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Bodega Park
A Silver Lake sandwich counter blending NYC bodega classics with Korean and LA roots.
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Reasons to check it out
- Ranked the second-best sandwich shop in America by Food & Wine
- Run by the same team behind Black Hogg, the gastropub that previously occupied this address
- Menu leans on the chopped cheese and a pork bulgogi sandwich, not a generic deli case
- 4.6 stars across 251 Google reviews, with specific sandwiches named and praised repeatedly
“A chopped cheese is a New York thing. Doing it well in Silver Lake, next to a bulgogi sandwich, is the actual idea here.”
— STEFAN
Bodega Park sits where Black Hogg, a chef-driven gastropub, used to run — same ownership, new concept, built around the New York bodega sandwich rather than small plates. The shift shows in the name on their own Instagram handle, still @blackhoggsandwiches, a small detail that reads like an inside joke about the pivot rather than an oversight.
A real bodega sandwich, with a Korean accent
The chopped cheese is the anchor, but the menu runs it alongside a pork bulgogi sandwich and Peruvian-style chicken breakfast burritos — the owners' Korean and LA backgrounds layered onto a New York format rather than a straight import. Food & Wine ranked it the second-best sandwich shop in the country, a real trade-press call rather than a listicle blurb.
Google's 251 reviews put it at 4.6 stars, and recent visitors name actual sandwiches rather than giving a vague thumbs-up. One reviewer, a month before this writing, singled out the chopped cheese and "basic" turkey sandwich both; another, six months before, called the bacon-egg-and-cheese and bulgogi pork "amazing" on the same visit.
Sources: Google Maps — Bodega Park listing and reviews, The Infatuation — Bodega Park review, LAist — Cheap Fast Eats, Silver Lake Edition, Fox 11 LA — Los Angeles deli named among America's best by Food & Wine
