Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) knows how to get around — and we’re not talking about his love life. 

As the owner of multiple Lincolns (two Navigators and one convertible), the hotshot lawyer is always cruising through the streets of Los Angeles in The Lincoln Lawyer, from Mulholland Drive to the Pacific Coast Highway. Whether you’re an Angeleno or from out of town, the legal drama series also serves as a guide to some of the city’s hottest spots (and the not-so-hot courthouse — should you ever find yourself in trouble). Filmed throughout LA, the series highlights some famous destinations as well as many local hubs that are favorites of the cast and crew. 

“Shooting in a great city like New York or London or LA is like shooting in front of the greatest backdrops in the world,” showrunner Ted Humphrey tells Tudum. “LA is such an atmospheric city — there’s a lot more to it than the stereotype of Hollywood and celebrities.” Humphrey says the show channels the noir LA depicted in Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe stories like The Long Goodbye. “LA is this mysterious, brooding entity,” he says. “It’s bright and sunny, but that just serves to accentuate the darkness lurking around every corner. There’s a lot of history here, not all of it nice, that echoes off the streets Mickey drives. And of course, it’s an endlessly diverse place, a remarkable melting pot even in a nation of melting pots.” 

On a more practical note, the show’s location manager, Richard DiPatri, tells Tudum that “LA, while iconic, is very recognizable — for better or for worse. I think the key is to present locations that fit the story and the scripts, but also to stay away from the main tourist attractions. Most of that credit goes to the directors and DPs [directors of photography] that ground our scenes in the reality of LA while still making it recognizable.” 

On a series where the protagonist is known for his cars, the crew also takes to the city’s streets to shoot, which –– unsurprisingly in such a densely populated metropolis –– can get tricky. “Specifically for this show, many of the driving scenes were particularly challenging because of the traffic issues in LA,” explains DiPatri. “Times of day, as well as days of the week, are very restrictive for controlling streets and filming driving scenes.” But that doesn’t stop Mickey from cruising down Sunset in his convertible with the top down — and, yes, that really is Garcia-Rulfo driving.

The series also explores plenty of the city’s great eateries and epic dining debates. “In Season 3 we shot at Cole’s, [and] we shout out some great LA places,” says showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez. “We’re shouting out La Monarca Bakery, which is a really big Mexican bakery in LA. We have the Philippe’s [vs.] Cole’s French dip debate. We also have: Is it Bagel Broker or is it Maury’s that has the better bagel? We go deep.”

Buckle up as we take you on a tour of LA in true Mickey Haller fashion. And yeah, like real Angelenos, Mickey and his crew aren’t just all about eating; they also love to name-drop the hottest restaurants in town. So we made sure to add everything on their daily dining list too. Check it out below! 

Season 4

The Bradbury Building

Lorna (Becki Newton) meets up with Maggie (Neve Campbell) at the Bradbury Building, known for its ornate iron staircases. “This place is beautiful,” Lorna tells Maggie, who admits it’s one of her “secret spots.” Location manager DiPatri adds it’s “definitely iconic LA.”

Hop Woo

It wouldn’t be The Lincoln Lawyer without some amazing eateries! Maggie interrupts the formidable prosecutor Death Row Dana’s (Constance Zimmer) lunch at the beloved Chinese restaurant. The scene was shot on location in Chinatown. 

FBI Field Office

“This was the real FBI field office in Westwood,” DiPatri says of the scene in which Mickey and Cisco (Angus Sampson) drop off a court order. “Unfortunately, you can’t actually shoot in the building or on their property, so we had to shoot this scene from a park that sits behind it, Westwood Park.” 

Cabrillo Way Marina

Cisco heads down to the marina in San Pedro to check out a yacht belonging to Jeanine Ferrigno (Emmanuelle Chriqui).

Osteria Mozza

Mickey has dinner with Legal (Elliott Gould) at Nancy Silverton’s Michelin-starred Italian restaurant. The scene was shot on location, and Silverton even makes a cameo in it, bringing Mickey and Legal something from the mozzarella bar. 

Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant

The show shot on location at the old-school deli, which offers truly enormous pastrami sandwiches. 

Maguire Gardens

Izzy (Jazz Raycole) and Grace (Gigi Zumbado) take a stroll through the park adjoining the Los Angeles Central Library.

Grand Central Market

Cisco and Izzy stake out potential jurors at Grand Central Market. “We had a great experience there,” says DiPatri. “The coffee shop in this scene was Go Get Em Tiger, and they were very easy to work with.” 

Covina Bowl

Cisco follows a potential witness to a hotel in Palm Spring, but the exteriors are actually shot at the old Covina Bowl in Covina, CA. “It’s a historical landmark and a beautiful example of mid-century modern architecture,” says DiPatri. “It’s now part of a housing complex, but we were able to use it as the exterior of our Palm Springs resort hotel.” The interiors and pool scenes for the hotel were shot at the Saguaro Hotel in Palm Springs. 

The Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills 

To serve a witness subpoena, Cisco winds up at a Marriott hotel. Unfortunately, things don’t end well for the witness. “The hotel let us do a high fall from the roof of their building and have a stuntman land on the roof of a car in their valet area,” says DiPatri. “It was a big ordeal and really made that scene something special. A lot of other hotels we looked at didn’t want the image of someone getting thrown out of a window of their hotel.”

The Train Yards Beneath the 1st Street Bridge

Mickey’s meeting with FBI Agent Dawn Ruth (Sasha Alexander) takes place on the Los Angeles River. “This was shot below the 1st Street Bridge at N. Myers Street, near the train tracks,” says DiPatri. “This scene was shot on the first night of the anti-ICE and National Guard protests last summer, and we had helicopters flying or hovering over us for most of the night.” 

Bristol Farms

In the final scenes of Season 4, Mickey makes eye contact with a beautiful woman (Cobie Smulders) in a grocery store. Moments later, she saves him from getting shot. “This was filmed at Bristol Farms in Westchester,” says DiPatri. “They were great to work with. We were very grateful that they let us use their name and signage even though we were doing a shoot-out in their parking lot.” 

Season 3

California Incline

In the episode-opening flashback, we see Mickey 15 years earlier, hitting the waves in Malibu before driving to work in his beat-up Volkswagen Cabriolet. His surfboard juts out of the convertible’s top, and he pulls up the California Incline, the shortcut that connects the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway with Santa Monica. Behind him, the sun-dappled beach stretches into infinity like a postcard.

Beverly Hills Courthouse 

Mickey does a big favor for his daughter by picking up a case for one of her longtime friends. Eddie Rojas (Allyn Moriyon) allegedly carjacked someone in Beverly Hills, which means he’s due for this day in the fancy court building. When he rolls up in his Lincoln to the ornate institution, you can almost hear the Beverly Hills Cop theme song in the background.

Roosevelt Hotel Pool

Cisco pays a visit to Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel, where the poolside is populated by scantily clad men and women who apparently don’t have work on a weekday. The pool’s floor features a work by none other than the leisure-loving artist David Hockney, who, legend has it, painted the mural in 1988.      

Eightfold Coffee

Izzy heads to the Echo Park coffee shop to meet with Tyson, a gossipy blogger she knows from her touring days. He’s got some contacts at the Roosevelt Hotel that could help get intel on their case.

Nobu

Known for its coastal views and sky-high prices, the famous sushi spot is where Glory’s former associate Stacy aka Trina (Alexandra Siegel) goes to town, ordering Wagyu A5 steak and a gargantuan seafood tower.

Cole’s

Andy (Yaya Dacosta) and Mickey share some smoldering sexual tension hotter than the au jus of Cole’s signature dish: the French dip. In the booth soaked in the yolky glow of Edison bulbs, they banter about the sandwich’s lore. Was it invented in 1908 at Cole’s, when the chef dipped the bread in beef drippings for a customer with bad gums, as Andy alleges? Mickey delivers his rebuttal: The sandwich was invented at Philippe’s near Chinatown in 1918, where the chef accidentally dropped the bread into the roasting pan. Which one is true? The jury is out on both.  

LA Convention Center

Lorna heads downtown to the LA Convention Center to take the bar exam alongside an army of nervous law students.

Name-drop: While we never see it, Mickey name-drops one of the city’s hottest Mediterranean restaurants in Hollywood: Saffy’s. The joint owned by local heroes Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis is a reservation not even Mickey would want to miss. (And he tells Andy so!)

Elysian Park

Andy gets a call that her client Deborah Glass (Rebekah Kennedy) has been found dead near a trail in Elysian Park. While overlooking Dodger Stadium and the downtown skyline, Andy is distraught as she talks to the authorities and finds out her client’s abuser (Ian Fisher) was responsible.  

Hall of Justice

Mickey rolls up to the stately, beaux arts Hall of Justice in downtown LA for a meeting at the DA’s office. He sneaks in a visit, and a sneakier kiss, with Andy first.  

Name-drop: To celebrate Lorna taking the bar, Izzy drops a special delivery of breakfast sandwiches from Eggslut, the Grand Central Market stall with perpetual lines. And if that’s not enough, she also gives her a tiger tail from Donut Man in the distant suburb of Glendora. Their specialty is the strawberry doughnut, but even for its second famous pastry, the epic commute certainly shows Izzy’s love.

Pear Blossom Highway

When Cisco hops onto his motorcycle en route to Vegas, he cruises down the lonesome Pear Blossom Highway near Lancaster in northern LA County. Framed by mountains and Joshua trees, the cracked pavement of this stretch is a popular spot for film shoots.

Las Vegas Strip

Cisco cruises down the hill to the city of lights. And no, we’re not talking about Paris. He’s heading to Las Vegas (and past the Paris hotel!) to follow a lead. He blazes down the Vegas Strip, passing the Bellagio fountain and the hot-pink lights of the Flamingo hotel.

Resurrection Church

After Eddie’s tragic death in a car accident returning from the Victorville prison, his funeral is held at the Resurrection Catholic Church in the predominantly Latino Boyle Heights neighborhood. The historic church was built in the 1950s, which served a Mexican American congregation at a time when the neighborhood was shifting from its Italian, Irish, Hungarian, and Polish roots.  

Griffith Park

Even though Hayley (Krista Warner) and Mickey aren’t talking, he still finds a way to check on her. From a mountaintop in Griffith Park, he watches her riding lessons from binoculars. “Right now, this is as close as I can get to her,” he says.

Downtown LA Criminal Courthouse

This episode mostly takes place in and around the criminal court in the heart of downtown LA — and in the stairwell too. Yet there’s a subtle shoutout to a hip LA spot in this episode. We see coffee cups from Go Get Em Tiger on Lorna’s desk — her taste is impeccable as usual.  

Historic Filipinotown

The exterior shots of Izzy’s studio, Lett’s Dance, come from a hip strip mall near downtown in Historic Filipinotown, nearby yoga studio One Down Dog, and the defunct but influential experimental music venue Pehrspace. 

Name-drop: Lorna also brings in a bag of HomeState’s Tex-Mex breakfast burritos, and Mickey reports Legal’s cravings for Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles. Later, Izzy shows up with a big bag of goodness from Din Tai Fung, the renowned Taiwanese chain that sometimes makes you wait a long time for their celestial soup dumplings. (They’re worth it!)

Los Angeles General Medical Center

After Julian gets stabbed in prison, he’s sent to the medical facility near the city’s monolithic art deco hospital in Lincoln Heights. The 1933 building became even more famous by appearing in the opening credits of the soap opera General Hospital. But for Julian’s partner, David Lyons (Wolé Parks), the drama is real. He tries to see Julian, but the hospital staff won’t allow it because they aren’t married.   

Bob’s Big Boy

Burbank’s purveyor of pancake stacks and greasy burgers makes for a good backdrop for a flashback for Neil Bishop’s (Holt McCallany) origin story. He’s talking with his ex-wife about visitation with his son. Just as his day can’t get worse, the ketchup spills all over his lunch. Then things go south, when he’s approached by the shady DEA agent James De Marco (Michael Irby), who steals his fries and serves up a side of extortion.  

Las Perlas

After witnessing a shocking scene in the courtroom, Mickey and the gang head to this cool mezcal bar downtown to drown out the intensity. Just when it seems like Mickey may fall off the wagon and take a shot, Lorna comes in and downs it. Mickey picks up a seltzer instead. Outside, he runs into Andy. “Maybe I pushed Bishop too far,” he says. “No,” she responds. “You did your job, that’s all.

Season 2

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elysian

Mickey Haller: lawyer by day, foodie by night. One of Mick’s passions is sampling different restaurants in the city, which leads him to elysian, a popular spot in LA’s Frogtown neighborhood. After meeting owner and chef Lisa Trammell (Lana Parrilla), the two immediately hit it off — but their relationship will soon be jeopardized by a murder case. Elysian does actually exist in Frogtown: The facility functions as a retreat venue and film and photo shoot space, so don’t bank on getting a dinner reservation as easily as Mickey does. “The art department turned that into what it looks like in the show,” says DiPatri. “It had all the elements that the scripts called for in the bones of the space, and we were able to make it into the restaurant that we wanted for The Lincoln Lawyer.”

The Paseo Club

After finding himself in a sticky blackmail situation with Russell Lawson (David Clayton Rogers), Mickey confides in his mentor David “Legal” Siegel. The two friends lounge at the Paseo Club, an upscale sports spot in Valencia, California.

The Cowboy Palace Saloon

Cisco meets with Teddy Vogel (Chris Browning), leader of the Road Saints biker gang, at The Cowboy Palace Saloon in Chatsworth, California. Dimly lit with neon signs, this local dive bar is the perfect spot for dealing with shady business — or, conversely, for giving line dancing a whirl. 

6th Street Bridge

Looking for a picturesque view of the LA skyline? Hop into (a rented, probably) Lincoln and cruise over the 6th Street Bridge for the views. Connecting the Arts District to Boyle Heights, the viaduct opened in 2022 after being demolished and rebuilt and boasts beaming concrete arches. 

“We always do our best to be authentic, to incorporate real places, restaurants, etc., and people into the show and to build our stories around real issues in the city — the tech world in Season 1, the gentrification debate and the world of foodie culture in Season 2,” says Humphrey. “Beyond that, we show up with a camera and let the city play itself. There’s no substitute for shooting in the actual place you’re depicting.”

Los Angeles Equestrian Center

Despite being divorced, Mickey and his ex-wife Maggie often spend time together at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center watching their daughter, Hayley, take riding lessons. Located at the top of Griffith Park, the 75-acre venue hosts events, classes, and horse shows. 

Highly Likely Café

Hoping to get intel from one of the key witnesses in the case against Lisa, Lorna goes to Highly Likely to snoop around. Pretending to have bad eyesight, Lorna asks the witness to read her the menu. The laid-back café is in West Adams, California, and serves coffee, beer, and a full breakfast and lunch menu. 

Downtown LA pedestrian footbridge 

Mickey and fiery District Attorney Andrea Freemann go head-to-head in the courtroom this season. The two lawyers might not agree, but the pedestrian footbridge downtown is their regular meeting spot to talk out their differences. The arched bridge near LA City Hall is the ideal spot to handle any serious business away from the courtroom drama. 

LA River walk

During their stroll along the LA River, Mickey and Lisa discuss the fate of the trial. Mickey asks Lisa if she’s going to plead guilty, but she refuses to. It’s not just her restaurant at stake –– she could face the rest of her life behind bars for a crime she insists she didn’t commit. Whether you’re also in legal trouble or just need some fresh air, the popular path is perfect for getting some outdoor time in LA. 

Sunset Strip

After Maggie reveals to Mickey that she’s moving to San Diego for a new job, he hops in his Lincoln Continental convertible and goes for a drive down the Sunset Strip. Located in West Hollywood, this famous stretch is known for its lively entertainment, nightlife, dining, and shopping. Did you catch Mickey cruising past some hidden Netflix references? (Peep Selling Sunset’s Oppenheim Group office and the Extraction 2 billboard.)

Venice Beach Boardwalk

Now that the trial’s over, Mickey can finally spend some quality time with his daughter, Hayley. As father and daughter stroll along the Venice Beach Boardwalk, Mickey notices some bodybuilders working out. He takes a closer look, and then it hits him: One of the bodybuilders is actually an actor who Lisa hired to pose as her ex-husband, Jeff (Adam J. Harrington). 

Le Grand Restaurant

Feeling discouraged after uncovering Lisa’s lies, Mickey meets with Siegel for dinner at Le Grand Restaurant. “If you sacrifice too much for this job, you’ll end up like me,” Siegel warns his prodigy. “Alone, divorced with two kids who barely speak to me. You don’t want to be a male spinster.” The steakhouse restaurant is located downtown and hosts live music and DJs.

All episodes of The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 are now streaming on Netflix. 

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