In the market there is lots of seating. If you don't see anything right away, look for the stairs near the BBQ place and follow them up for more seating--which includes tables for bigger groups. Restaurants and shops are mixed together, so do a loop of the whole place if this is your first visit as there is a ton of variety.
I went with a group of 5 and each of us ate somewhere different. I have been there before, so I already knew what I wanted, but I still took a walk around just in case. I ended up going to my old favorite Moishe's Restaurant where I got a lamb gyro and the potato salad. The gyro here is better than any other I have had in LA. The meat is moist, it comes loaded with sauce, and the tomatoes and onions are fresh (from the market I bet). The gyro comes with 2 pitas on the side. The potato salad is extra and expensive but so delicious I can never pass it up. My food was about $10. I also went to a Gill's Old Fashioned Ice Cream where they have soft serve ice cream and a variety of drinks. I love their fresh squeezed limeade which combines a lot of lime flavor with just enough sugar. The limeade is very refreshing when it is hot out.
The other diners I was with split up too. One went to the Gumbo Pot for some jambalaya that looked good and came in a large portion along with salad and cornbread. Another went to the Singapore's Banana Leaf, an Indonesian restaurant tucked away in the back row of the market. She ordered a rice dish as well as something called roti which is like a thin sweet pancake which we dipped in some kind of curry sauce. Her meal was huge--enough for maybe 2 or 3 and only cost $7. Another girl had Korean BBQ which was huge and looked like your typical korean bbq. The last person with us went to Deano's Gourmet Pizza restaurant for some alfredo pasta. The pasta came in a tiny bowl and was about $6 but she ended up not being able to finish it because it was so rich and filling. Some people next to us got the pizza from D'amores and it looked absolutely amazing.
On the way out I stopped at a Thee's Continental Bakery for some marzipan bones. These are small chocolate cakes covered in green marzipan and a little chocolate coating on the end. The marzipan is high quality and has that European taste to it. Nobody else got dessert this time but were eying the cakes and pies at Dupar's and the funnel cakes at the Country Bakery (related to Thee's).
In short, there's no way to leave the market with an empty stomach. There are a variety of choices and almost all of them are delicious.
LA Farmer's Market
6333 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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