Grandma's Deli Babushka — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Delicious! Wide selection from stuffed peppers to stroganoff, fried chicken or fish cutlets, and a large selection of salads: cabbage, carrot, beet to name a few. Also a small pastry selection with apple or cherry turnovers some cakes and puddings. I tried a chicken cutlet; excellent when heated in my air fryer. I got the grated carrot salad, which is grated carrots. It had at least double the amount of salt it would need for my taste. - I typically don’t use salt when I cook at home for health reasons. - I mixed it with additional vegetables I had on hand. It’s also spicy with cayenne.The beet and bean (red kidney beans) salad is fantastic! It’s hearty but light and refreshing. The cabbage salad also is absolutely delicious. It is shavings of red peppers, grated orange carrots, slices of cabbage, ribbons of yellow peppers, and other fresh green bits with wonderful seasoning. The beef for the stroganoff is just delicious. A deep flavor. Nice cut of beef, and the mushroom gravy that goes with it is some thing you won’t forget and will come back for more! They do have prepared mashed potatoes, and some bulgur as well that you could choose to take home with you to go with the beef stroganoff. - The customer service is absolutely stellar! Sweet, kind, patient and helpful. I got small size container of three salads, at $4.50-ish each, a chicken cutlet, a fish cutlet, beef for beef stroganoff and the mushroom gravy that goes with it (which I ate over farro) and a cherry...

I really didn’t want to write this review - but my last interaction with them made me finally do it.I have been a customer for a while both in this and Hollywood locations- and have referred numerous customers to them over the years. However, on multiple occasions I would come home and discover that certain items would be missing in the bag that they would pack for me. Every time I called to let them know - they would always say that they forgot to put it - but no worries- I was not charged for it.The problem is the receipts they give you are not itemized which is not ethical- and you can never find which items you actually bought and how much they are as it only gives you a number of items and the prices. I continued shopping there despite these glitches because I like their products, however recently I purchased a lot of products there and before I left I asked them to dbl check that all my food was packaged properly and that I have all items . She confirmed I had all products in. When I got home - I again discovered that certain product - that they sliced for me- was not in my bags. I called them and stated the facts and the response was -Well, if it was sliced , then you paid for it and it means you have it Too bad that they would take a position of accusing the customer of basically lying about something that keeps happening on the regular basis. Very...

Excellent pleasant service! The young woman who helped me was patient with my many questions (Lana I think?).

I am not Russian or Eastern European background but have friend who are and got me interested in these foods and cultures. This was only my second visit and it is about a 30-40 minute drive each way but we'll worth it.

Everything I have tried has been very fresh and tasty, even new foods that were unfamiliar to me, interesting to explore! They have recently added labels with names and descriptions to each item in the large deli cases,, a big help for me..

I will have to plan more frequent trips in the future. Saturdays are naturally very busy so weekdays during the day is suggested for more relaxed exploring but even on my first visit (on a Saturday), they were very patient with my many questions.

As others have mentioned, their beef stroganoff is amazing, cabbage rolls, many soups, Russian potato salad, can't go wrong.

Update: I just visited again June 2022 and everything above still applies. Very pleasant, patient and helpful staff again. I went during the week so zero wait. It is probably good I live 25 miles away so I cannot easily visit more often (for my waistline)))) But they have a lot of vegetable based foods and soups also so something...