20 Things You Somehow Missed In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Finally, Quentin Tarantino's love letter to 1969 Los Angeles was always going to shine a spotlight on some of the areas most iconic landmarks.

And whilst being swept away by all of the larger than life characters and consistently mesmerising soundtrack and locations heard and seen here, many probably didn't realise that a lot of the moments captured on camera were filmed within and in front of these legendary real-life LA places.

The real Musso & Frank Grill, the restaurant where Rick meets with Marvin early on, was used to shoot that marvellous scene, with "Hollywood's oldest eatery" being closed down for five days. 

The place worked a treat, mostly because it looked pretty much the same way it has done since it opened in 1919 - they even got to use plates from the '60s, too (via AD).

The aforementioned real Playboy Mansion also pops up on-screen, and the Mexican restaurant El Coyote - where Sharon Tate ate her last meal - makes an appearance, with Margot Robbie even shooting her scenes in the same booth Tate sit in with pals whilst shooting (via Variety).

Tarantino also rolled back the years by replacing the LED marquees on the iconic Bruin Theatre and Fox Village Theatres in Westwood Village with real ones, briefly turned a Taco Bell into a Hamburger Hamlet, a Starbucks into an Italian Cafe, and gave Stan's Donuts shop - a joint that had been open since the mid'-60s - a makeover, too (via Esquire).

Put simply, this director and the rest of his team did everything they could to make Los Angeles as much of an eye-catching character as the rest of their stacked cast.