Toto's Grill — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Filipino street food but sold in a brick and mortar store. I haven’t been in this store since they moved to this location from their old location on Roscoe blvd and Woodman Ave.

The Storefront facing Roscoe always seems closed whenever I drove by, I drove into the parking lot around the back and saw they were open and their main entrance was in the back.

Parking: parking is kinda unusual. The stores are in a U-shape with 2 sets of 2 rows parking space that is not connected. When you drive in to park, if you don’t find an available space, you can’t drive thru to the other row, you’d have to back your car to get to the main parking lot. It was a pain.

The hours sign was electronic LED, which seemed normal to my eyes but when I tried to take a picture of the sign, the LED kept flickering and I couldn’t take a complete picture of it. Basically their hours are :

Mon-Wed : Closed Thu-Sun: 11:00am to 20:00pm Fri-Sat: 11:00am to 22:00pm

When you go in, you can pick up your choice of container, aluminum for dine-in or styrofoam for take-outs, as you go thru the line, you pick out what you want and place them into your container until you reach the cashier to pay, bring cash, based on what others have stated, they charge extra for credit card and give a 10% discount if you pay by Cash.

I would have dined in but I saw that they didn’t have rice and they didn’t have have any signs other than a hand written sign that said 1.85 which I assume is the price per stick, I heard that pre-Covid-19, it was $1.00 per stick. But they do have unique meat like liver, intestines and chicken head, their portions are kinda small (see pictures and judge for yourself) other stores only have chicken or pork on a stick and their portions are bigger, they have a few tables for dining-in, I was really hungry and was afraid I’d have to pay a lot to fill full since they don’t seem to have rice.

I came in to check it out and get basic info, so I can’t comment on the...

As someone mentioned in their review, you buy a lot of skewers--say, 18--and they only give you 3 dipping sauce containers. Why only 3? Before COVID-19, they used to leave out huge buckets of suka sauce, fishball sauce, and other sauces. We could grab as much as we wanted, and as a sauce lover who loves to complement my skewers with dipping sauces, I'm very disappointed that they now charge EXTRA if you want more than the initial amount. What kind of cost-cutting measure is this?

You might argue that it's due to health concerns. If that's the case, why not just bring out the sauces that have been prepared and place them on the table that used to be inside, where the towers of dipping sauces once stood, instead of keeping them behind the counter? I have no complaints about the meats themselves--I love their pork skewers, qwek qweks, egg rolls, and fishballs. But it's disappointing that the minimal amount of dipping sauces provided makes it hard to fully enjoy them.

I used to visit this place frequently, but since they became stingy with the dipping sauces, I've rarely gone. I went yesterday to see if anything had changed, but the same dipping sauce policy is still in place. Before COVID, this place used to be unique, especially on weekends when they would bring grills out to the parking lot and cook the BBQ there. There were always a lot of people back then; certainly more than there are now. It was a great community event where people could enjoy Filipino street BBQ. I remember it was called "Isawan sa Valley." When I asked why they don't do that anymore, they blamed it on COVID. Well, whether it's due to COVID, cost-cutting measures, or whatever, this restaurant is living off its former glory. It used to be great, but now it's just "meh." That's why I'm giving it a...

The pork barbecue I ordered was terrible—it was already stale. I brought it back to the counter and informed the staff to check it because it had a spoiled taste. About 10 minutes later, I returned to ask about it, and the staff responded sarcastically, saying, “It was alright, I actually ate three sticks of the barbecue to be sure it was okay.” He then punched his cash register as if preparing a refund, but when I requested to replace it with vegetable egg rolls instead, he again responded sarcastically: “No problem! Grab it yourself from the tray.”

I took two more egg rolls (since we had already purchased two pieces for take-out). Unfortunately, when we ate them at home, the taste was even worse—the oil used for frying clearly had the strong aftertaste of pork intestines, making the egg rolls...