Los Angeles

Sunday at 23000 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu; 310.456.3443; full service starts Monday

This smaller, take-out-encouraged, 6th offspring of the retro-themed Ruby's Diner is celebrating its opening (in a refurbished 40's-era cafe all the way at the pier's end) with an all-day blowout featuring music from a live surf rock band and gratis grub like burgers, fries, and samples of their shakes, which include caramel, peanut butter, and "Banana Cream Dream", which you've mostly grown out of.

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