Musso & Frank Grill

**Passage cue:** Musso & Frank says Raymond Chandler wrote several chapters of *The Big Sleep* in its Back Room, and the restaurant states that Chandler mentioned it in the novel. ([mussoandfrank.com](https://mussoandfrank.com/about/history/?utm_source=openai)) **Why it matters:** Chandler's noir depends on Los Angeles feeling mapped, not invented from nowhere. A real Hollywood dining room gives the fiction local grain: old polish, bohemian crosscurrents, and a sense that glamour and corruption sit at neighboring tables. That is an inference grounded in Chandler's documented association with the restaurant and the site's literary role in Hollywood. ([mussoandfrank.com](https://mussoandfrank.com/about/history/?utm_source=openai))

6667 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028, USA ([mussoandfrank.com](https://mussoandfrank.com/about/contact/?utm_source=openai))