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The Egg and Eye restaurant, circa 1970
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I loved this restaurant! When I came to California in 1974 I lived in Marina del Rey and would drive to The Egg and I at least once a month, sometimes twice. Aside from the delicious omelets my favorite was Fruit Soup. I’d never seen it on a menu before or since, but it became a staple of mine and an entertaining favorite. I miss this place.
They used to have little concerts and unusual film showings in a little side room that fit maybe 40 people…I saw a harpsichord performance and a Mick Jagger documentary about the monks of Tibet.
I’ve lived on the Miracle Mile for 54 years, and I’m ashamed to say that I never visited the “Egg and The Eye” – I always thought it was just a museum,
never realizing it was also a restaurant ! Sometimes you don’t miss something until it’s gone. Shame, shame on me !
I am black, I was 18 years old in 1969, I worked at IBM next door to the coconut grove, I was born in Charleston, S.C…. I was living in my first apt. in Compton Ca. I met and fell in love with a white lady who was a few years older than myself. Ms. Robinnett lived two blocks away the Egg and the Eye. She took me there and that was the first time I had ever been in a nice restaurant. We went to eat every Saturday and Sunday for years. If anyone have a copy of that I would love to have a copy. geraldcarrington@yahoo.com I am also on facebook… thank you.
I would like a copy of The Egg and the Eye menu… Please. Thank you Mr. Charles I am sorry I am just getting back..
. I forgot about the menu… I didn’t think anyone would have
Please resent that menu again… I thank you. By the way I found the lady I was dating
She lives in Eugene Or. My son just happen to go to that school seven years ago.
My Mom (now 69) always tells me about her time spent working at The Egg and Eye. Apparently Dean Martin was a regular, and would regularly flirt with her over an “Oscar” omelette.
I would love to have a copy of the menu, if any of you have access to one, it’d make a wonderful Christmas gift. Also, if anybody knows where I can find the old Egg and Eye matchbooks, I’d be eternally in your debt.
Hello, hope you are doing well! Any chance I can get a copy of the menu?
My name is Jaime Casillas, I love The egg and the eye Craft and Folk Art Museum. I was 12 years old, My dad use to work there as a carpenter back in the 1980’s. My dad’s name is Jorge Casillas and His boss name is Patrick, I don’t remember His last name but my dad’s job was to remodel the Museum for new events for the mask festival. I love… those omelettes they had different types and they were very good, Also the mask events festival was so…nice. My dad use to take me to help out for the events. I’m 49 years old now and I sure… remember those good old times.
Hi Jaime! Patrick DuBray was my brother. He died of AIDS in 1992 in Santa Barbara. Found this blog today after I uncovered an old matchbox from The Egg and the Eye in my things and decided to search the Internet for some more history about the restaurant. I spent a lot of my youth in So. California visiting my brother with my parents and also visited the restaurant. Feel free to write back and, if Jorge is around, tell him hello from me. Best regards. Dan
I worked at the Egg and Eye restaurant 1983-1985 when Ian Barrington owned the restaurant and Patrick owned or ran or had run the Craft and Folk Art museum downstairs. The museum and restaurant were separate entities by that time. Edith was the head of the museum’s board. I recall Patrick as a handsome, elegant friendly gentleman. Ian Barrington was a wonderful boss and even more wonderful human being. Loved him, loved him, loved him. I wish I knew what ultimately happened to Ian. I left the Egg and Eye when I had my first child in 1985 and not too long after that I heard the restaurant closed.
Hi Dan! I’m sorry to hear about your brother pass way. I knew Patrick DuBray, He came to my sister’s wedding in 1987 in Long Beach, California that was the last time I saw him, and I was about 18 years old. My dad’s birthday was on April 29, 2020 He just turn 78 years old. The odd thing about this, Is my dad and I talk about your brother and He wonder what happen to your brother Patrick DuBray and then you posted this on April 29, 2020 on my dad’s birthday. They were good old friends, my dad and I did some work at your brother’s house, and I was 10 years old. He had a very nice house. Thank you for posting this here. Now I can tell my dad he can stop searching, He will always ask his old friends about Patrick. Dan from my dad and I we would like to say RIP Patrick DuBray We love you and you always be remember. Thanks’ again Dan best wishes and you take care.
My grandfather was a cook there. His name is Francisco. He would tell me stories about your brother when I was little.
I worked at the restaurant in the mid eighties when Ian Barrington owned it. The Craft and Folk Art Museum was downstairs. Ian was the greatest guy, such a fun job. We served mainly omelets (and the best curried chicken salad) and were packed every lunch and all weekend.
Back in the very early 1970’s my girlfriends mother IDA Rose took Lisa and me there.
I had an Indonesian Egg Omelet (very crunchy peanut butter in plain English) Wonderful ambiance and very good coffee and breads with the butter melted and cooled into small artsy cups. Have a lot of good memories from there.
I so loved this place. I was editing the LA Free Press in the late ’60s and early ’70s not too far away, and my girlfriend at the time was working in the Free Press bookstore on Fairfax. We used to go to the LA County Museum of Art across the street on weekend mornings, then dodge traffic on Wilshire to have a leisurely breakfast at the Egg and Eye. The food was great and made with love and there was always something to catch the eye. I miss the place, the times and my girlfriend! What a time to be young and alive.
Did anyone recall when the “new Santa Monica Mall opened” in the late 1970s? The Egg and Eye had a masquerade party the evening before the next day when the Mall was opened. My band, Brazz Jazz, a group mostly composed of Brazilian musicians and singers, was hired for this event. As I recall some of the party goers were celebrating while dancing in a shallow pool in front of where our band was set up. We were playing mostly samba and the festivite “Carnival” music Brazil is famous around the world. If you attended the event, have any photos to share, I would appreciate sending them to my email address at: fredbblock@gmail.com. Thank you.
Like Julia Tyson, I worked for Ian at The Egg & The Eye and became a good friend. He was fun, kind, extremely creative and down to earth. After the close of the restaurant Ian moved to Arizona joked that he became “the dude rancher by the water falls” Sadly Ian passed ways in the in the 90th and he is greatly missed. Does anyone have a copy of the menu? Sadly, I misplaced mine…
Fun fact: Did you know that the only customer to ever ordered the Peanut Butter Omelette was Jimmy Stewart?
I graduated Granada Hills High School 1970, as an Art Major Wore a Peace symbol on top of my cap at graduation ceremony. My Senior Art class had an exhibit at the Gallery Downstairs. Attending w my father we made our way upstairs for a choice of omelets, 100 different ones, he ordered the “peanut butter” and loved it! The exhibit was mainly pottery pieces. But notably was an Artist pieces of framed *Suet Art* from smoke quite impressive and beautiful The Egg and the Eye was fairly new at that time 1969-70 Very unique concept in those days Had a wonderful time..
I am lucky enough to own a gorgeous, well-seasoned carbon steel crepe pan from the restaurant! Every time I make crepes — perfect ones — I think of my visits to the restaurant preceding my visits to LACMA.
Wow. I don’t know what led me to Google this today. My wife and I ate at the Egg and the Eye regularly when I was in my residency at Cedars, 1978-1981. I would love a copy of the menu. My email address is joseph.siemienczuk@gmail.com if anyone has one. Thank you! Great memories.
Connie, well, here you go , your dad and Jimmy Stuart have something in common. The peanut butter omelet,
Anyone find a copy of the menu? You’d think it would be archived at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Seriously!
My mother met my step dad there it was 1978 Louis ledesma was his name I have a picture of me with my daughter in front of the restaurant 1979 I ordered a omelette with crab it was so good .janineford58@gmail.com
I use to drive weekly from San Bernardino in the. 70’s . to buy art. I have a Scarab and a Java hand puppet. I loved the place and ate upstairs in the restaurant. It must be closed now. It was an iconic place. I would love a. Copy of the menu.
This was an amazing experience. My first time there was 1966, my Dad worked in the Wilshire area. Went for lunch on Saturday’s I was my Dad’s weekend helper. Nice music plants galore. Kind of a upscaled Beatnik vibe (boutique). Years later took my husband there. Bought several plants from there.
Miracle Mile Residential Association 
I loved this restaurant! When I came to California in 1974 I lived in Marina del Rey and would drive to The Egg and I at least once a month, sometimes twice. Aside from the delicious omelets my favorite was Fruit Soup. I’d never seen it on a menu before or since, but it became a staple of mine and an entertaining favorite. I miss this place.
My Dad was the maitre d at The Egg and Eye in Los Angeles.
They used to have little concerts and unusual film showings in a little side room that fit maybe 40 people…I saw a harpsichord performance and a Mick Jagger documentary about the monks of Tibet.
I’ve lived on the Miracle Mile for 54 years, and I’m ashamed to say that I never visited the “Egg and The Eye” – I always thought it was just a museum,
never realizing it was also a restaurant ! Sometimes you don’t miss something until it’s gone. Shame, shame on me !
Yankee Dog
I am black, I was 18 years old in 1969, I worked at IBM next door to the coconut grove, I was born in Charleston, S.C…. I was living in my first apt. in Compton Ca. I met and fell in love with a white lady who was a few years older than myself. Ms. Robinnett lived two blocks away the Egg and the Eye. She took me there and that was the first time I had ever been in a nice restaurant. We went to eat every Saturday and Sunday for years. If anyone have a copy of that I would love to have a copy. geraldcarrington@yahoo.com I am also on facebook… thank you.
I have one for you! I’ve emailed you.
I would like a copy of The Egg and the Eye menu… Please. Thank you Mr. Charles I am sorry I am just getting back..
. I forgot about the menu… I didn’t think anyone would have
Please resent that menu again… I thank you. By the way I found the lady I was dating
She lives in Eugene Or. My son just happen to go to that school seven years ago.
My Mom (now 69) always tells me about her time spent working at The Egg and Eye. Apparently Dean Martin was a regular, and would regularly flirt with her over an “Oscar” omelette.
I would love to have a copy of the menu, if any of you have access to one, it’d make a wonderful Christmas gift. Also, if anybody knows where I can find the old Egg and Eye matchbooks, I’d be eternally in your debt.
Hello, hope you are doing well! Any chance I can get a copy of the menu?
I forgot to say Menu…
My name is Jaime Casillas, I love The egg and the eye Craft and Folk Art Museum. I was 12 years old, My dad use to work there as a carpenter back in the 1980’s. My dad’s name is Jorge Casillas and His boss name is Patrick, I don’t remember His last name but my dad’s job was to remodel the Museum for new events for the mask festival. I love… those omelettes they had different types and they were very good, Also the mask events festival was so…nice. My dad use to take me to help out for the events. I’m 49 years old now and I sure… remember those good old times.
Hi Jaime! Patrick DuBray was my brother. He died of AIDS in 1992 in Santa Barbara. Found this blog today after I uncovered an old matchbox from The Egg and the Eye in my things and decided to search the Internet for some more history about the restaurant. I spent a lot of my youth in So. California visiting my brother with my parents and also visited the restaurant. Feel free to write back and, if Jorge is around, tell him hello from me. Best regards. Dan
I worked at the Egg and Eye restaurant 1983-1985 when Ian Barrington owned the restaurant and Patrick owned or ran or had run the Craft and Folk Art museum downstairs. The museum and restaurant were separate entities by that time. Edith was the head of the museum’s board. I recall Patrick as a handsome, elegant friendly gentleman. Ian Barrington was a wonderful boss and even more wonderful human being. Loved him, loved him, loved him. I wish I knew what ultimately happened to Ian. I left the Egg and Eye when I had my first child in 1985 and not too long after that I heard the restaurant closed.
Hi Dan! I’m sorry to hear about your brother pass way. I knew Patrick DuBray, He came to my sister’s wedding in 1987 in Long Beach, California that was the last time I saw him, and I was about 18 years old. My dad’s birthday was on April 29, 2020 He just turn 78 years old. The odd thing about this, Is my dad and I talk about your brother and He wonder what happen to your brother Patrick DuBray and then you posted this on April 29, 2020 on my dad’s birthday. They were good old friends, my dad and I did some work at your brother’s house, and I was 10 years old. He had a very nice house. Thank you for posting this here. Now I can tell my dad he can stop searching, He will always ask his old friends about Patrick. Dan from my dad and I we would like to say RIP Patrick DuBray We love you and you always be remember. Thanks’ again Dan best wishes and you take care.
My grandfather was a cook there. His name is Francisco. He would tell me stories about your brother when I was little.
I worked at the restaurant in the mid eighties when Ian Barrington owned it. The Craft and Folk Art Museum was downstairs. Ian was the greatest guy, such a fun job. We served mainly omelets (and the best curried chicken salad) and were packed every lunch and all weekend.
Back in the very early 1970’s my girlfriends mother IDA Rose took Lisa and me there.
I had an Indonesian Egg Omelet (very crunchy peanut butter in plain English) Wonderful ambiance and very good coffee and breads with the butter melted and cooled into small artsy cups. Have a lot of good memories from there.
I so loved this place. I was editing the LA Free Press in the late ’60s and early ’70s not too far away, and my girlfriend at the time was working in the Free Press bookstore on Fairfax. We used to go to the LA County Museum of Art across the street on weekend mornings, then dodge traffic on Wilshire to have a leisurely breakfast at the Egg and Eye. The food was great and made with love and there was always something to catch the eye. I miss the place, the times and my girlfriend! What a time to be young and alive.
Did anyone recall when the “new Santa Monica Mall opened” in the late 1970s? The Egg and Eye had a masquerade party the evening before the next day when the Mall was opened. My band, Brazz Jazz, a group mostly composed of Brazilian musicians and singers, was hired for this event. As I recall some of the party goers were celebrating while dancing in a shallow pool in front of where our band was set up. We were playing mostly samba and the festivite “Carnival” music Brazil is famous around the world. If you attended the event, have any photos to share, I would appreciate sending them to my email address at: fredbblock@gmail.com. Thank you.
Like Julia Tyson, I worked for Ian at The Egg & The Eye and became a good friend. He was fun, kind, extremely creative and down to earth. After the close of the restaurant Ian moved to Arizona joked that he became “the dude rancher by the water falls” Sadly Ian passed ways in the in the 90th and he is greatly missed. Does anyone have a copy of the menu? Sadly, I misplaced mine…
Fun fact: Did you know that the only customer to ever ordered the Peanut Butter Omelette was Jimmy Stewart?
I graduated Granada Hills High School 1970, as an Art Major Wore a Peace symbol on top of my cap at graduation ceremony. My Senior Art class had an exhibit at the Gallery Downstairs. Attending w my father we made our way upstairs for a choice of omelets, 100 different ones, he ordered the “peanut butter” and loved it! The exhibit was mainly pottery pieces. But notably was an Artist pieces of framed *Suet Art* from smoke quite impressive and beautiful The Egg and the Eye was fairly new at that time 1969-70 Very unique concept in those days Had a wonderful time..
I am lucky enough to own a gorgeous, well-seasoned carbon steel crepe pan from the restaurant! Every time I make crepes — perfect ones — I think of my visits to the restaurant preceding my visits to LACMA.
Wow. I don’t know what led me to Google this today. My wife and I ate at the Egg and the Eye regularly when I was in my residency at Cedars, 1978-1981. I would love a copy of the menu. My email address is joseph.siemienczuk@gmail.com if anyone has one. Thank you! Great memories.
Connie, well, here you go , your dad and Jimmy Stuart have something in common. The peanut butter omelet,
Anyone find a copy of the menu? You’d think it would be archived at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Seriously!
My mother met my step dad there it was 1978 Louis ledesma was his name I have a picture of me with my daughter in front of the restaurant 1979 I ordered a omelette with crab it was so good .janineford58@gmail.com
I use to drive weekly from San Bernardino in the. 70’s . to buy art. I have a Scarab and a Java hand puppet. I loved the place and ate upstairs in the restaurant. It must be closed now. It was an iconic place. I would love a. Copy of the menu.
This was an amazing experience. My first time there was 1966, my Dad worked in the Wilshire area. Went for lunch on Saturday’s I was my Dad’s weekend helper. Nice music plants galore. Kind of a upscaled Beatnik vibe (boutique). Years later took my husband there. Bought several plants from there.