There’s not much to take in while you settle on an order—a cafeteria-style setup with alternating walls of brick red and banana yellow—but Gaffey Street Diner doesn’t break any breakfast conventions, so it shouldn’t be too hard to decide. The menu is a down-home one, offering everything from chorizo to biscuits cooked up from scratch. [...]

Anyone from Downey or who works in Downey or who drives through Downey knows Arthur’s, which is why the teeny restaurant—with about a dozen tables and a handful of seats at the counter—is packed virtually every morning. They come for the homemade chorizo, crisp and fluffy biscuits, potatoes O’Brien—home fries mixed with green pepper and [...]