Arax Bakery

When I was a kid I used to walk to Arax bakery just to get my hands on their spicy cheese borak. It’s been a family run business since the 80’s. Everyone knows your name and knows your family.
Besides the great service their Bakery is absolutely delicious especially when its fresh out the oven. My favorites are spinach and cheese spicy cheese and manaesh. If you really think about it everything is good there just depends on your mood.
Prices are very reasonable some items range from a $ 1 to 3 dollars.
Parking is a disaster! If you can’t find a space all you need to do is block the car in front of you once you hear them honk then you need to move your car ASAP. Nobody seems to mind since all the customers are repeats and they know it’s the only way.
Next time you’re in East Hollywood and you’re in the mood for some traditional Middle Eastern baked goods stop by to Arax Bakery.

Delicious selection of baked goods.

They have the best Quality and tasting Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Armenian bakery items. They serve Quality food for low prices. They do have a small parking lot, but it gets busy, you can also Park on the street right before reaching their plaza. Like the earlier reviewer said, it is a Hidden Gem! If You aren’t already a customer, you’re missing out!

Great FRESH Armenian pastries! Nice friendly people, family owned since 1986, it’s local and it’s delicious!!!
Thankful that we finally discovered this little gem so close to home!

Great Armenian savory pastries and dirt cheap. Everything is fresh and delicious. The place doesn’t look like much and the strip mall is tiny, so parking is a little difficult. But don’t be dissuaded, because not only will you get delicious thin meat pizzas, but other great items as well.
The best thing is that the service is great. The guy helping me was very friendly and pleasant. A total 180 from some of the other places you visit in the area where it feels like they are doing you a favor even though you’re the customer (a good example is their competitor a block away, Sasoun Bakery).

I grew up on this place.
I don’t live nearby anymore but when I use to, my dad would bring me here usually on the weekends for the lahmejoun and spicy booregs.
So delicious, it will always by my favorite bakery

Awesome guy. Never been here before and I was wondering what the pastry and other stuff were. He let me try the cheurag it’s a date fruit in a type of pastry. It’s a little sweet but kinda if like a fig newton. It’s not my favorite but he let me sample it. It was good but I’ll stick with the Armenian pizza. And the spinach cheese I posted up. That was good.
This is our first time here and we wanted to try their Armenian pizza. It was only $ 1.00 a pizza. Not bad. So we bought $ 20. Worth of pizza to take to the party. Which everyone loved and took home. It was a lot of people’s first time.
Love the customer service there. Food is good and it’s not pricey.

This place may not look so inviting on the outside but once you walk in the presence of borek, tahini bread, and endless selection of wonderful things will make it all worthwhile. Friendly and immediate service. Best borek in town.

Best spicy cheese beureg and lahmajune I have ever had! This place is very humble, but what it lacks in elegance it makes up for in taste, hospitality, and cleanliness tenfold!

I was thoroughly impressed by the amazing variety of yummy treats I found in this joint. The Armenian pizzas aka: lahmajune are the best bargain in town. A pizza for under a buck you can’t beat it and they’re delicious. I tried their beuregs and their manaesh and was shocked at how tasty they were. If you want a quick bite or want to throw a party, this is the place to get some great stuff. Oh ya did I mention their sweets?

Such a hidden gem in Hollywood! It’s a small Armenian bakery owned by the nicest man ever. Everything I tried was so fresh and delicious. It’s very vegan friendly (but not gluten-​free friendly, I assume). I tried the spinach bread, potato bread, olive roll, and red pepper pie. All were fantastic! High quality and affordable Everything is pretty much $ 2 each. I would highly recommend this place!

I have never heard of Arax Bakery until last week when I had the pleasure of meeting the owner and tried pretty much everything they sell on a daily basis. Have to say the quality of the products remained as fresh even after few days. The dough remained soft and tastes exceptionally yummy. Being a mom and pops business truly provides the service and freshness everyone deserves. Highly recommend it. You will not regret that you walked in.

Best falafel in town. hands down. This mini mall hole-​in-​the-​wall is owned by an Armenian family (mom, dad, daughter and son) for 30 years. Tonight they had to kick us out an hour early because the couple had a holiday party to attend, but were so gracious and patient with us as we sat loving every bite of their food. We tried the lula kabob plate, falafel, hummus and soujouk sandwich on a french roll. The falafel and lula kabob plate were the best, with falafel topping out. Can’t wait to go back. Set back = cash only.

Best baked goods! Nicest people. Always fresh, excellent quality. Clean place. great prices. I drive up all the way from Newport Beach for their lahmejune and boureg.

I am shooting myself in the foot for reviewing this Armenian bakery. Why? because it is the best kept secret in my neighborhood. Seriously, their breads are so amazing you will find yourself addicted and kick yourself fro not knowing about it earlier…
I had some friends visiting from Seattle recently who i took here to get some savory breads for breakfast at home one day. One of my friends seemed confused as we walked onto the tiny lot of the strip-​mall containing this bakery, the 3 Amigos Restuarante Familiar, an internet café (not the coffee and pastry kind of internet café, just computers and seats and instrucciones en espanol), and Arax Bakery. The door to Arax is a heavy metal porch door you see in LA neighborhoods on the first floor of apartment complexes where people want to keep people out but get air flow. It never looks very inviting. Because of this it always seems closed. Intrepid friends, do not let this dissuade you from entering; you will regret walking away. My Seattle friend now looked a little more concerned, «how could this hole-​in-​the-​wall supply anything less then food poisoning» her face seemed to be saying. The air is always filled with the smell of delicacies baking in the oven, of sesame, tahini, thyme, and sumac. Breads are everywhere, mostly on trays and large long wooden boards. My friend seemed to be lightening up as talked with the lady who always helps me choose breads and treats me like a friend of her grandson’s. She has a smile that could warm up any of the breads cooling on their racks, a voice as sweet as the honey in the little cookies sometimes packaged in the little little glass case counter. She always tells me what is freshest. If i order something that can have the armenian string cheese added to and heated she highly encourages it.
So what do i get? You can get a whole bag of tahini bread for $ 5 which will last for a while and be used like any flat pita or middle eastern breads. It is simple and flavorful. I love the spinach and cheese flat bread, and always get a bunch for home and have at least one heated up in the large ovens you can see from the other room which once heated is wrapped in paper and rolled up like a gyro and handed to me to hold me over for the interminable walk home when i can down all of the treats with some hot tea. I also love the chard bread (turnover-​like, it is filled with swiss chard, chickpeas, and spices), the spicy olive bred (bright red and spicy, it hurts so good…), the zaatar bread (with a classic thick layer of zaatar seasoning, a combo of thyme, sesame, sumac, pepper, etc.), and the potato bread too. there are many others, some filled with meat, others with combos of various veggies. I paid for our heavy bag of savory baked goods, heavy in the hand, thanked my friend behind the counter, and the younger man i always presume is her son, and we made out way home.
Once home we unfurled the paper keeping our oven-​heated breads warm, and dug in. My Seattle friend chowed down and seemed to be in ecstasy. This is when she turned to me and said, «How do you find these places? Do you just walk around and stop into places and eat random foods?» In LA this may seem weird, to walk around and try things you have never even heard of, but thats how-​i-​do. I turned to her, and while accidentally spitting a couple sesame seeds from my zaatar at her replied, «Yes! how else do you find a place like this.» the rest of the weekend she trusted me every time we wandered into a hole-​in-​the-​wall in some random LA strip mall. Nowhere was as good as Arax though.