City & Culture

Libra hotel is conveniently located ONLY 5 minutes walking distance from the Wilshire/Western Metro station. Koreatown, where our hotel stands, is central to EVERYTHING… Hollywood, Downtown LA, Santa Monica, you name it. You can get there in 20 minutes or less. Now a little more on our gem of a city….

Los Angeles may not have snow, but we have Koreatown, a vibrant neighborhood of incredible restaurants, bars, markets, spas, bookstores and more. Exploring is a sport all its own. Los Angeles, of course, is lucky enough to have the largest Korean community outside the motherland and a concentration of restaurants that pick up trends sometimes just months after they have hit Seoul. Koreatown isn’t just a Korean neighborhood — with its markets, nightclubs, towers, billiard parlors and food-obsessive mini-malls, it sometimes seems as if it is a distant prefecture of Seoul that just happens to be extra-rich in Salvadorans, Oaxacans, and Mexican cuisine. What ever you do, don’t go home without trying Korean BBQ.

List of things to do:

Korean BBQ (again, its a must) Our favorites: Quarter’s BBQ, Soot Bul Jeep, Hae Jang Chong, and Parks BBQ
Go right down stairs to eat at Here’s Lookin at You. Fine dining, fine drinks, and fine people watching.
Go get a korean scrub massage
Go grab a craft beer and a bucket of duck fat fries at Beer Belly
Go get Korean Shaved ice from Sul & Beans
Go shopping at Daiso (the best Japanese discount store for everything cute)
Go to Norebang/ Karaoke with a private room (its nice when you don’t have a audience of strangers looking at you)
Go get some authentic tacos at a taco truck
Go see a show at the Wiltern Theater
Go eat some ramen (i promise, you will like it!)
Go eat the whole Korean Fried chicken with a pitcher of beer at OB Bear (might need a couple friends to help you)