Korean
Banchan A La Carte
141 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90004
323-465-2400
Although named for the side dishes traditionally served with Korean meals, this small upscale market and café offers more than kimchi…
Website: http://banchanbox.com
Neighborhood: Downtown, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Mid-City
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Beverly Soon Tofu Restaurant
2717 W. Olympic Blvd., Ste. 108, Los Angeles, CA, 90006
213-380-1113
The soon dubu jjigae, a garlicky stew of soft, fresh tofu and your choice of meat or fish, roils and bubbles in its small iron pot…
Website: http://www.beverlysoontofu.com/
Neighborhood: Koreatown, Los Angeles
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Chego
727 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
(323) 380-8680
The glazed pork belly rice bowl, stocked with no less than a dozen ingredients, looks like something made by a cook cleaning out his fridge.
Website: http://www.eatchego.com
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Ham Ji Park
3407 West 6th St #101C, Los Angeles, CA, 90020
(213) 365-8773
This divey haunt has an unwritten rule: On your table must be either a bowl of the hearty pork neck and potato stew known as gamjatang or a sizzling plate of the charred sticky pork ribs called dweji galbi.
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Han Bat Sul lung tang
4163 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90020
(213) 388-9499
Speaking of hangover cures, there seems to be a science to sul lung tang, the soothing, cloudy stew made from vitamin-rich beef bones that are boiled for a full day. It’s like bovine-based Gatorade.
Neighborhood: Mid-Wilshire
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Kae Sung Market
1010 S. St. Andrews Pl.., Los Angeles, CA, 90019
323-737-6565
Situated in the heart of K-Town, Kae Sung Market stocks a constellation of kimchi to go, but it’s the jar of sliced Chinese cabbage that takes top honors.
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat, Korean, Restaurants
Kobawoo House
698 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90004
213-389-7300
This 26-year-old tavern served Korean tacos long before the Kogi truck. Known as bosam…
Neighborhood: Koreatown, Los Angeles
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Park’s BBQ
955 S Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90006
213-380-1717
There’s Korean barbecue and then there’s Park’s, an unremarkable-looking space where the tables are covered with enough heavily marbled slices of beef to make a butcher weep.
Website: http://parksbbq.com/
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Barbeque, Korean, Restaurants
POT
3515 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90010
213-381-7411
Roy Choi’s flashy Kogi concept transformed the “roach coach” into something more than approachable—it became cool.
Website: http://www.eatatpot.com/
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Soot Bull Jeep
3136 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90005
213-387-3865
Dining at Koreatown’s Soot Bull Jeep is the gastronomic equivalent of fighting a wildfire: the smoke, the heat, the ash…
Neighborhood: Koreatown, Los Angeles
Category: Korean, Restaurants
The Prince
3198 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90005
213-389-2007
Our city’s most intimate bars are inevitably those lucky enough to have attached themselves to survivors of Hollywood’s golden age: Musso Frank Grill and the Smoke House, the Hotel Bel-Air and the Langham Huntington in Pasadena. While these spots are fabulously frozen in time…
Neighborhood: Koreatown, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Bars, Korean, Restaurants
Wako Donkasu
3377 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 112, Los Angeles, CA, 90010
213-381-9256
Wako’s specialty is shaggy-coated, deep-fried everything: pork cutlets, chicken, shrimp, fish, beef…
Neighborhood: Koreatown, Los Angeles
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Wharo
4029 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90292
310-578-7114
This is Korean barbecue, upmarket style. After a little chop chae (glass noodles with beef), pajyun…
Website: http://www.wharo.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Marina del Rey
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Yu Chun Chic Naeng Myun
3185 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90006
(213) 382-3815
This bare-bones Korean dining hall—as bustling as an ice cream parlor in summer—serves the best bowl of naeng myun in town: a heap of pitch-black arrowroot noodles swimming in an icy beef broth. Spicy mustard is on hand should you wish to singe your sinuses while cooling off.
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Korean, Restaurants