This is a quiet Saturday morning and cooled off because of the rain.
From about 4pm on places like this crowd the streets full of folks chain smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. A few are connected to the hundreds of Middle Eastern restaurants that all serve the similar shawarma fare that you can find up and down Westwood Blvd.
There’s a shawarma place on my street, they happen to be Syrian, and I’ve had their salads, dolmas, hummus, etc. several times and it’s always good.