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Cheap pizza for the students at the nearby RFK community schools. Closed in 2014 and replaced in the space by Tu PanYou Pizza.

Ground floor of the cursed Mercury Building, across the street from the Wiltern Theater. Former space of the notorious Spanish Fly Gastropub. February 22, 2013. Licensee: DRAGER’S WILTERN, INC. Company Information Officer: LEE, YONG HO (PRESIDENT/SECRETARY) Officer: LEE, YONG HO (TREASURER) Stock Holder: LEE, YONG HO License Types 1) License Type: 41 – ON-SALE BEER […]

Also called “Cuckoo” Korean Soju Cafe or Bbuk Ghoo Ghee. Inspect the “Happy Hour” prices closely. They’re not as they seem. Located on the second floor of the strip mall known as “Wilshire Plaza” on 8th & Vermont. Across the street from the Latino market Liborio and from the Madangsae Korean BBQ restaurant. Health rating […]

Korean-run bakeshop. Out of business as of July 2014

Chicken nuggets in the Koreatown Plaza food court. Disconnected phone number: (213) 427-4324

Kimbap (rice rolls) restaurant.

UPDATE: Isa Ramen was temporarily shut down by the health department for vermin in mid-2013 and eventually closed for good in late March 2014.

Quick-service Singaporean restaurant

Southwest Koreatown. Cash only. Disconnected phone number as of May 2014: (323) 737-0097

UPDATE: Closed. The space is occupied by Pho Plus as of 2014. Daily food delivery based on a weekly diet plan. Denmark or Danish Diet, Celebrity Diet, Muscle Diet… Packages start at $25.99 a day. Office Hours: Monday thru Friday: 9am-6pm Saturday: 9am-1pm FAX (213)383-8102 In the former space of YeDang Bakery.

RODENTS – ACTIVE INFESTATION (MAJOR)

UPDATE: Closed by April 2014. Opened in 2013 in the former space of Dae Sung Oak restaurant, which had closed in 2010. Just east of Koreatown’s formal borders. DAE SUNG OAK :2006-2010

Korean-focused restaurant cafe that briefly opened in the summer of 2013 in the former space of the European-style Cafe Storygarden on Western Avenue. Not to be confused with Story Karaoke Bar Cafe on 6th Street. Replaced in September 2013 by Yongdudong Baby Octopus Restaurant.

The space was rebranded as “Woorijip Banchan” in 2013. A dirty food market inside the Cosmos Village strip mall on the northeast corner of 4th & Western. Very rude to non-Koreans who are not white.

All-you-can-eat Korean BBQ restaurant on Vermont Avenue

Closed and replaced by Bail Bonds. Towers on Western.

UPDATE: CLOSED Open Monday to Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm. Fish-taco stand in the 4th & Western car wash complex.

Mexican and Venezuelan dishes

The space was taken over by Cafe 600 in 2013. The tenant as of 2016/2021 is Tokyo Hamburg. KANPAI FRIENDS 600 S NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE Health rating of B (83) as of 03/19/2013.

Coffee shop on the east side of Western Avenue, just south of 3rd Street. Closed in the fall of 2012.

Western Avenue, just south of Beverly.

Closed as of 2014. Legend has it that it had been open since 1969.

Korean fusion restaurant. Closed in 2013. Replaced by Tofu & Noodles.

Hair salon that carried Aveda hair and skin care products in the retail front. Ground floor of the Solair building at Wilshire and Western.

Authentic Vietnamese-run pho restaurant. FREE egg rolls for every two pho orders.

UPDATE: Closed. Space taken over by Get Bbul.

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Milk tea. Next door to Myung-In Dumplings. Health rating of A as of 06/13/2012. Disconnected phone number: (213) 365-9017

Disconnected phone number: (213) 389-3840