--- title: Gilmore Girls: Scott Patterson Serves Coffee at Pop-up Luke's description: Gilmore Girls actor Scott Patterson, who portrayed Luke Danes, served coffee to the fans waiting in line at a pop-up Luke's Diner in Beverly Hills. canonical: https://time.com/4520318/scott-patterson-gilmore-girls-popup/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-05T20:14:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:21.997Z og:title: The Real Luke Danes Served Up Coffee at a Gilmore Girls Pop-up Shop og:description: In a baseball cap, of course og:url: https://time.com/4520318/scott-patterson-gilmore-girls-popup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04c428225800c7eb/6988a8d12dce0151729eae9a/scott-patterson-luke-gilmore-girls-pop-up.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Gilmore Girls" Pop-Up og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Real Luke Danes Served Up Coffee at a Gilmore Girls Pop-up Shop twitter:description: In a baseball cap, of course twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04c428225800c7eb/6988a8d12dce0151729eae9a/scott-patterson-luke-gilmore-girls-pop-up.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Real Luke Danes Served Up Coffee at a _Gilmore Girls_ Pop-up Shop by [Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly Oct 5, 2016 8:14 PM UTC  Actor Scott Patterson poses with a fan at a "Gilmore Girls" themed pop-up of Luke's Diner on October 5, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. Actor Scott Patterson poses with a fan at a "Gilmore Girls" themed pop-up of Luke's Diner on October 5, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.Sarah Morris—Getty Images by [Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly Oct 5, 2016 8:14 PM UTC For _Gilmore Girls_ fans all around the nation, Wednesday represented their chance to experience a (quite literal) cornerstone of Stars Hollow when Netflix transformed [200 coffee shops into pop-up versions of Luke’s Diner.](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/05/gilmore-girls-lukes-diner-pop-up) For most fans, their experience included a free cup of coffee, baristas wearing flannel, the chance to pose with the “Luke’s” sign, and a cardboard cutout of the grumpy owner himself (which was naturally paired with a list of rules). But for _Gilmore Girls_ fans at Comoncy Cafe in Beverly Hills, California, well, they got a lot more than a cardboard cutout. _Gilmore Girls_ actor Scott Patterson, who portrayed Luke Danes in the original series and will return in the [upcoming revival](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/01/gilmore-girls-netflix-everything-we-know), put on a flannel shirt, a baseball cap — though not backwards — and served coffee to the fans waiting in line. Good news: There are no reports that anyone was thrown out of the diner, although that’s probably because Taylor didn’t show up. _Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life_ hits Netflix on Nov. 25. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/05/gilmore-girls-scott-patterson-lukes-diner) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4520318/scott-patterson-gilmore-girls-popup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4520318/scott-patterson-gilmore-girls-popup/"},"headline":"The Real Luke Danes Served Up Coffee at a Gilmore Girls Pop-up Shop","datePublished":"2016-10-05T20:14:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:21.997Z","description":"In a baseball cap, of course","url":"https://time.com/4520318/scott-patterson-gilmore-girls-popup/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04c428225800c7eb/6988a8d12dce0151729eae9a/scott-patterson-luke-gilmore-girls-pop-up.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Highfill / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04c428225800c7eb/6988a8d12dce0151729eae9a/scott-patterson-luke-gilmore-girls-pop-up.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Gilmore Girls\" Pop-Up","caption":"\"Gilmore Girls\" Pop-Up","creditText":"Sarah Morris—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4520318/scott-patterson-gilmore-girls-popup/","name":"The Real Luke Danes Served Up Coffee at a Gilmore Girls Pop-up Shop"}}]}] ```