L.A. VIEW

Early Risers Club
What goes great with chili eggs and coffee?
Combat boots, of course

L.A.'s club crowd has moved its clock forward. Instead of going out at 11 p.m., people are getting together at 11 a.m.

Try finding a seat at one of the best breakfast joints some morning and you're likely to be squeezed out by regulars with tattoos, plaid shirts tied around the waist and/or miles of spiral-curled hair. These places are so hip even the waitresses wear sunglasses.

A slightly older crowd, including working screenwriters and their dogs, gathers at the nearby Kings Road Cafe. This good-looking, less tattooed bunch eats eggs with prosciutto and Bel Paese on toasted rosemary bread while wearing the daytime equivalent of club clothes: jeans with jackets, skinny-rib tank tops, colorful vests and two-tone baseball caps.