Pictures: The next dinner in Tesla reshapes the Hollywood horizon

Amid the discounts in government spending at Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, billionaire simultaneously made quiet and mixed progress in a completely different commercial project-Tesla Diner & Drive-in.

The Los Angeles project dates back to 2018, when Musk first hopes on the Internet around a 24 -hour old school restaurant that provides food and provides entertainment options for Tesla drivers who need to charge their electric cars.

Seven years later, the Musk vision of a dual food charging spot. The site, which waves on the horizon above the crowded Hollywood mass, includes the 45 -foot LED screen screens and dozens of V4 SuperCharger, as well as an open surface in the form of an open -air plate sitting under the reliable sunlight in Los Angeles.

As a former interior correspondent for business and resident of West Hollywood, I spent on Friday morning this month an investigation into the surprising quiet construction site before the opening of Diner is still.

This is what I saw.

The site occupies a full street corner in a crowded section of Santa Monica Street.

Tesla Diner & Drive-in sits on the northern side of the famous Santa Monica Street in La, which extends from the intersection of sunset to the Pacific Ocean. The plot extends back to NOrange Drive.

The site is located near two of the most crowded intersections in Hollywood, and a few buildings of the 101st highway, where hundreds of thousands of drivers enter and leave traffic every day. Play the location of access to the highway and rapid access to dinner.

Before turning into the reactionary Musk Restaurant, the land was home to Shakey.

In August 2023, the Ministry of Buildings and Safety approved Los Angeles Province over Tesla Diner plans. The construction has moved quickly in the year and a half since then. It seems almost ended.

Tesla and the engineering and architecture company that works in the project, STANTEC, did not respond to BI requests for information about the date of completion or opening of the restaurant.

I was surprised by the calmness of the construction site on Friday morning.

I spent about twenty minutes to see the evening of dinner street, as I wander around the interconnected fence that surrounds the entire vitality. The graffiti fence was covered with a full cloth, and it appears that Loos is supposed to keep the gay of intrusion.

However, the broken pieces of the fabric cover allowed me to take a peek behind the curtain, as I noticed four construction workers grinding. Two men were talking to each other on the site throughout my 20 -minute visit, while two others worked independently in many projects around the building.

I saw one private security guard standing outside the site.

The security guard, who was wearing a “global allied security” jacket, was standing on N Orange Drive, and was supposed to monitor the side entrance to the site.

The gentle young man told me that he “has no idea” when he was supposed to open dinner. It deserves a shot!

Unfabstum focal points on the site are tall video screens.

In x mail Last month, the Tesla Sawyer Merritt investor described the giant structures as LED 45 feet. Musk responded to the post, “will be great.”

I did not attend the measurement of my tape to confirm their measurements, but I can emphasize that it waves on the horizon in every sense of the word.

A construction permit 2022 for a dinner said that the screens will show half-hour films-enough time for the Tesla driver to ship, New York Times I mentioned earlier this year.

Recently, Musk said that the screens will display old movie clips, which contributes to the reactionary atmosphere of the site.

In 2023, it was published on X that the atmosphere of the space would be “grease meets Jetsons with super shipping.”

The screens sit at the Qatari ends of the half -acre complex, both of which are wrapped abroad.

I was able to see the back of one of the screens of a few blocks.

I walked a mile from West Hollywood for my presence to Tesla Diner & Drive-in. While I was approaching the site from a few West blocks, I first monitored the back of one of the giant video screens.

I did not know what the big temple in the sky was on my initial approaches, but I took this picture in my career, after I watched the giant screens closely.

Here is a view of one of the screens directly.

This particular screen is located on the side of the dinner building. The other screen of the lens is located, again and to the right.

The same building is a silver structure that resembles a plate with engineering prosperity.

Some luxury shipping stations were ready to go.

During my visit to the site, I saw dozens of glossy and white charging stations, which carry the Tesla brand, which began to be installed in the parking parking.

In the end, the site will be home to more than 75 Supercharger.

Although Tesla takes visits related to musk in recent weeks, Los Angeles is still a friend of EV.

Musk’s EV felt his invasion of politics, as Tesla sales fell 13 % in the first three months of 2025 – The worst quarter of the company since the first three months of 2022. The shares decreased more than 36 % in 2025.

Meanwhile, Tesla vehicles, my pilgrims, and charging stations throughout the country were sabotage sites Protests Since Trump was opened.

When dinner opens, it will be difficult to miss – whether by drivers looking for a charge or the demonstrators who made the sites of Tesla the zero land to express their discontent with the growing effect of Elon Musk.