“Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments.”

—Jim Morrison

Perhaps that ritual ought to be the consumption of a delicious breakfast. And should that be the case, the city’s making a valiant, and I’d say pretty darn successful, attempt at providing spots that offer glorious incarnations of that very meal.

Neither breakfast nor a slew of restaurants (charming, though they may be) can piece together the sundry elements that comprise Los Angeles and the neighborhoods within it. But on a smaller, more personal level, breakfast as ritual could serve as an excuse to unite the people living fragmented lives in a fragmented town by having them get together at the start of the day. (more…)