Reader David Novak noticed that the Du-pars at Farmers Market has been closed a long time—not the sixty days promised last summer when the chain was sold. He feared that after renovating the new owners might go in a new direction: "I miss the best pancakes in LA." So he shot off an email and received reassurances from the front office that the location will still be a Du-pars when it reopens "hopefully sometime in September or October." Studio City and Thousand Oaks remain open.