I LOVE the Fourth of July.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m not particularly patriotic and the color combination of red, white and blue definitely doesn’t appeal to my aesthetic sensibility.  But, I love food and fireworks.  And apparently, so do Marty and Sandy Davidson.   That’s why they opened Marty D’s, where on a precious little patch of South Beverly Drive, it’s Fourth of July all year round. 

You walk in and you’re vaulted into some alternate Bye Bye Birdie universe with sparkling white countertops and vinyl booths and kids sipping milkshakes and root beer floats and the biggest hand dipped ice-cream sundaes you’ve ever seen.  And you almost expect the Beverly High kids in the corner to turn into Ann-Margaret pin-up dolls and start singing “The Telephone Hour”. 

There are only a few things on the dinner menu, but I promise you, they’re all you need.  I ate Sandy’s Dog (this totally delicious sausage with spicy peppers) and a fizzy root beer float and the Coney Island Crispy Fries, which is obviously MY favorite thing on the menu.  And I’m told I have to go back for Marty’s hot dog and the knish.  Good thing they’re open ‘til 10.

Marty D’s
230 South Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310-273-7771
11am-10pm, everyday

 Maia Harari is a writer and choreographer. Her most recent credits include It's All in Your Head, 2003 and Danse Macabre, 2000, and she is currently working on Confetti, an episodic internet series chronicling the lives of twenty-somethings running wild in LA. She works at Spyglass Entertainment and lives in Los Angeles.

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