Cole's, the oldest restaurant in Los Angeles, is set to close. The claimed birthplace of the French dip sandwich will shutter after 117 years.

Opening its doors in 1908, the original creator of the French dip sandwich will officially shutter its doors after almost 12 decades.

Los Angeles’ oldest restaurant is dipping out. Cole’s French Dip — a 117-year-old mainstay of downtown LA that claims to have originated the French dip sandwich — will shutter due to vandalism, sky-high rent and “general crime,