Now Serving is Los Angeles' only cookbook and culinary shop. It is a beautiful, cute, and clean little bookstore that looks small but is packed with goodies. The shop offers a stellar selection of amazing cookbooks, with a variety and excellent choice of titles. It also carries some cooking implements, utensils, choice ingredients, and other misc. items like cute tote bags. The owners and staff are so sweet, knowledgeable, helpful, and thoughtful, providing trustworthy recommendations. They are known for doing so much for the culture. The store offers convenient services like shipping. It is a fun stop where you could easily spend an hour, sometimes featuring events like book signings. Los Angeles is lucky to have this neat place.
Always appreciate curation and specificity. In this case, everything is cooking/food related and they had some products that I'd been looking for (cooking handsoap, etc.).
October 2025
Interesting, eclectic collection of cookbooks. Tucked away in the Far East Plaza building in downtown LA's Chinatown, the book store is small, comfortable and very cool. The staff are friendly and knowledgeable. Limited street parking but there is a pay parking lot next door.
February 2025
Now Serving is wonderful for home cooks and chefs alike 🌟 Nancy was super helpful and fun to chat with as I looked through their massive collection!
