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Pump Restaurant

defunct restaurant in West Hollywood, California, U.S

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ136547154 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pump Restaurant, or simply Pump, was a restaurant in West Hollywood, California, United States. It was operated by Lisa Vanderpump. It was described as an "offshoot" of SUR Restaurant & Lounge.

History

A car crashed into the restaurant's entrance in 2020. Pump closed in 2023.

Editorial summary

“Pump Restaurant” enters the record as defunct restaurant in West Hollywood, California, U.S. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pump, Restaurant and defunct can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pump, Restaurant and defunct.
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“Pump Restaurant” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pump, Restaurant and defunct provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136547154. Authority coordinates are 34.084, -118.385. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pump Restaurant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.