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Pacific Palisades currently has about 27,000 residents. It is an affluent and primarily residential area, with a mixture of large private homes, small (usually older) houses, condominiums, and apartments. It has a small central business district on Sunset Boulevard--consisting of restaurants, stores, banks, and offices--known as the "village." It also includes some large parklands and many hiking trails.

Originally the home of the Inceville movie studio, the first of the many "movie ranches" used for making western films and housing a small number of mostly Latino fishermen, the area was first subdivided in the 1920s and settled by Methodists. One subdivision has streets named for Methodist missionaries. For many decades it had a virtual ban on local drinking, a Chinese restaurant famously holding the only liquor license in town. The Presbyterian Church formerly owned a conference center in Temescal Canyon before it was sold to become part of Topanga State Park. Will Rogers owned a large ranch adjoining the Palisades in Santa Monica Canyon, now also a state park, and helped to attract movie stars to the area. It has been the home to a number of intellectuals, such as Aldous Huxley.

RESTAURANTS

American ~ Californian

Mort's Deli

Deli & Sandwiches ~ $
1035 Swarthmore Avenue @ Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.454.5511

Asian ~ Sushi

Pearl Dragon
Pan-Asian & Sushi ~ $$$
15229 Sunset Blvd., between Monument Street & Swarthmore Avenue, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.459.9790 ~
www.thepearldragon.com

Italian

Lucia's

Italian & Pizza ~ $$

538 Palisades Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

310.573.1411 ~ http://www.pizzettarestaurant.com/lucia

Jacopo's
Italian & Pizza ~ $$
15415 Sunset Blvd. @ Via de la Paz, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.454.8494 ~
www.jacopos.com

Modo Mio Cucina Rustica Italiana
Northern Italian ~ $$$
15200 Sunset Blvd. @ La Cruz Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.459.0979 ~
www.modomiocucinarustica.com

Vittorio
Italian ~ $$
16646 Marquez Avenue @ Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.459.9316

Mexican ~ Latin ~ Spanish

Kay 'n Dave's
Mexican ~ $$
15246 Sunset Blvd. between Monument Street & Swarthmore Avenue, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.459.8118

Seafood ~ Steaks

Gladstone's
Seafood ~ $$$
17300 Pacific Coast Highway @ Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.573.0212 ~
www.gladstones.com

Other ~ Ethnic

A La Tarte Bistrot
French Bistro ~ $$
1037 Swarthmore Avenue between Monument St. & Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310.459.6635