Choice Meat Market – 3rd & Western
Address: 301 S Western Ave 90020
Phone Number: 213-251-9988
Phone Number: 213-251-9988
Korean-owned butcher shop at Western Village Square, on the southwest corner of Western Avenue and Third Street.
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Where to buy meat in Koreatown? List of butcher shops, etc… And where to procure whole roasted pigs?
Montana Natural Meat
Address: 355 S Western Ave 90020
Phone Number: (213) 383-5353
Phone Number: (213) 383-5353
B health rating as of October 2016.
Eva’s Lechon
Address: 4252 W 3rd St 90020
Phone Number: (213) 383-3179
Phone Number: (213) 383-3179
Specializes in roasting whole pigs and chickens Filipino-style.
Must order about three to five days in advance. Cash payment only. Upon pick up.
A hit during Thanksgiving!
Choice Meat Market – Olympic
Address: 2716 W Olympic Blvd 90006
Phone Number: (213) 480-9988
Phone Number: (213) 480-9988
Highly rated Korean-owned butcher shop… There is another location on 3rd & Western.
Shin Sun Meat Market
Address: 861 S Western Ave 90005
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 90006
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 90006
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 90004
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.