Choice Meat Market – Olympic
Address: 2716 W Olympic Blvd
Phone Number: (213) 480-9988
Phone Number: (213) 480-9988
Highly rated Korean-owned butcher shop… There is another location on 3rd & Western.
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Where to find a butcher in Koreatown, Los Angeles? You know, to get organic samgyeopsal cuts?
Here’s a list of butcher shops in this part of L.A.
Shin Sun Meat Market
Address: 861 S Western Ave
Phone Number: (213) 368-9292
Phone Number: (213) 368-9292
Shin-seon (“fresh”) butcher shop. The shop calls itself “Fresh Meat” in English. Has a wide array of meats and cuts, such as organic samgyeopsal (pork belly) and Kobe beef. Seven years in the same location inside the Rodeo Galleria complex on Western Avenue.
Western 11th Meat Market
Address: 1134 S Western Ave
Phone Number: (323) 733-4677
Phone Number: (323) 733-4677
Fresh beef tongue… The butcher shop in the same tiny strip mall as Mirak Restaurant. Located just south of Koreatown’s formal borders, in Harvard Heights.
El Turco Meat Market
Address: 1111 Vermont Ave
Phone Number: (213) 380-0871
Phone Number: (213) 380-0871
Retail market that’s also a butcher shop that cuts meat according to your instructions. The equivalent of a Salvadoran grocery store with many Central American fruits and products.
El Caney Meat Market
Address: 4600 Maplewood Ave
Phone Number: (323) 661-2864
Phone Number: (323) 661-2864
Grocery store just north of Koreatown proper. Hispanic and mainstream American items… Mainly Spanish-speaking staff. Last updated: May 2014
In 2010, the Los Angeles City Council formally declared Koreatown's borders as Western Avenue, Olympic Boulevard, Vermont Avenue, and 3rd Street, with a business corridor on Western from 3rd to Rosewood Avenue.