Chapman Plaza — Attraction in Los Angeles

Chapman Plaza is a Spanish Revival style architectural crown jewel destination for locals and visitors in Koreatown. Nestled in between the busy streets of 6th and Kenmore, you should know there are separate entrances and exits for the valet parking. Valet is required if you want to park here for dinner and later. Street parking is impossible if not existent. If you don't want to hassle with a busy valet wait, you can find a couple of garages across the street for a fair price. At the time of this posting several restaurants and cafes that have emptied are being renovated to prep openings for new unique to K-Town restaurants along with K-Pop beauty and fashion offerings visitors to the area will love. Since a luxe Starbucks opened in early October 2018, the plaza is gearing to upgrade its offerings to fit the discerning foodie, and catering to the new higher-rent apartment complexes mixed in with the classic early 20th century architecture that gives K-Town both an attractive and livable big city vibe. Chapman Market epitomizes that Seoul-NYC-LA mashup appeal. If you like outrageous boba dessert and exotic ice cream, you should come to Snow Monster. Plan on making your treat a family meal though, because you or one of your crew will not be able to resist sharing the cotton candy haloed Boba confections. Yes it's sugary over-the-top ridiculous, and a required experience. Nothing sweeter than a Snow Monster treat and sitting underneath an umbrella covered patio terrace seat on a hot sunny K-Pop kinda afternoon. Onto Korean meals: Go to Quarters BBQ (a busstling K-Pop meets American hipster K-BBQ patio'd joint) and the ever popular Kang Ho-dong Baekjeong (KHB's tables have "The" state of the art lower-smoke BBQ cookery, for Korean binchochan "white charcoal" K-BBQ purists). These two Korean BBQ restaurants are always packed, with waiting lists of upwards of an hour plus if you arrive "later" around 7pm onwards. Worth the wait, though especially if you enjoy many other kinds of traditional Korean food, including fresh hand cut meats BBQd by you and your friends at KHB. Best to go with three or more people to any K-BBQ. Kudos and more yumminess for you, if you have no qualms solo dining like I often do. Upstairs at Chapman Plaza are "higher end" Karaoke-recording and clubby lounges I've not yet tried. A decent Korean sushi restaurant Sake House is on a corner if you're dining solo or want a change of taste from great K-BBQ. Toe Bang restaurant serves both traditional family style fare and K-kitschy "hangover-helper" bar food like fried chicken gizzards (I swear it's cheap and ridiculously addictive!) I'll update this review after the new retail establishments open after the holidays, and more coming...

I bought a cheesecake with my autistic daughter and my daughter said she wanted to eat it inside the mall, so I helped her eat at the table in front of Tiger Sugar, but the napkins I put on the table was blown away by the wind and some fell to the floor, and I was cutting cheesecake, and suddenly Korean Security came to me and told me to pick up the napkins that had fallen on the floor right away, and I said that I might pick it up after helping my autistic daughter eat it, and my daughter stopped eating and she wanted to leave the mall , so I quickly threw the utensil and napkins on the table into the trash can and my daughter is an autistic child with challenging behavior, so I have to keep watching her and be with her all the time, so I couldn't pick up the napkin that fell on the floor and came out of the mall, the Korean security was yelling and following us and threatening to pick up the napkin that had fallen on the floor, so my daughter and I were so frightened that we...

We're an Anglo and Asian couple that wanted a seat at the Saki House on Saturday evening. Although the place was not fully occupied, not throbbing with activity like the other eateries in the plaza with laughable wait times for any fare, the young Korean American woman immediately, repeatedly pushed a private room upon us-even after I declined and asked to be seated in the restaurant proper. She then took my name on a waiting list. I informed her it was plain the dining room was half empty viewed from the street-side windows. She proceeded to run inside promising to check it out. Obvious ruse. Won't be back for the cold served...