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East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project

Eat Shop Play business owners come from every corner of Los Angeles. Here’s what they have to say.
Farm Table Coffee House and Los Hermanos owner smiling in front of a brick wall.

Los Tres Hermanos Bar and Grill

Magdalano Gutierrez named his restaurant after his three sons — Jose, Orlando, and Omar — when he opened it in 1988, and all three grew up chopping onions and waiting tables in his kitchen. Omar, the youngest, now owns two restaurants a few doors apart on Van Nuys Boulevard: Los Tres Hermanos, open since 1997, and Farm Table Coffeehouse next door. Between Sherman Way and Burbank Boulevard, his is the only sit-down restaurant open for dinner, let alone the only one with live music every Friday night. “Northridge has restaurants, Encino has nightlife,” Omar says. “Here in Van Nuys, we’re stuck in the middle.

Owner of Country General Store wearing a cowboy hat, denim, amongst other western treasures.

Country General Store

Rick Stanoff was just 18 when his father died, leaving him in charge of a downtown Los Angeles military surplus shop — one he steered, bit by bit, into one of L.A.’s premier western wear destinations. Today, one wall is lined floor to ceiling with Lucchese boots in full-quill ostrich and Cayman crocodile, and the clientele reads like a country music lineup: Shaboozey, Orville Peck, Dwight Yoakam. “I love western values,” Rick says. “When you meet someone, you shake their hand — and that’s your contract.” When Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour hit L.A. last year, he says, the store saw a flood of first-time buyers. “It was phenomenal.”