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...campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive jumping among the surfer and industry-big-shot set. The real attraction is 72-year-old proprietor Bill Fischler, who lords over his young cook Alfredo and his gorgeous Valkyrian waitress Veronica while he greets and gooses the customers. Part W.C. Fields, part Walter Matthau (plus a bit of the Three Stooges' Curly Howard tossed in), Fischler is a wisecracking curmudgeon with style. And with customers like Fischler's, style counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Hash Slinger to the Stars | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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