The Slower days in LA – Where to eat, where to shop and what to do.

Welcome! Iโ€™m Ran, your favorite K-Mom friend.

Blending my Korean roots with everyday mom life, I love sharing practical tips, K-mom recipes, self-care routines, and family moments that inspire joy and balance. ๐Ÿ’›

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ K-๋ง˜ ํ”„๋ Œ๋“œ, ๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์ผ์˜ ์—„๋งˆ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ํŒ, K-๋ง˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ, ์…€ํ”„์ผ€์–ด ๋ฃจํ‹ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›

This week, weโ€™re in Los Angeles, the city where I spent most of my 20s and 30s. LA is my hometown at heart โ€” itโ€™s where my parents live and where so many memories were made and where me & David met.

I came back this time to help take care of my dad during his eye surgery (which went well! ๐Ÿ™) and to spend some precious time with my parents and Leo. Between hospital visits and family time, I also revisited a few of my favorite LA spots that always make me feel nostalgic. Iโ€™d love to share them with you.

์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•œ ์ฃผ๋Š” LA์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. LA๋Š” ์ œ ๋งˆ์Œ์† ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ด์ž, ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์ด ์‚ด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๊ณ , ์ €์™€ ๋ฐ์ด๋น—์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๊ณณ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ด์š”. ๐Ÿ’›

์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์•„๋น ์˜ ๋ˆˆ ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ๋•๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์–ด์š” (๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์€ ์•„์ฃผ ์ž˜ ๋˜์…จ์–ด์š”! ๐Ÿ™), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๋ ˆ์˜ค์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณ‘์›๊ณผ ์ง‘์„ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์ž ๊น์”ฉ ์งฌ์ด ๋‚  ๋•Œ, ์˜ˆ์ „์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” LA ์žฅ์†Œ๋“ค๋„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๊ทธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”.

๐Ÿ“ The Roof โ€” EDITION Hotel

I absolutely love this place.
Itโ€™s a rooftop bar at the EDITION Hotel on Sunset Blvd with a stunning panoramic view of LA. The hotel itself is beautifully designed โ€” high ceilings, marble floors, dark wooden furniture, and rich velvet green curtains in the lobby. Even the lobby scent is dreamy. When you walk in, you feel like you are in Hollywood movie.

Once you go up to the rooftop, youโ€™re greeted with a breathtaking view and a chic bar area thatโ€™s perfect for golden hour drinks. I used to bring friends here whenever they visited LA, and every single time, it was magical.

โœจ My order this time: ceviche and a chicken sandwich โ€” both were delicious.
๐Ÿธ Cocktails here are amazing, and the dessert menu is worth trying too (especially the ceviche, if you love fresh flavors).

์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ์˜ˆ์š”.
์„ ์…‹ ๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋ฐ”๋“œ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ **์—๋””์…˜ ํ˜ธํ…”(EDITION Hotel)**์˜ ๋ฃจํ”„ํƒ‘ ๋ฐ”๋กœ, LA ์ „๊ฒฝ์ด ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๋‚ด๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•ด์š”.

ํ˜ธํ…” ๋กœ๋น„๋Š” ๋†’์€ ์ฒœ์žฅ, ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์„ ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ, ์ง™์€ ์›๋ชฉ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ, ๋ฒจ๋ฒณ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ์ปคํŠผ์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์„ธ๋ จ๋œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๋กœ๋น„์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ๋งˆ์น˜ ํ• ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๋“œ ์˜ํ™” ์† ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด์— ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด๋ž„๊นŒ์š”.

๋ฃจํ”„ํƒ‘์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋ˆˆ์•ž์— ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋Š” ํƒ ํŠธ์ธ ๋ทฐ์™€ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฐ” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด์—์š”. ์˜ˆ์ „์—” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด LA์— ๋†€๋Ÿฌ์˜ฌ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ผญ ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์˜ฌ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋Š˜ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”.

โœจ ์ด๋ฒˆ์— ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•œ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด: ์„ธ๋น„์ฒด์™€ ์น˜ํ‚จ ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜ โ€” ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿธ ์นตํ…Œ์ผ๋„ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ณ , ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋„ ๊ผญ ์ถ”์ฒœ๋“œ๋ ค์š”! (ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒํผํ•œ ์„ธ๋น„์ฒด๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅ ์ถ”์ฒœ!)

๐Ÿ“ Bottega Louie

This is my go-to spot for picking up gifts for friends and family. The interior and packaging design always remind me of Wes Andersonโ€™s The Grand Budapest Hotel โ€” colorful, whimsical, and elegant.

I love admiring the pastry display โ€” all the cakes and desserts look like little art pieces. My favorite thing to buy here is their beautifully packaged chocolates and sweets. Theyโ€™re a little pricey, but totally worth it.

The only downside? Iโ€™ve noticed their gift selection getting smaller each time I visit, which makes me a little sad. ๐Ÿ˜ข

๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด๋‚˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ค„ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋•Œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด์—์š”.
์ด๊ณณ์˜ ์ธํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์–ด์™€ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ๋””์ž์ธ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์›จ์Šค ์•ค๋”์Šจ ๊ฐ๋…์˜ ์˜ํ™” <๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ถ€๋‹คํŽ˜์ŠคํŠธ ํ˜ธํ…”> ์† ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์•„์š” โ€” ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌํ’€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํด๋ž˜์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ์•„ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ.

์ง„์—ด๋œ ์ผ€์ดํฌ์™€ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ด์ ธ์š”. ์ž‘์€ ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ ๋ฐ”๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋œ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์‚ด์ง ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•„์‰ฌ์šด ์ ์€, ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ธฐํ”„ํŠธ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ์ค„์–ด๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด์—์š”. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์‚ด์ง ์Šฌํސ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ˜ข

๐Ÿ“ LACMA

Of course, no LA trip is complete without stopping by this iconic photo spot. Iโ€™ve passed by LACMA so many times before, but this time I finally went to take pictures with Leo.

We arrived around 6 PM, just in time for that perfect pink sky backdrop. Leo and I played hide-and-seek between the lamp posts, and he had the best time. I love how the photos captured his joy so naturally.

๐Ÿ“ธ Tip: If youโ€™re not planning to visit the museum itself, try to find nearby street parking. The parking lot costs $23 for the day, even if you only stay an hour.

LA์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ํฌํ†  ์ŠคํŒŸ์ด์ฃ .
์ „์—๋Š” ๋Š˜ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ๋ ˆ์˜ค์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ์œผ๋Ÿฌ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ ๋“ค๋ €์–ด์š”.

์ €๋… 6์‹œ์ฏค ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ•˜๋Š˜์ด ํ•‘ํฌ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์€ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
๋ ˆ์˜ค์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋“ฑ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ˆจ๋ฐ”๊ผญ์งˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋†€์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ ˆ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์† ๋ ˆ์˜ค์˜ ํ‘œ์ •์ด ์ •๋ง ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ์„œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ธ Tip: ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ทผ์ฒ˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ฒœ๋“œ๋ ค์š”. LACMA ์ฃผ์ฐจ์žฅ์€ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„๋งŒ ์„ธ์›Œ๋„ ์ผ์ผ ์š”๊ธˆ $23์ด์—์š”! ๐Ÿ˜…

๐Ÿ“the Grove

One of the most popular outdoor shopping malls in the heart of LA, The Grove is the perfect place to soak in that classic LA vibe. ๐ŸŒดโœจ
At the center of the mall, thereโ€™s a beautiful fountain, surrounded by chic restaurants and stylish shops that make it such a fun place to stroll around.

If youโ€™re visiting with kids, donโ€™t miss the trolley ride โ€” itโ€™s a charming little experience that makes the day even more special for families. ๐Ÿ’›

LA์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์•ผ์™ธ ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ์ด์—์š”.
๋ชฐ ์ค‘์•™์—๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋ถ„์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—๋Š” ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์ด ์ฆ๋น„ํ•ด์š”.
์•„์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜๋ผ๋ฉด **ํŠธ๋กค๋ฆฌ(์ „์ฐจ)**๋ฅผ ํƒ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š”!
LA ํŠน์œ ์˜ ์—ฌ์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋А๋ผ๊ธฐ์— ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ์žฅ์†Œ์˜ˆ์š”. ๐ŸŒดโœจ

๐Ÿ“ Erewhon

Probably the most hyped grocery store in LA โ€” and for good reason!
This time, I visited the Grove location, which felt a bit more spacious and relaxed compared to the Silverlake one.

If you go, you have to try their famous smoothies. Yes, theyโ€™re about $19โ€“20 each (!!) but honestly, totally worth the hype. I tried the Hailey Bieber Strawberry Glaze Smoothie and the Malibu Mango Smoothie, and both were absolutely delicious. ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฅญ

Erewhon is also known for its health supplements and clean-living lifestyle products, and I always end up browsing their shelves for way too long. Their merch is another favorite of mine โ€” simple, minimal, and effortlessly stylish. This time, I picked up a 20oz tumbler and a bag of Erewhon coffee to try at home.

And can we talk about the people there? Everyone shopping at Erewhon looks so effortlessly chic โ€” I love people-watching and getting little fashion inspo while sipping on my smoothie. โœจ

์•„๋งˆ LA์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ•ซํ•œ ๊ทธ๋กœ์„œ๋ฆฌ ์Šคํ† ์–ด์ผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š” โ€” ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ฃ !
์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ๋” ๊ทธ๋กœ๋ธŒ(The Grove) ์ง€์ ์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‹ค๋ฒ„๋ ˆ์ดํฌ์ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ข€ ๋” ๋„“๊ณ  ์—ฌ์œ ๋กœ์šด ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์˜€์–ด์š”.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๋จน์–ด๋ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์Šค๋ฌด๋””!
๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์•ฝ $19~20 ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ฝค ๋น„์‹ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ์†”์งํžˆ ๊ทธ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ํ—ค์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋น„๋ฒ„ ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ ๊ธ€๋ ˆ์ด์ฆˆ ์Šค๋ฌด๋””์™€ ๋ง๋ฆฌ๋ถ€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์Šค๋ฌด๋””๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์…”๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฅญ

์—๋ ˆ์›์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์‹ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ํด๋ฆฐ ๋ผ์ดํ”„์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด์š”. ์ง„์—ด๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ , **๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ธ๋ จ๋œ ๋จธ์น˜(merch)**๋“ค๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ๋ป์š”.
์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” 20oz ํ…€๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ์™€ ์—๋ ˆ์› ์ปคํ”ผ ํ•œ ๋ด‰์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€ โ€” ์ด๊ณณ์— ์˜ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ ธ์š”.
์Šค๋ฌด๋””๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ํŒจ์…˜์„ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํŒจ์…˜ ์˜๊ฐ์ด ์ƒ˜์†Ÿ๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด์—์š”. โœจ

Which place is your favorite spot in Los Angeles? ๐Ÿ’›
There are still so many places I wanted to visit, but time was too short to fit them all in this trip. Hopefully next time!

I hope you guys enjoyed reading my LA post โ€” if you have any other recommendations or hidden gems, please share them in the comments below. Iโ€™d love to check them out on my next visit. โœจ
Thanks so much for reading! ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿ’›

์–ด๋””๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ณณ ์ •๋ง ๋” ๋งŽ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ์ผ์ •์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋นก๋นกํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ค ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋„ค์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค์Œ์—” ๊ผญ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”!

ํฌ์ŠคํŒ… ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๊ฒŒ ์ฝ์œผ์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ์—˜์—์ด์— ์ˆจ์€ ๋ง›์ง‘์ด๋‚˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ ์žฅ์†Œ ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”, ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜๋ ค๊ตฌ์š”~ ์ฝ์–ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

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