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Korean in Los Angeles
Community consensus
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Top Tier Editorial has a take on Korean in Los Angeles below. The community ranking opens up once a few locals have weighed in.
Top 5 Korean in Los Angeles
Editorial canon from LA's most-trusted food publications.
- #1
Park's BBQ
Koreatown
“Jenee Kim's hand-marinated galbi has been the Koreatown KBBQ benchmark since 2003 and the one all newcomers are measured against.”
- #2
Soban
Koreatown
“The Michelin-recognized mother-daughter banchan specialist whose soy-marinated crab and braised black cod define traditional K-town.”
- #3
Baroo
Arts District
“Kwang Uh and Mina Park's fermentation-forward tasting menu is LA Times' No. 3 restaurant and the face of modern Korean cooking in LA.”
- #4
Kobawoo House
Koreatown
“Open since 1983 and still the city's definitive bossam, serving pork belly wraps that set the K-town standard.”
- #5
Quarters Korean BBQ
Koreatown
“The Chapman Plaza modernist that reinvented the all-you-can-eat KBBQ template with quarter-pound cuts and serious marinades.”