La Guadalupana Mkt

I have a slight addiction to Organic food stores. Rainbow Groceries has become one of the benchmarks I judge all others by. It is HUGE, exciting, well priced (relatively) and filled with beautiful people (both the staff and the customers). Every time I go it feels like my birthday and the whole store it’s my gift.

This place smells like a smooth mixture of rotten groceries and produce on a good day and a fresh baby diaper on a bad day.
For fun I bring friends here to buy a can of soda just to see if they complain about the smell (which they always do) because I know it’s not just me.

Last weekend I had a family BBQ and needed everything to throw a party. A friend told me about this place and I’m so glad he did. The meat was all fresh, delicious and reasonably priced. And on the way out i got all the produce I needed and tons of drinks. Prices were great and everyone was super nice and answered my questions. I can’t say enough good things about this market. I’ll be a customer from now on.

There’s a few Hispanic markets in Echo Park but non come close to this one. Produce is always stocked well with the usuals along with rare fruits and vegetables you don’t always find at major grocery stores.
The deli has the best Carne Asada I’ve ever had. I’ll be doing all my summer bbq shopping here for sure.

Love this market! Super close to my house and it always has great produce for a great price!

I was checking out the farmer’s market in Echo Park, and I noticed the big virgin mary on the back of this building in the parking lot that said LG Market. It looks super old school like it’s been there for years. So when i was done at the market I still needed a few things. My friend said we should skip Lassens because they hate gay people and marriage equality which is super lame. So we went into LG, which I guess is short for La Guadalupana. Anyways, I couldn’t even believe how cheap everything was in this place. I literally got so much stuff for almost nothing. It was so crazy I even asked the girl at the register why everything was so cheap. She said, well that’s how much stuff costs. Dang, and here i was thinking all grocery stores had similar prices, I guess not. I wish this place was right by my house I would go here all the time. I mean yeah, it’s a little older looking in comparison to like Whole Foods or something but I guess that’s where you get the savings. I dunno, it felt cool, like a real down home market. You could see the customers chatting with the employees, I thought that was really sweet. I mean I can’t even think the last time I just talked to some random employee at the super market. I guess I really gotta start shopping at smaller stores like this more often.

Man am I sad to write this review, but today’s action completely repulsed me. I grew up in echo park all throughout my childhood and so since I have moved, I enjoy to come back quite often to some of my most frequented locations; this was one of them.
I went in with my mom to buy some groceries and fresh sandwich meat from the meat deli area. We go and ask the guy to please slice us up 2 different kinda of meats. He goes about and gets the meat and slicer ready when his compadre decides to deal with the numerous flies that were zipping around. Well I didn’t expect to see him grab an old fashion plastic fly swatter and start killing them as if it were a game to win! He sways them right on top of the meat table that they cut the meat and cheese on and was killing them on top of the machinery too. Instead of wiping the guys off, he calls for the next patron to help out.
I mean I get that you cook the meat you buy, but I didn’t plan on frying up my sandwich meat! I was just really disappointed to see this. The foul odor is another story. Lol

Two 20 oz drinks, 1 diet coke and 1 sprite for 3.70 cents what a rip off. These guys like to overcharge

An Echo Park staple. Best produce in town at great prices. Friendly staff all around. Parking in rear in city lot.

This place is my go to market when I am making my favorite dishes and I am out of an ingredient. It is conveniently close to my house. It has pretty good and fresh selections of produce most of the time. Although fruits and veggies are limited and pricey is the best you can get! Service has improved throughout the years. The guys on the meat department can get a little bit too nice when you’re ordering from them but I guess that’s a good thing for you after all. The bagging guy, I think he is one of the owners, is nicer than the cashiers at times I think having him there make them nervous. Cashiers aren’t friendly nor rude they’re just doing their job and that also great as you get it over with fast at busy hours.

Great prices, impressive mix of Mexican and Salvadorian products even things like fresh loroco, epazote, etc. and different creamas and quesos. I agree that it’s about half the price of big chain stores and the quality is as good or better. Love.

An Echo park classic. More times than not there is a pretty foul odor coming from the meat market, but besides that everything is pretty good. Reasonable prices, the produce is okay, wide range of Mexican products, I’m in!

Good produce section and at cheap prices. They don’t have everything that a big chain store has but it’s perfect for stopping in when I forget an ingredient in the middle of cooking. Friendly staff.

Finally a mom and pop shop that has everything I need grocery wise. Plus I’m all about supporting the little guys any day over big chains. It’s not the biggest place, but they have what you need and much cheaper than any big chain. The staff is friendly too, they don’t really speak much English but they’re all smiles and will def try to help you if they can.
I totally recommend shopping local almost any day over big chains and this place really gets my vote. Plus it has a ton of cool Christian stuff on the walls, Mary, Jesus, etc, you can’t go wrong with that. I feel like I’ve become more pure just shopping there.

4 stars mostly for their meat counter. Much more trusty than what you would get across the street at Sav-​A-​Lot, and for the same price.
Good place to go for discounts on brand name sauces (A-​1, Worschester), cereal, condiments. Bad place to go for tomatoes.
Also, $ 10 minimum on credit cards– so bring cash if you only plan on grabbing a few items.

When the recipe I’m working on needs a lemon I don’t have, or eggs I’m out of, I come here… it’s within spitting distance of my apartment. Buy local, I say, and it doesn’t get much more local than that.
Anyway I’d rather give La Guadalupana my money than Save A Lot across the street. (Though that place has its merits, too.) Help the little man, skip the middle man.

This place is one of my favorite places to shop in Echo Park for food, the other being A Grocery Warehouse. You can get a pile of veggies for a fraction of what you would pay @ Ralph’s, etc. Also they have tasty Al Pastor and other meats as well as Crema and many kinds of awesome cheese. You can get supplies to make a pile of tacos for under 10 bucks, who needs the trucks?

Oh, and – I’m not sure if this is blasphemous or obnoxious to mention, but there’s an altar in the front. To me it’s a homey reminder of the good things about the old school part of the neighborhood…
also, it reminds me of visiting my italian friend suzi’s home growing up, except their altar was kind of star trek ish.

The produce guy was kind enough to let me practice my terrible Spanish. It went like:
R: Perdone, señor? [Grinning at me curiously to see if I’m messing with him because I’m very white and we’re in Echo Park, not Mexico City]
Guy: Si, señorita?
R: Donde esta el oregano?
Guy: [Thinking: «Now she really must be fucking with me… oregano? Seriously? At least she didn’t ask me where the nachos are. Not a bad accent though. Dang, cool hoodie, too.”] Yo te mostrare.
R: Gracias.
Guy: De nada.
Unilocal apparently doesn’t support characters with accents on them… so excuse the spelling, por favor.

This is a nice little market. Im usually go a few times a week to pick up something like cerial/​bananas/​water. I do my main shopping at the nearby Vons. Their prices are pretty good. But im not a big cook and most of the stuff they sell are for people you cook stuff not push buttons on their microwave. One thing i noticed they don’t have much like reduced fat stuff like fat free sour cream for example they just have sour cream. And it might have changed but when i looked they didnt have low fat/​fat free cream cheese just regular cream cheese. Recently they did start stocking bagels. Not sure when they get them and they seem to sell pretty good but most days they are there.
The check out people are ok. Their first language is spanish which isnt surprising since its echo park. When i moved into the neighborhood a few years back i thought the ladies that checkout would give me the stink eye because im not latino but i think thats just how they are. There is one lady i always try to get into her line she is always nice to me so i seek her out. In the back is a deli and sometimes you will get to hear the guys behind the counter singing along with the spanish radio, can be entertaining. Sometimes they listen to a spanish radio station that plays american music that has been converted to spanish. So you will be buying your cerial and hear dude singing journey songs in spanish.
But you have to go by the deli because sometimes but not often they have homemade guacamole. And oh my god is it great! It actually tastes different like its their own recipe but when they have those tubs of guac get that and some chips and you are in for a treat. But its good they dont have it all the time because i can never turn it down if i see it.