Quality Cafe (diner)

Quality Cafe
Location	1236 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Type	Diner, film set
Construction
Closed	2006 as a diner
Demolished	2014 as a diner

The Quality Cafe (also known as Quality Diner) is a now-defunct diner at 1236 West 7th Street in Los Angeles, California. The restaurant ceased to function as a diner in late 2006 but has appeared as a location featured in a number of Hollywood films, including Million Dollar Baby, Training Day, Old School, Se7en, Ghost World, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Stepfather, What's Love Got to Do with It, Sex and Death 101, and Catch Me If You Can. It was also featured in Season 1 of the 2007 television series Mad Men, in the episode "5G".[1] It was completely refurbished in 2014 and transformed into a bar of the Teragram Ballroom, a music theatre.

Film appearances

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), the life of Ike and Tina Turner, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett
Se7en (1995), starring Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), starring Nicolas Cage and Grace Zabriskie
Coyote Ugly (2000), starring Piper Perabo and Tyra Banks. Café scène in Danbala diner, with dancing scène of Tyra Banks. Partialy refurbished to look like a diner in China Town, New York.
Training Day (2001), starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke
Ghost World (2001), starring Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch
Catch Me If You Can (2002), starring Tom Hanks
Old School (2003), starring Luke Wilson and Ellen Pompeo
Million Dollar Baby (2004), starring Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank
Mr and Mrs Smith (2005), starring Brad Pitt and Vince Vaughn
Sex and Death 101 (2007), starring Winona Ryder and Simon Baker
The Heartbreak Kid (2007), starring Ben Stiller and Malin Akerman
The Midnight Meat Train (2008), starring Leslie Bibb and Bradley Cooper
The Stepfather (2009), starring Dylan Walsh and Penn Badgley
500 Days of Summer (2009), starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Roommate (2011), starring Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly
Honey 2 (2011), dance movie
The exterior also appeared in Atlas Shrugged (2010) and in You Got Served (2004)[2]

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Stories: The Candlestick, The Diner (1997)
Numb3rs, Episode: Blowback (2008)
Castle Episodes: Sucker Punch (2010) and Watershed (2013)
CSI: New York Episode: Outside Man (2004)
Mad Men Several episodes, including: 5G, Ladies Room, To Have and to Hold, Christmas Waltz

Coca-Cola commercial Share the Magic (2009) by Mike L Murphy
Pepsi Max commercial 2pointZero (2010), a remake of the famous cola war commercial of 1995
Joe's Diner, about 20 promos for the NFL Network matches during the season 2006-2007 and a TV commercial "Cable Guy"
Monk and Psych promo Dead Zone Cafe
Chevrolet Cobalt commercial "Ball" (2005)
G.Love & The Special Sauce, music video “cold beverages” 1994

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