Famima!! Convenience Store

I like Famima, and this location is one of the best.
Famima is a high end convenience store, but really the prices are not terrible.
Approximately Double grocery store prices.
A Chobani yogurt ranges from $ 1 to 1.60 in the grocery store – it’s $ 2.00 here.
A banana is 90 cents or 2 for a dollar.
Basically 7-​eleven prices.
It’s a very clean and organized store and the clerks are friendly.
They will not give or offer a receipt unless asked.
There are tables and chairs right outside in the shade or sun.

First time here. So many things to buy! A lot of Asian food. I definitely want to come back. Some hot food items. Various drinks.

Great convenience store located right by the Grand Performances stage. Excellent place to buy well-​priced booze (and/​or snacks) before the show. The store is well organized and has a good selection especially considering how small it is.
If you are trying to find it from the address it is a little hard to locate cause it is tucked down on the lower level.
It is an easy walk from the metro stop (Pershing Square) and there are plenty of parking options — pricing depends on what’s happening around the time you are looking.

seriously — this place is great. drinks? — got em!, hot or cold food? — got em!, asprin? — got em!, souveniers? — got em!, — what else could you want from a quickie mart?

The onigiris at this location are pretty average.
Nice selection of Japanese snacks and fanciful items though. It definitely is a convenient store.

You can find awesome things to deep fry here. Okay, they cook it for you in delicious oil! The wings are really good here. Crunchy and oily chicken wings as God intended it to be. Make a quick stop here after the clubs/​bars. You will leave happy :)

I miss all the Famima’s! They’re closing so many, it’s hard to come by these anymore. This one is in California plaza, convenient I presume, for those who work around there. I loved the one in Glendale, before they shut it down :(
Usually get the onigiris (rice balls) filled w/​spicy tuna or tuna/​mayo, my favorites! So convenient and quick, they’re slightly less than $ 2.00 each. They also have other Japanese favs like Calpico and Ramune and other sushi items.

I consider Famima the endangered species of the convenient store universe. About 10 years ago, this chain was aggressively looking into taking over Southern CA. But, for some reason, the soda went flat and now only a few stores remain.
Most of them are in Downtown LA, providing convenience to those who live or work nearby. Two more locations live outside of the city, one in Santa Monica and another in Newport Beach. Here’s their website for more details. (
)
I’m really not a fan of their prepared foods, but anything else inside the story is fair game. I like how they use the Japanese model of the premium convenience store concept, since this chain is a cousin of Family Mart in Japan and South Korea.
Located in California Plaza, its strategically placed for easy and quick access. It gets really busy during lunch time, as many consumers grab lunch or a snack TO GO. I favor this venue because California Plaza is such a cool place to chill. When I make the trek up Angels Flight in the Bunker Hill District, I can rest easy knowing that this Famima is patiently waiting for me. It makes the walk down that much easier to bear.

Rather too much hype over not very much.
The chicken nuggets and egg rolls, though quite cheap, were quite stale and quite revolting as well. The various condiment packets gave me a lurking suspicion that they were stolen from other fast-​food places.

the best customer service you can find in la! all employees are very friendly and ALWAYS go an extra mile to help you out! I like skim milk in my coffee– and employees always just open a bottle of skim milk just for me!!! how awesome is that! Love famima!
#famima

I love Famima!
I usually pop into any Famima for onigiri (rice balls with something inside, like tuna or salmon, wrapped in seaweed).
This is a great, convenient location in California Plaza.
I only wish that it didn’t get soooooooo slammed during Grand Performances :o WoW! I can’t believe how long that line can get and how it snakes through the store.

Cute Japanese family chain that expanded in LA.
I noticed a few locations mainly in Downtown LA area (Union Station), but this one at California Plaza is my favorite. Great place to grab a snack, a quick breakfast, lunch or dinner on the go. They have a great selection of international snacks, salads, sandwiches, etc. It’s a nice store with a wide variety of snacks and drinks. Decent prices and service. I love to browse their aisles and discover items I never heard of.
It’s fun! They also carry Krispy Kreme Donuts. You can shop here and enjoy your food outside, at one of the tables set up in California Plaza. Cool place!

I frequent this place more than I’d like, because they sell those vegan cookies at decent prices. They have more «natural» treats for sale, though they tend to be pricey ($ 5+).
Sometimes, it smells of frying oil in there.
Service here is generally matter-​of-​factly, though that’s the way of the convenience store.

Convenience store with more. Has fresh sushi, premade meals, and even hot food like Bao buns and others. Great for a quick lunch or snack. Puts 7 – 11 to shame.

What a great location to have a Famima! This place is a life saver when the line at Starbucks across the alley is long. A life saver when you drank all your wine at a Grand Performances concert, or when you just want more food and snacks than you brought. How would I describe this place? Well it is an upscale Asian ⁷⁄₁₁. They have a great wine selection, great selection of chilled wines. The have bao buns, sushi, masubi, poke sticks, yan– yan and the more popular Asian snacks. They have healthy and fried snacks ranging from edamame to French fries. My only beef with Famima is that they do not have a location by my office and by my house.

I was really excited when I found out about this place because I thought it would be just like Family Mart in Japan. I love the conbini (convenient stores) in Japan because they have tons of yummy food, snacks, drinks, ice cream and other items for a reasonable price. I also miss the onigiri, ocha, jasmine cha and nikuman that I used to eat when I studied abroad in Tokyo.
This Famima is pretty legit. Of course it’s been altered to fit better with American tastes so it’s not totally Asianified but it’s a start! They had a good selection of onigiri (rice balls) and the green tea that I like too =D I grabbed a bottle before I headed up to work. They even have the nikuman (meat buns) near the register like they do in Japan so I was pleasantly surprised by that!
Very convenient location for those working in Cal Plaza or in the surrounding area, but it is kind of hidden. If you go down the stairs near the cross walk to the underground area and make a left you will see it. Definitely worth stopping by! (^-^)
*But I still pray for the day a legit Japanese conbini will appear in the US

I was excited to see a Famima while strolling through Downtown because there aren’t much of these places as there used to be.
I love all the Japanese snacks that are given here, so reminds me of wandering through Tokyo convenient stores in my travels.
Love their grab and go treats, whether it’s their chicken wings, musubi’s or sandwiches, it’s, you get in and out quickly.
And what… they have an entire aisle dedicated to Hello Kitty stuff? Why yes!

I love Famima! (modeled after a Japanese 7 – 11) so much that when I went to a 7 – 11 IN Japan, I got super excited about how much it resembled a Famima!!. Yep, kinda backwards.
If I lived near a Famima! I would never need to cook or go to the store. They’ve got all my favorite Japanese/​Asian things (bao makes for the perfect afternoon snack, as does anything in their sushi section, and the spam musubi if you are lucky enough to get one before it sells out…) as well as non-​Asian things like hotdogs, chicken nuggets, chicken wings, french fries etc. and every time of bottled drink you could imagine. Everything is fresh, good, and CHEAP.
It’s just super convenient without sacrificing quality. I only wish there were more around…

This Famima has a pretty good selection: sushi, onigiri, pasta, beers, hot snack items and Japanese teas.
This is perfect for this location. You can grab a delicious healthy snack and eat outside.

I don’t mean to racial profile (here in a good way), but the black chick behind the counter is always pretty cool — I ordered a small coffee and she offered me a large cup so that there’s room to put fixings in (yes, some days i drink my coffee not-​black).
This courtesy is unheard of at Starbucks, where the baristas just give you three-​fourths of a cup, or you end up pouring some coffee into the trash can. i think she gave me extra coffee, enough for a medium!
Coffee prices are similar to Starbucks’ drip but here you can pump your own syrup and make your own caramel latte for half the price and probably half the calories! woohoo for frugality!