Opened in 1973 by Greek immigrants Chris and Soula Caplaneris on the former site of Spyros' Coffee Shop, Old Townhouse Restaurant at 4941 Newport Ave is now run by their son Ted as a women-owned breakfast-and-lunch counter. The diner-format menu — chicken-fried steak, machaca breakfast, soy chorizo burrito, biscuits and gravy, stuffed French toast — anchors the Newport Avenue morning trade alongside the cake-donut and apple-fritter counter at Christy's Donuts. Bottomless drip coffee, Mexican breakfast plates, and a chicken-and-waffles special reflect five decades of menu evolution on the same block, with veteran regulars and Greek pancakes still on offer. The drip-coffee-with-bottomless-refills format defines the diner-coffee tradition on this corner, distinct from the craft pour-over programs running up Voltaire at OB Beans Coffee Roasters, and feeds a different breakfast-coffee customer entirely. The full lunch menu — cold sandwiches, hot sandwiches, soups, salads, three-course specials — extends the morning operation through early afternoon, handling Wednesday OB Farmers Market overflow and the weekend brunch lines that fill the booths to the door.