as interesting (chutney mayonnaise, roasted tomato anyone?). And at 3:30 a.m., these burgers - which are ideally cooked medium rare - seem almost too dreamy to be true. For non-carnivores, there are kale and quinoa salads.

When all other noodle and sushi shops in Little Tokyo have closed up shop, Suehiro Cafe will be open for you. Suehiro is a humble Japanese coffee shop that you’ve probably never noticed as you waited in line for other, much more popular ramen and udon shops next door. They offer a little bit of everything when it comes to Japanese fare, and it really depends on what you’re in the mood for. Their house special beef udon noodle soup is not too salty and very substantial; their combination plates with gyoza (veggie or pork), moist pork katsu or broiled mackerel, rice and sesame spinach is very homey and very basic. It’s rustic, uncomplicated ambiance is all you want after a night of partying or taking care of business. And yes, they also serve decent sushi and sashimi if craving that after midnight.

This 24/7 restaurant resides in a highly competitive Koreatown strip mall. Sun Nong Dan features Hangul lettering on the walls and specializes in beef stews and soups. Your best bet might be their Braised Oxtail & Short Rib stew, the largest of which could feed a football team and combines two cuts of beef that are tender on the bone. The intoxicating braising liquid works its magic in a massive pot, contributing a judicious amount of spice to the tender meat, along with potatoes, onions, scallions, carrots, chewy rice cakes called dduk, and more. The scalding metal pot sears the chunks of meat and vegetables that settle at the base, to magical effect.

How much better can this taco truck be in a city where dozens and dozens of taco trucks roam the streets every night? You can go ahead and ask the twenty or so people that line up every weekend through the early morning. Every single person is there to only eat one thing: tacos al pastor. Unlike many other taco trucks that sear their al pastor on the plancha, Tacos Leo does al pastor right: the marinated pork is shaved right off the trompo right onto your griddled tortilla, the way it’s supposed to be done, like in Mexico. Their salsa bar is among the best in town as well, always chilled and restocked with both green salsa, red salsa and even a creamy guacamole. And somehow, these legit tacos are still just $1 a pop.