La Cienega Farmer’s Market

A small yet everything you need Local farmers market, love to come by here when I leave work early on Thursday and buy fresh produce, fish, the best of All Pizza! you can’t beat a Wood burning Oven fired Pepperoni Pie…

This place def makes me feel loved. So many vendors and I have devolved friendships. It’s small and local. The goat cheese lady is a must try! Her eccentricness sold me on the goat cheese tasting then the goat cheese sold me on the goat cheese. SO GOOD! Everything is pric

My number one spot for farm fresh fruit and herbs. They have Great produce coffee, honey, peanuts and all kind of skincare and other good things.

I love this market – great produce options and plenty of samples. Easy parking because it’s in the La Cienega Plaza.
The Soledad Goats Goat Cheese is amazing – if you love cheese, you have to stop here.
Crème Caramel has great samples and you HAVE to try the the ube upside down pie. It’s so expensive for a tiny little thing but you won’t mind once you’ve tried it.
I usually stop by the pupusa stand, too. They’re fresh and not so greasy. Be warned that the wait can be 10 – 20 minutes and they sometimes get orders wrong (maybe that’s just me?). Almost every week for months I would order a different pupusa + a squash pupusa and I never got a squash pupusa. It wasn’t a big deal – they were all delicious – but still, it was weird that the squash pupusa was so elusive. I think after 4 months I finally got to try it and it was delicious.
Also note that there isn’t a ton of seating here – that’s what this market really lacks.

Great market: lots of organics, friendly vendors, delicious produce, honey, goat cheese, and cooked foods! I always grab dinner here. Plus the Executive Director, Cynthia, runs a tight ship. High quality.

It was more cramped than I thought it would be; esp with those tugging along kids and strollers. i did not notice any seating area for those who bought food.
The pupusa place is pretty good tho the wait was about 15+ minutes; they make non-​greasy pupusas if you like that style.

The La Cirnega Farmers market is a small farmers market, but it’s growing. It’s right by my apartment, so I enjoy walking to it. The number of eateries has grown over the year I’ve been living in the area (wood fired pizza, pupusa’s, curry, tacos, etc), and there’s plenty of produce. I’m looking forward to seeing how this market evolves.

love this tiny farmers market with lots of organic produce, great prices and friendly vendors. It’s perfect for mid/​end of week refreshing and they show up on Thanksgiving! You have got to support this group of people who are humble enough to be different. Easy access, no frills and fresh food make this a great find.
No parking in the lot? No problem. There’s plenty of parking on streets nearby in the quiet neighborhood but be considerate of the residents and don’t trash the place or take up two spaces. Keep it good for the rest of us.

Perfect farmers market with a little bit of everything, all at great prices. Shout out to Gourmet on Wheels for the Jidori Chicken! Wow!

Lots of free samples to try! You could almost get full off of the many samples of fruits, cheese, desserts, pita bread and dips. I love the wide selections of fresh produce and plants. If you do get hungry, there are plenty of food booths that serves Chinese food, Korean food, Indian food, Mexican food and so much more! If you’re thirsty, the different booths also serve fresh drinks like mango lassi, various aqua Fresca, and lemonades. My favorite booth is the Crème Caramel LA which served bread pudding and flan. The ube flan is absolutely delicious! I highly recommend getting the ube flan which is definitely worth the $ 5.

The salad greens vendor (seemed like a family run operation) has been replaced by a new stall with more blatant organic advertising (looks like a farming co-​op). I’ll miss the old stall.
Homeboy Bakeries sells excellent baguettes and cinnamon raisin bread. I want to try their sourdough but they never seem to bring any to this market.

This is on the of tiniest farmers markets around. The parking is not too bad because it shares a parking lot with Ross and other stores. Besides being small, it’s basically like any other farmers market.
I feel like you see the same stuff at every farmer’s market.

I actually like this one than Culver City. This one is small and intimate. There’s a variety of food vendors. I can come, buy what I need browse quickly and leave. There has been days where it’s lonely and days when there’s people just packed. I come as often as I can. My kids enjoy it and I enjoy the walking and freebies.

What a great market — the first thing is that it goes until 7pm — how perfect is that? Most markets end well before people are off work, and for those of us with 9 to 5 jobs, this is a find. Second, it is walking distance from my house — so it gets a star for that alone.
Great selection of fruits and veggies, baked goods, hot stuff like hawaiian BBQ and tamales and a super relaxed and friendly vibe… great local market.

I like this farmers market mainly because of the time. It’s an afternoon/​evening thing, perfect for summer when it’s still warm after work. There’s a morning market down the street at the Kaiser.
They have an excellent middle eastern bread and dip; I think it’s Afghan in origin. They also have the Baba Foods hummus.
The produce here is excellent. I get kale and lettuce at good prices. A lot more citrus fruit than the other markets around here, and great prices.
Parking is pretty simple, since it’s in the corner of a mini mall with a Toy’s R Us, CVS, and Ross.

I love farmers markets. This particular one is a bit small compared to the Culver City one on Tuesdays, but it seems to have all of the basics. I wish it had a vendor that sells small potted herbs like in CC. Instead, the vendor here sells larger plants at higher prices.
I especially enjoy seeing the family that sells vegetables and berries and hearing them call out «Very sweet berries. Come get your extra sweet strawberries.» It completes the whole market experience.
I hope this particular market wasn’t affected by the whole farmers market controversy, where some vendors were selling imported produce packaged as locally grown and at higher locally grown prices.

Big fan of this market!
First of all it starts at 3 and goes til 7 This makes it a very nice late afternoon, not too hot, late summer thing.
It is small. this is also awesome in my opinion. It has oodles of parking, even though it is always very crowded. It accepts food stamps which i think is just awesome because most food stamp programs restrict what a recipient can buy (meaning, no organic milk, no organic vegetables).
The farmers have great produce, there is a little over lap and competition but there aren’t 15 tomato growers to slog through.
Other highlights:
Pupusas! Very tasty authentic Salvadorean pupusas (well, i think they’re authentic, but they come with more spicy stuff than normal, but i just mean they aren’t like corn and crab pupusas with aioli.)
The chicken lady sells the freshest chicken, eggs and very affordable quail eggs!
The fruit is awesome.
the cake guys at the end get me every time. Lemon bundt cake. yum.

This farmer’s market is on the small side, but its ALWAYS packed. I was super excited to find that Bolani Foods had a tent there. We first encountered Bolani at a farmers market in Tracy, CA. When I spotted it at my local farmers market, I almost literally, jumped for joy!
The spinach bolani is so flavorful — it doesn’t even taste like its bad for you. The garlic mint cheese is refreshing, light and so friggin tasty I can’t handle it. It’s hard not to eat the whole thing. Check it out. Have some samples and TRY not to buy something.
I also really enjoy the table of aguas frescas. I get a large watermelon juice to take home to my husband as a sugary and summery treat.

Like a determined weed, this little farmers market manages to sprout up from the concrete week after week. On a busy stretch of La Cienega & 18^th St, it’s one of the smaller and less glamorous farmers markets in LA and lasts for just a few afternoon hours every Thursday, but they have all of the essentials covered making it a perfect late lunch or early work eve stop to get everything you need for the weekend ahead. Plenty of seasonal fresh fruit and veg vendors, some tasty tamales, a sausage dude, orchids, fresh baked bread and an absolutely awesome fish guy I rarely see at any of the other markets.
All that and plenty of parking in the adjoining Toys R’Us lot and a Wells Fargo ATM smack dab in the middle of the action in case you run outta cash. What more could ya ask for?

Wow! What a great little farmers’ market I might never have discovered without Unilocal!
This is a small market in the parking lot of the CVS/​Smart & Final/​Staples/​etc. at 18^th and La Cienega. It’s not by any means large– there are maybe 20 stalls, selling prepared foods, produce, plants, cheese, bread and fish. They have my favorite bread vendor (Les Delices du Four Bread)– their sliced sourdough will rock your socks off, and their fish vendor has some seriously well priced critters– most seemed to be under $ 10/​lb (and he even takes credit card!).
The La Cienega Farmers’ Market, unlike many area markets, actually seems to cater to everyone in the community. Prices here are competitive with the conventional grocers, and definitely beats Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. Gargantuan bunches of cilantro at 50 cents a pop even rival the ethnic markets! Most vendors had signs up about taking WIC or EBT. As such, the customers at this market were a far more diverse bunch than I am used to seeing in my local markets, and that pleased me very much.
Now, I will say that the produce selection is not as extensive as other markets– on this late July day, I couldn’t find a single non-​green bell pepper. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a poor man’s market by any means– there were zillions of varieties of conventional and organic heirloom tomatoes, lettuces, herbs, stone fruits, and so on. I was able to find shallots here ($ 3/​lb), when I was unable to do so at my local Culver City market on Tuesday.
I am frankly thrilled with my latest farmers’ market discovery, and I look forward to visiting many more times in the future. Thursdays from 3 pm to 7.