Filipino food

Filipino food in Koreatown LA — where to find haluhalo, pandesal, lumpia, pancit palabok, bibingka and other Pinoy treats? Likely in the area informally referred to as the New Filipinotown in North Koreatown (Vermont Avenue, just north of 3rd Street) where there are many eateries serving Philipine cuisine, bakeshops that focus on pandesal and cakes and pastries with well-loved island flavors like ube, mango and macapuno, as well as Filipino grocery stores that carry many ingredients from the tropics.

A few blocks from there, you can order a roasted suckling pig from Eva’s Lechon.

Top food picks if you can find them: Curly Tops, Crunchies, calamansi juice, Filipino chicharon, ube-macapuno cake, pastries like hopia, polvoron, junk-food snacks like Chippy, “exotic” ingredients like kaong and nata de coco, Boy Bawang cornicks, banana ketchup

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Red Ribbon: Filipino Bakeshop

Red Ribbon Bake Shop


Address: 138 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: 213-380-0864

Red Ribbon is a Filipino bakeshop that’s a popular franchise in the Philippines.

This location in North Koreatown does NOT serve meals like pancit palabok; it only sells cakes, breads and pastries to take home, such as pandesal, mamon, empanadas, ube macapuno cakes, mango sponge rolls, and ensaymada.

Seafood City: Filipino Supermarket

Seafood City: Filipino Supermarket


Address: 138 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (213) 365-9100

Seafood City is a chain of Filipino grocery stores. This branch is located in North Koreatown / New Filipinotown on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street. Carries Filipino ice cream (mellorine), bottled bagoong, halo-halo ingredients, and chicharon.

Usually open Monday to Sunday, 8:00 am – 9:00 pm.

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

Eva’s Lechon


Address: 4252 W. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Phone: (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!

Filipino food on Wilshire

Neri’s Casual Dining


Address: 3377 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (213) 738-1263

Filipino restaurant and bakeshop

Bagnet Filipino Food in L.A.

Filipino Bagnet


Address: 3253 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Phone: (213) 382-8000

Source for Filipino food just northeast of Koreatown proper in the area Yelp refers to as Westlake.

Menu includes Pancit, Crispy Pata and Kare-Kare.

Jollibee Filipino Restaurant Chain

Jollibee on Beverly


Address: 3821 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (323) 906-8617

Filipino fast-food chain restaurant with many outlets around the world. This branch on Beverly Boulevard is just northeast of Koreatown proper. (Yelp refers to this area as East Hollywood.)

DJ Bibingkahan: Filipino Restaurant

DJ Bibingkahan


Address: 188 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (213) 351-9725

A small, casual Philippine restaurant in the New Filipinotown area, on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street.