A West Hollywood resident noticed the banner first and got word to WEHOonline. It went up sometime recently on the McDonald’s at 1133 N. La Brea Ave. — navy blue, gold arches, four words in large type: Open 24 Hours. Dine-in, drive-thru, pickup. The lobby’s back now too.
That’s the part that’s new – sorta. The drive-through at this location has been running all night since 1999 and the restaurant itself opened on that block in 1971, but the dining room had been closing at 2 a.m. for the past year and a half. The West Hollywood Business License Commission changed that at their March 3rd meeting, voting unanimously to extend interior hours from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. daily. Chair Anthony Vulin presided. Vice Chair Kevin A. Barry and Commissioners Joshua Christian, Jordan Cockeram, Elyse D. Eisenberg and Colin Labran-Boyd all voted aye.
The backstory
The restaurant’s current owner, Patricia Yoon, took over in October 2024 but didn’t know the extended hours permit had lapsed and had to apply for a new one from the commission back in May 2025. Problem was, the lobby still had to shutdown between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. For delivery drivers picking up app-based orders in the middle of the night, that meant one option: sit in the drive-through lane and wait.
“Keeping the lobby open overnight will reduce congestion in the drive-through,” Yoon told the commission. “Providing an indoor pickup option will help improve traffic flow and reduce cars circulating through the drive-through late at night.” It also meant late night partiers had no place to hang or maybe even sober up. O longtime tradition for a lot of younger people.
The neighbor who wrote in
A resident didn’t make it to the hearing but he sent a letter. They live right in front of the parking lot, he wrote in, three years of overnight noise had cost them sleep. The promises from the last approval hadn’t been kept — shouting and music at all hours, still happening.
“I am strongly opposed to any more extended hours or days to their business,” they wrote. Nobody showed up in person to protest or lend support.
Neighbors had been vocal at the May 2025 hearing too, with nearby Detroit Street residents describing drug use, abandoned cars and noise at all hours. Di Bona’s letter in March carried the same message.
What the commission thought
Commissioners figured an open lobby would help Di Bona’s problem, not worsen it. Give drivers somewhere to go inside and they clear out faster, staying farther from the residential building than they would idling in the drive-through lane at 3 a.m.
“Give people someplace to go other than the parking lot,” Commissioner Christian said, “and it seems like it’ll make that problem better.”
The West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station said they had seven calls for service at the location between May and December 2025 and told City staff it had no concerns. The commission approved the extended hours without adding conditions beyond what’s already required — a licensed security guard on site from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., no firearms, no tasers.
If you’re craving some Micky D’s at 2 in the morning on the eastside and wanna hang inside now you can.
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Perhaps the Commission should have made the 24 hour permit conditional upon a six month review.