Is The Grove & Original Farmers Market worth it with kids?
Worth itWith kids
With kids, The Grove & Original Farmers Market works.
Two places sharing a block. The real reason to come is the adjacent Original Farmers Market, a 1934 maze of open-air food stalls and counters — Mexican, Cajun gumbo, fresh-cut doughnuts, old-school butchers — with genuine, slightly worn LA character. The Grove itself is a polished, unabashedly commercial open-air mall with a dancing fountain and a trolley; pleasant and easy, but the kind of upscale outdoor mall you've seen everywhere. Treat the Farmers Market as the destination and the mall as the low-effort add-on.