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Where to buy meat in Koreatown? List of butcher shops, etc… And where to procure whole roasted pigs?

 
Eva's Lechon: Filipino Suckling Pig on Third Street in Los Angeles

Eva’s Lechon

Address: 4252 W 3rd St
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 – 3rd & Western

Address: 301 S Western Ave
Phone Number: 213-251-9988

Korean-owned butcher shop at Western Village Square, on the southwest corner of Western Avenue and Third Street.

Montana Natural Meat

Address: 355 S Western Ave
Phone Number: (213) 383-5353

B health rating as of October 2016.

Choice Meat Market – Olympic

Address: 2716 W Olympic Blvd
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
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

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

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

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.