Grill City

Love that they have family meals that for $ 22 you can feed a family of 4 with grilled meats and seafood. Best get here early for lunch or else the good vegetable dishes will be gone. Green jackfruit cooked in coconut milk is always a favorite. The Bopis is good too and the KareKare. A good place to take my non Filipino friends who want to try the cuisine I grew up with for a much more affordable price.

This is a fast and easy place to get a quick delicious meal everything is full of greasy flavor if you just want that delicious BBQ Filipino style. Also everything is around 5 to $ 8 I had a salmon skewer and it was a little over cooked but still hot and delicious it’s an open seating for a couple of the restaurants inside the seafood city and I think if I’m ever passing through and want a quick snack or a quick lunch for a decent price this is the place to go. They even let me sample a couple of weird things they had, I tried pork intestine on a skewer which was surprisingly good but I went ahead and got salmon next time I might try one of the grilled squids or tilapias.

Grill City is located in the Seafood City supermarket in the food court section of the store.
It’s the one eatery amongst the others that I seemed to had gravitated to because it was out in the open where you could see the food and they offered some pretty good stuff.
You order and eat in the common dining area shared by the various eateries in the court.
They serve the traditional dishes where you can get a one or two item entrée combo. I’ve only had the combo plates and the dishes were tasty enough. The one item combo I had was $ 4.99 before tax and came with two scoops of rice and a side of soup broth. I have tried the kare kare (beef and vegetables in peanut sauce) and dinuguan (chocolate meat) before and both were good enough.
They also have Filipino barbecue chicken kabobs and other items like liempo which is the grilled pork belly and fish items that are served on a banana leaf in the traditional Filipino style. Prices are very reasonable for what you get. I’ll have to try those plates sometime if I’m in the area again which I don’t know when that would be but I’m sure sometime in the not too distant future.
Check it out, life is an adventure :)

Not to be picky, but I’ve had better Filipino food. I’ve stopped here a couple of times while shopping to get some food. They have Filipino BBQ but it isn’t as sweet as I’m used to. The other entrees are pretty good and you can created a combo meal that includes a grilled entrée with rice and a classic entrée.
I came here once to place a huge order of BBQ for new year’s and they were surprised but accomodating. Since they did not have enough ready, I had to wait a bit, but it was ok. I shopped around and came up to pick it up later.
Overall, not bad for quick Filipino fast food, but they are better options for those who are very specific on how dishes should taste.

From poor customer service to mediocre foods, this place isn’t worth recommending!
PS. The flies were having a feast on their dining tables when we went there!

If you want grilled Filipino food items such as BBQ pork sticks and crispy pata, this is the place to go. They also have other popular Filipino dishes like pancit, palabok and lumpia if you are craving that as well.
The prices for their food is a little on the high side for a Filipino fast food restaurant but it’s good. They also have breakfast items but that tends to run out by mid-​morning.

Came here on a Thursday morning at 9:45am to be exact. I was starving and craving Filipino food. As I reach the counter, no greeting or whatsoever. Two girls and a boy working behind the counter should be fired! I suggest that they actually start doing their job in order to be there. Seriously typical horrible Filipino people! All they did was just chit chat, laugh loudly and flirt with each other! I’m writing this as I eat. This place sucks! It’s infected with flies! It’s disgusting! Definitely never coming back here.

Went to cash register, ready to order. Waited 5 minutes, no one came. There was a guy at the grill doing his job… No one behind the register to take my money. I look to my right, there are 2 grill city employees and 3 seafood city employees, eating and having a good time at a table. A few of them laughed when they saw me. No one wanted to take initiative to help me spend money.
I decided to to go to chow king instead… Was served in under 30 seconds with a warm smile from the young lady behind the register.
Based on this experience, I refuse to spend money at grill city from here on out.

Ive been telling all my non Filipino friends in LA that Grill City is the place to get a good sense of what Filipino cuisine is like. They serve a good spread of Filipino cuisine «crowd favorites» that generally taste great /​decent /​exactly how you expect it.
My favorite is their Pork BBQ (Filipino style needless to say). I would actually go as far as saying that I like their recipe more than anything I have tasted growing up in the Philippines. Its sweet. Its great. For me, this is their crowning glory.
When I went yesterday, I discovered that they serve different kinds of grilled stuff (i should have really thought of that when i read the name) and I was able to try their salmon skewer which was FUGGIN AMAZING. So good job for trying new things.
Here’s a couple of things to try, Im just gonna list the things that I like. You eat all of this with rice because thats how Filipinos do it.
Kare-​Kare: arguably my favorite Filipiino dish ever. Just because I have great memories associated with my grandfather’s recipe. The one from Grill City is decent, and tides my craving over. Kare Kare is a oxtail stew with a peanut sauce base. Make sure to get it with «Bagoong» or shrimp paste, you don’t want to know how its made (like … really) but i guarantee you that you CANNOT eat this dish without it.
Sinigang (na Baboy): Sinigang is a filipino soup dish that has a tamarind base. Its sour and amazing. The more sour it gets, the better it is in the Filipino palette. Usually served either with Pork (Baboy), Shrimp (Hipon) or Fish (Isda) as its main meat. I prefer the pork because i think the dish fulfills its maximum potential when its this meat. and the way the fat blends with the soup adds a different layer to the base. Make sure to get it with a lot of vegetables. and ask for «Gabi» which is basically taro if I am not mistaken to thicken the soup.
Liempo (Grilled Porkchop): Its grilled porkchops, usually slightly burned which makes it better. You eat this with tomatoes and filipino blend vinegar (with garlic and black pepper) even better with «Pinakurat» vinegar.
that will do for now. And don’t forget that Grill City has different branches everywhere across LA.

Price is good but the service was not. We were served with burnt food. Jessica one of the workers gave attitude towards us. This is not the first time we encountered this at this location. Not coming here again. I recommend the other location on Woodman.

Lemme tell you something. Fuck this place. Unilocal should allow negative stars. I ate here so long ago that I forgot that I never wanted to eat here again. Well damn the memory loss. It’s meatless Friday and I was starving so I went for the shrimp sinigang and stuffed bangus. Paid $ 13+ for a combo and Ube shake. Isn’t that a lot to begin with for food that’s been sitting there most of the day?
Anyway I asked how much for extra rice because she skimped on that. I was told it’s $ 1.25 for extra rice when most places give an extra scoop for free. Shit. $ 1.25?! Fuck THHHHAT. Thennn, I got to my table to discover the twit gave me two shrimp. Two. Fuck you two.
$ 13+ and I get two shrimp. I went back to complain and she questions the girl that served me if she in fact gave two. She didn’t wait for a reply when she probably realized how stupid it was to ask in the first place. Instead she reached for one shrimp. One fucking more.
Shrimp is the fucking essence of the dish. There should be 5 fucking shrimp swimming in the broth without me having to get up and complain about it. I didn’t want any trouble so I took it and began to peel. You know what it’s like when shrimp is stuck to the peels? Total disintegration. 3 obliterated shrimp…$ 13+. For that kinda money I coulda cooked dinner for 4 with a packet of Knorr and each motherfucker would’ve gotten 5 shrimp and all the motherfucking rice they could eat. As for the stuffed bangus? It was bland. The Ube shake had more flavor. And that reminds me of why I didnt want to eat here again. The food was bland, scarce, and overpriced.
So yeah. Fuck this place. Never again. And if you were smart, you wouldn’t ever either!
Fuck. This. Place.
Are we clear?
Crystal.

Service sucks and they are rude and food is just as bad as service. DO NOT COME HERE!!!

Came here for lunch and had the kare kare. The kare kare sauce was on the bland side and the meat consisted of 5% actual meat and 95% fat. There was a piece of «meat» that was purely just fat which I found disgusting.
I would avoid coming here for a meal.

The good (ordered BBQ sticks, lechon kawali, pancit, lumpia, and bichon) was all good and reasonably priced. The variety of other options, including dessert, was also good. There seemed to ample seating considering it was a food court-​type situation. I was okay with the service.

Ang sungit ng kahera!!! Even the food is a bit pricey. I just went to buy ready food for dinner but instead of buying more i just settled for a bbq. I just hate to see her b###hy face. Being tired from work is not an excuse to be grumpy specially if you are with a cusomer. Hope the owner will find a way to train these people… excuse me, I did beg for my food! Pinoy pa na man kayo, we are known to be hospitable and polite.

If you like burnt food and horrible service, then this is your paradise.
The grumpy bitch that worked the counter only knew one word, «no». Can we get a lunch combo? No, not until 10 (even though the food was already out). Can we get a combo with this and that… No, you have to buy them separately, a la carte. Do you ever smile? No.
Then you get to watch them cook the meats on the grill top they installed next to the steam tables. And you get to watch them burn the food… then find out it’s still raw in the middle.
I guess I can ask the counter girl one more question…“Will I ever come back… No.”

BAD SERVICE from SERVER named CHARICE!!! Food is hit and miss. Ate breakfast there last friday 7÷4÷14 with my family and the steam rice was like a day old rice — hard & dry! And the meat was so little! We were so DISSAPOINTED that we ended up eating again at a nearby Lee Lins. I love filipino food… but service sucks!!! I will go there again for their bbq and bopis… but not for breakfast!
P.s…i wish the PHOTOS here were as good and as many meat that were given to us.

We were on our way to LAX, but were craving some Filipino food before embarking on our big trip. We decided to stop in at the Seafood City Market food court area. There are several options here with Grill City being one of those choices.
This is what we ordered. Squid meal for $ 8.45. 1 skewer of Bbq Pork for $ 2.50. Grilled Liempo for $ 6.95. They were all quite tasty, and the portions were fair. Prices were reasonable as well.
The food is not going to «WOW» you, but we were pleased with the place. Grill City is a good solid choice for Filipino food if you are in the area. We also found it to be better than the Grill City branch in Panorama City.

Grill City is located inside the food court area of Seafood City Market (a filipino market).
I ordered a bbq chicken skewer, a two item combo with kare kare (ox tail stew) and dinuguan (pork blood stew with innards) and the total came out to $ 9.81. All the lunch items are served already cooked off of a steam table.
Chicken skewer was good, nicely bbq with just a touch of burnt carmelized edges on the meat, it was sweet and savory. I liked it.
Kare-​Kare was kinda bland tbh, it wasn’t bad, but unremarkable. It’s oxtail! it could’ve been much better.
Dinuguan, I thought this was a decent dinuguan, nice and savory with bits and pieces of lungs and intestines. Goes well with the rice.
I wish the food was served a bit hotter, but I also realize that if you crank up the heat too much all the food thats sitting out will dry out and then nobody will want to order it.
I’d come back, but if i did i’d probably try more of their grilled meat options, they have a pretty good variety of these.
I’d also probably order their fried chicken skin too. Artery clogging goodness :)

I agree with a lot of the reviews regarding quality of the food. It’s really very hit or miss. It’s a little step above turo-​turo places, but not by much. The pork inihaw and bbq is delicious. I also really enjoy their super sour sinigang. But other than that, it’s an ok place. This place could be so much better if the management really cared about the quality of the food. Want to eat a Filipino Restaurant where food quality and presentation is #1? Check out LA Rose Café in Hollywood, you won’t be sorry.