Los Angeles · Cuisine
Filipino
Historic Filipinotown street food and turo-turo, Filipino-American barbecue, Chinatown rotisserie, and Melrose Hill Quezon bowls.
Filipino dining in Los Angeles runs through Historic Filipinotown on Temple Street, Echo Park, Chinatown’s Far East Plaza, Melrose Hill, and denser South Bay and Southeast LA corridors. DIY street-skewer nights, cafeteria-style turo-turo steam tables, smoked Filipino-American barbecue, chef-driven rotisserie rooms, and elevated fast-casual Quezon cooking sit a short drive apart. The restaurant pages below cover a Temple Street parking-lot grill, a long-running Historic Filipinotown turo-turo, an Echo Park smokehouse for coconut beef adobo, a Chinatown chicken-inasal wine bar, and a Melrose Hill Southern Tagalog rice-bowl and pancit room.
Focus areas: Historic Filipinotown, Echo Park, Chinatown, Melrose Hill
Restaurants
Dollar Hits
$Historic Filipinotown
Historic Filipinotown street-food room for cheap skewers you finish on the parking-lot charcoal grills.
Bahay Kubo
$Historic Filipinotown
Historic Filipinotown turo-turo (now often listed as Kubo Restaurant) for steam-table plates, silogs, and catering trays since 1992.
The Park’s Finest
$$Echo Park
Echo Park smokehouse for Filipino-American barbecue, Mama Leah’s coconut beef adobo, and cornbread bibingka.
Lasita
$$Chinatown
Far East Plaza Filipino rotisserie and natural wine bar for chicken inasal, pork belly lechon, and communal plates.
Kuya Lord
$$Melrose Hill
Melrose Hill elevated fast-casual for Quezon Province rice bowls, pancit chami, and Lucenachon from Lord Maynard Llera.