California / Gaju Market
Address: 450 S Western Ave
Phone Number: 213-382-9444
Phone Number: 213-382-9444
The old Gaju Market on the northeast corner of 5th & Western is back!
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
Learn more about what’s good from real Filipinos on Twitter @FilipinoFood and Instagram @FilipinoFood
Ralphs – Wilshire & Western
Address: 670 S Western Ave
Phone Number: 213-383-5058
Phone Number: 213-383-5058
By the Wiltern Theater on Western Avenue, south of Wilshire Boulevard. You can enter via Western or Oxford Avenue.
Seafood City: Filipino Supermarket
Address: 134 S Vermont Ave
Phone Number: (213) 365-9100
Phone Number: (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
Address: 4252 W 3rd St
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!
DJ Bibingkahan
Address: 190 S Vermont Ave
Phone Number: (213) 351-9725
Phone Number: (213) 351-9725
A small, casual Philippine restaurant in the New Filipinotown area, on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street.
Regular Hours: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Pampanga Master Grill – Closed Due to Fire
Address: 231 S Vermont Ave
Phone Number: (213) 381-1180
Phone Number: (213) 381-1180
Filipino restaurant on the northwest corner of 3rd & Vermont in North Koreatown.
Check the hours and menu here. Adobo, Igado, Pinakbet, Sinigang…
Red Ribbon Bake Shop
Address: 138 S Vermont Ave
Phone Number: (213) 380-0864
Phone Number: (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.
Jollibee on Beverly
Address: 3821 Beverly Blvd
Phone Number: (323) 906-8617
Phone Number: (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.)
Filipino Bagnet Restaurant & Bakery
Address: 3253 Beverly Blvd
Phone Number: (213) 382-8000
Phone Number: (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.