Oh Ma Ni Dak Kalguksu [CLOSED]
Hopefully there’s still room for tiny family run restaurants like Oh Ma Ni as Koreatown continues to evolve. Eun Mi Lee and mother Koo have just five wood tables on a K-Town side street,...
Chunju Han Il Kwan Spicy Mixed Casserole
When the temperature dips below 60 degrees Fahrenheit in L.A., which isn’t often, people start running toward hot comfort foods that are probably better suited to sustaining Himalayan sherpas or Antarctic explorers. In Koreatown,...
3rd Street Restaurant: Playing Chicken in Koreatown [CLOSED]
Koreatown is one of the only L.A. neighborhoods that house a herd of culinary specialists. Sure beef gets a lot of love in K-Town, especially now that AYCE BBQ spots have proliferated, and pork...
3rd Street Restaurant Chicken Noodle Soup [CLOSED]
3rd Street Restaurant, a chicken-focused Koreatown establishment with a 30-year track record, somehow escaped my gaze until writer Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee recently covered it for the LA Times. The simple setting includes a yellow...
Cho Man Won Glazed Chicken [CLOSED]
Cho Man Won is the latest restaurant from from the people who own adjacent O Dae San Korean BBQ in Koreatown. This Chinese-influenced Korean spinoff is a dumpling and noodle house that promises 10K+...
Nae Ko Hyang Osam Bulgogi [CLOSED]
Is it worth eating Korean food outside of Koreatown in L.A. County? That’s a question that once again crossed my mind while driving south along Normandie Avenue into Harbor City, the haunting image of...
