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Tail o' The Cock, Los Angeles 1950sThe Tail o the Cock was one of the first upscale restaurants in Californias San Fernando Valley and featured in director Paul Thomas Andersons film Licorice Pizza, about growing up in the area in the Seventies. I loved the whole vibe of the Tail o the Cock, Anderson told the LA Times in 2021 about the restaurant on Ventura Boulevard near Coldwater Canyon. It was my version of Hollywood royalty. But that royalty was not the Clark Gables and Spencer

In the following decades this little food stand in San Francisco

as it is called

A bohemian space – waitresses wore artists’ smocks and the décor included Chinese lanterns and bouquets of red peppers strung from a labyrinth of pipes – actors

and managed by Barney Josephson

were born here

as this striking menu cover by Senegalese artist Diatta Seck (1953-2015) for Air Afrique proves

including projects for thousands of artists

A byword for luxury and sophistication

’ says the woman who became Palm Springs’ most famous restaurant hostess

and Doctor De Soto

’ she said in her autobiography

Until it closed in 1965

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