Dining at Farmers Market is an experience unlike any other. The Market’s restaurants offer a whole world of cuisine, all of it as fresh as can be. In many cases, Market chefs are so talented that food critics have paid them high praise (we’ve noted those with Critic Favorite). Some restaurants offer seating and table service; those that don’t are immediately adjacent to the Market’s many open air patios featuring ample seating. Additional seating is upstairs (near the Market offices) on the Dining Deck.

*The Market shops designated with this symbol feature open kitchens; you can watch the butchers, bakers, and chefs at work while you wait for your order.

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A full compliment of beers (including brands not available just anywhere) and a good wine selection make this spot the favorite “local” hang-out at the Market. The after work ambiance here is friendly and fun.

Bob’s Coffee & Doughnuts*
An L.A. institution: fresh, made-right-here doughnuts every day and a select variety of premium coffees and teas. Kids love the specialty doughnuts (dinosaurs and kitties) and everybody raves about Bob’s cinnamon roll. (Critic Favorite)

Bryan’s Pit Barbecue*
Excellent Texas-style beef, pork and chicken dishes (dinners and sandwiches always available) and savory side dishes. Locals often ask the guys behind the counter for a container of the barbecue sauce – it’s that good.

Charlie’s Coffee Shop*
A great spot for breakfast, lunch or dinner. No matter what you order – the exquisite French Toast or a great sandwich, burgers & fries or a steak sandwich – expect to hear the gang behind the counter bellow your name when your order is ready.

China Depot
Manny & Angie Chang and their family have been serving tasty Chinese dishes at this shop for decades. Regulars come back again and again for wonderful chicken and pork dishes and some swear there’s something special about the rice, too.

Chipotle*
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the gourmet restaurant where you eat with your hands, dishes up gourmet burritos, tacos, and bols (yes bol - it's a burrito without the tortilla!). Choose from a variety of fresh, whole ingredients, such as Niman Ranch free-range pork and guacamole mashed from ripe California avocados, to built the perfect burrito of your dreams. All for around six bucks.

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Enjoy great coffees, teas and blended concoctions from this Market version of the very popular coffee houses and then sip to your heart’s content at one of the terrific patio tables which are available on the Market Plaza (great people watching).

Coffee Corner
A Market gem, serving coffee, teas, fruit drinks and freshly baked muffins and rolls throughout the day. This shop is a local favorite and it has been part of the Market scene for ages. Owner Lillian Sears started her career here as the counter staff – these days, she’s still pouring the friendliest cup of coffee in town. See interview with Lillian Sears.

Deano’s Gourmet Pizza*
All the right stuff:  great ingredients prepared to be as tasteful and as healthy as possible. Lots of low fat and low-cal fixin’s which Deano cooks to be even healthier (the sausage, for instance, is as light as sausage can be) – the result is one great tasting pizza. Lots of other Italian dishes here, too, one reason the place is very popular when crowds gather for West Patio music.

Du-par’s Restaurant
Perhaps the quintessential “local favorite,” Du-par’s has been around almost as long as the Market itself. Outstanding breakfast fare (the great debate:  is the French Toast better than the pancakes, or the other way around), famous pot pies, great baked goods. Some believe the phrase “comfort food” was created to describe Du-par’s. And, it’s open 24 hours so you can satisfy your Du-par’s craving anytime, day or night. (Critic Favorite)

E.B.’s Beer & Wine
Serving marvelous beers (some on tap) and pouring from an ever-changing world-wide wine list, E.B.’s is also the host of the Market’s music presentations on the West Patio. Named for Market founder Earl Bell Gilmore, E.B.’s is a great afternoon meeting spot and one of the coolest early night spots anywhere in L.A.

The French Crepe Company*
Authentic French cuisine lives here: light and luscious crepes (breakfast, lunch or dinner), magnificent sandwiches (warm and cold), all prepared to your order and all infused with that certain special touch which makes French food so delightful. (Critic Favorite)

The Gumbo Pot
Simply perfect Cajun cooking has made this spot an all-time favorite for locals and visitors alike. The beignets are phenomenal (try them drizzled with chocolate!), the gumbo is fantastic, the po’boys are perfect. Be warned: when they tell you that the blackened dishes (fish, chicken, shrimp, even a meat loaf po’boy) are hot, they speak the truth. (Critic Favorite)

Johnny Rockets
Good old rock and roll permeates the patio here (table and patio seating available) and good old rock and roll dishes fill the menu: burgers & fries, a full array of sandwiches, and great breakfasts, too. Blue jeans, poodle skirts and duck-tail cuts not required.

LA Korea
Real and really good Korean fare – sample the barbecued meat or chicken, to be sure, but don’t neglect some of the best vegetables ever served. Try a neat deal insiders know and love: buy a great steak next door at Marconda’s Meats and the folks at LA Korea will prepare it to your exact specifications.

¡Loteria!
The fare here is Mexican, but it is decidedly not typical: Chef Jimmy Shaw’s fare is genuine Mexican, built on family recipes which generations have tested and perfected. Lighter than typical Mexican fare and infinitely more flavorful, the entire menu is absolutely unique – and utterly delicious. (Critic Favorite)

Magee’s Kitchen
THE Original Market restaurant– when farmers first parked trucks at Farmers Market, Blanche Magee thought they might like to have lunch, so she filled a picnic hamper and started feeding them. Today, folks still line up for outstanding roast or corned beef, tempting turkey and marvelous ham platters. Magee’s horse radish is homemade and fantastic, too, and the cole slaw is equally good. See interview with Phyllis Magee.

Market Grill
Home to a BLT which is nothing less than perfect, great burgers and hot dogs, and chicken dishes which are fresh and flavorful. The side dishes are as good as the main courses and the slaw is really special.

Marmalade Café
Choose indoor seating in a lovely restaurant or take a patio table and watch the world go by; either way, the complete breakfast, lunch and dinner menu here is great. The salads are generous, the sandwiches enormous and there’s a full bar, too.

Moishe’s Restaurant
The finest Mediterranean food anywhere, bar none: the gyros are almost too good, the chicken dishes are truly wonderful (try the chicken shwarma sandwich for lunch), the lamb dishes are top-of-the-line and there is a growing contingent of fans who are convinced that the hummus here is the best anybody has ever made. (Critic Favorite)

Mr. Marcel Pain Vin Et Fromage
Some swear that this charming French restaurant was lifted and moved, lock stock and barrel, from Paris. The quiches are perfection, the coq au vin is heaven, the steaks (with a choice of three dressings) are tres magnifique. A full and carefully chosen wine list is always available. Locals tend to favor a stool at the bar for wine and cheese. (Critic Favorite)

Pampas Grill
No cafeteria anywhere can compete with this churrascaría – move down the line to select from an amazing assortment of side dishes (salads, corn, pastas, and much more) and finish at the main course station: slowly turning beef steak, lamb, chicken (the bacon wrapped chicken is unbelievably good). You pick exactly what you desire and the serving size you want. Among the newer Market choices, Pampas is also one of the most popular. (Critic Favorite)

Patsy D’Amore’s Pizza
Before Patsy introduced it, nobody in Los Angeles had ever even heard of pizza. The most authentic pizza anywhere, Patsy’s pizza is still baked in the original brick oven with toppings as varied as you wish. Outstanding lasagna and spaghetti, too. Don’t visit without checking out the magnificent photos on the walls (the shot of Patsy and Frank Sinatra is as delicious as the food). (Critic Favorite)

Peking Kitchen
This is one of those places which proves the rule – if folks are standing at the counter waiting for the food, there must be a good reason. There is: the traditional Chinese menu here is alive with great tastes – pork and beef and chicken, a great array of vegetables, all seasoned to be full of flavor without overpowering the natural flavors.

Phil’s Deli & Grill
Just like the good old days: great counter seating (or carry away to a patio table) and the perfect diner menu (breakfast, lunch and dinner): huge sandwiches, luscious burgers and hot dogs, and deli fare worthy of New York. The Philly steak sandwich here impresses even natives of that city.

Pinkberry
Frozen yogurt at its finest. Start with two tasty flavors (original, Green Tea) and then add your own favorite fruits and berries for a scrumptious treat. Smoothies, too. Pinkberry is all the rage one taste will tell you why.

The Refresher
The perfect Farmers Market shop: a cute little place tucked away in a corner, but such a selection. They have soft drinks you’ve never heard of, and soft drinks you’ve wished you could taste again after years of deprivation. This place even has house specials (try the house root beer or flavored cola and you’ll be spoiled for anything else forever more).

The Salad Bar
Build your own salad from a complete selection of the freshest possible ingredients. Pair your salad with soup if you wish, but whether you want soup or salad or both, do not leave the counter without a smoothie – they make them right on the spot and there’s none better.

Singapore’s Banana Leaf
An astonishing offering of original recipes grace the only restaurant of its kind in Los Angeles. Chicken, fish, vegetarian dishes ranging from spicy to mild, all prepared with strict obedience to the family’s time-tested recipes and, usually, served on a banana leaf (of course). Locals just love this place. (Critic Favorite)

Starbucks
Blend it, brew it, froth it, flavor it – the world’s most famous coffee bar offers everything with great style, excellent service and, of course, their own vocabulary.

Sushi A Go Go
Some believe this place is a miracle: it is the smallest shop in Farmers Market, turning out the most flavorful sushi anywhere. This tiny spot has what many assert is the finest shrimp sushi ever to cross a counter; most who visit walk away with a full sampling of the freshest,finest Japanese treats available. (Critic Favorite)

Tusquellas Fish & Oyster Bar
Shrimp or crab salad, freshly grilled fresh catch (ask at the counter – what they have today is what you want today) and side dishes so good that some order double portions. There are two varieties of fish & chips, each with fiercely dedicated fans; locals insist that the tuna salad here is the best, period.

Ulysses Voyage
The Greek cuisine here is rich, varied and a challenge (selecting just one dish from the menu here is not an easy chore). The lamb dishes are exceptionally well-prepared, the traditional Greek fare is authentic and cooked to perfection; sit inside near a lovely fireplace and enjoy a drink or take a patio table and dine while you take in the energy and fun of the Market Plaza.

The Village
Moishe (of Moishe’s Restaurant) visited Europe and discovered a sensation sweeping the food world: part sandwich, sort of like a pizza, oven-baked to order, the pedeh is rich in flavor, lighter than traditional sandwiches and open-faced (so the rich flavors are always primary). There’s a breakfast version available as well as a wide range of selection perfect for lunch or dinner. Try one – you’ll probably end up trying several.