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The meat selection doesn't veer into the exotic â?" there are no offal cuts, and no seafood â?" and your choices generally come down to the question of whether... More »
Soot Bull Jeep may be the best of L.A.'s 100-odd Korean barbecues, noisy, smoky, with all the bustle you'd expect in the heart of a great city, a place to cook your own... More »
A gleaming, sterile, mostly takeout joint in a Koreatown mall, Kyochon is an early local outpost of a thousand-restaurant chain that prepares chicken with an intense precision... More »
If you spend much time watching period Asian movies, you will remember scenes of dark inns, a scrim of pale steam, a crew of women tending an ancient grill, prodding... More »
Honey Pig is a Korean barbecue restaurant, with meat cooked at the table on big,dome-shaped grills, rather than the more common flat ones. The house specialty is pork... More »
Jokbal -- braised pig's foot -- specialists abound in Jangchung-Dong, the district of Seoul that the Koreatown restaurant Jang Choong Dong is named... More »
Notorious shower singers should give Rosen Music Studio in Koreatown a shot. The vibrant karaoke joint is perfect for single-person booth sessions for anyone who... More »
Lost in the smoky haze of cigarettes and Korean BBQ that envelopes much of Koreatown is the most civilized, most quiet, most splendidly restful tea shop in... More »
When you've got a song in your heart, money is no object. That's the idea behind Palm Tree L.A., a glitzy Koreatown karaoke spot that caters to an above-the-bar... More »
Roy Choi may be the Led Zeppelin of street food: the father of a truck-based restaurant industry; the chef who draws huge numbers of people to deserted parking lots; the... More »
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If the walls full of celebrity photos (from Korean pop stars to Keanu Reeves) at Park's BBQ don't tip you off, if the Michelin-"recommended" plaque doesn't clue you in, if the lines out the door don't give you some idea that you're somewhere special, well, the smell ought to do it. The source is beef fat, or, more precisely, smoky delicious meat smoke, which starts at your...
A-Frame, Roy Choi's converted Culver City IHOP, begs to be taken lightly — there's the loud music, the beautiful people, the cross-cultural hodgepodge of a menu, the gossipy waitress who's likely to slide into the seat beside you and breathily exclaim, "Hey, what's up?" as if she's your date and not your server. (You wish.) Even though this food can be loosely...
Soban is the type of place that could be easily overlooked. It's a minimalist but cozy mom-and-pop restaurant, the kind with old, lacquered wood tables and weathered pictures of soups and stews on the wall. It's not until the meal begins that you start getting hints that you're eating somewhere special. The banchan dishes are plentiful and intricate in their...
There are so many reasons to try this places out. 1. Chef Roy. 2. The creativity of the menu. 3. The fact that they have pandesal and Vietnamese iced coffee on the menu (breakfast of champs!)
Try:
Kitchen Fries
Island's Farmer Market Salad
Cracklin Beer Can Chicken
Clam Chowder (LOVE!)
Chu-Don't-Know-Mang
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The Spicy Korean Rice Cake & Fried Chicken Wings hit the spot when paired with an icy cold lager. Can't wait to make my trip to LA to catch the Lakers on the flat screen and share some good times with old friends and new at my favorite hangout.
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