Big 6 Market

I love this place. It is my neighborhood market. I go here at least a few times a week. Their meat counter is great and the prices are fair. Try their guacamole, REALLY good! They don’t have the biggest selection of brands but they have most everything you need if you can’t make it to the grocery store or like me don’t feel like going to the grocery store. The employees are great, too.

Employees are very nice and they have a big selection of items but i give a 3star because its sooo expensive for basic things.

Very old school market, but it’s has some real history as this was across the street from the old car wash that was the movie location for the 1976 movie with Richard Prior call «Car Wash». The car wash is long gone but if you watch this old movie you can see this market in the background of many screen shots.

Not bad. Not bad at tall. Swashbuckling jalapeño sauce with a side of frozen fritter cake bobdooleepie. Roger. Over n’ out.

Really friendly staff, food selection is great for a convenience store prices are not bad either. I’ve started to use big 6 like a regular grocery store because it’s so close. The food and prices aren’t that good, but way better than 7 eleven

Big 6 Market is the sh*t! They have all the basics and a lot more. I love the look of it from the outside with the funky retro signage that is always complete with pigeons. Exactly as it looks in «Drive», although I was shopping here for months before I even saw that movie…
They have the most delicious & addictive guacamole and salsa. I make really awesome guac myself, but their version is convenient and SO yummy! I just picked up all the ingredients for a veggie stir-​fry (that turned out great) from Big 6. They have a large selection of inexpensive wine and beer and they’re open until 10pm daily. The staff is friendly & they have single mini Reece cups at the till so I can always get my choco-​peanut butter fix! Love this place!

The third pit stop on my «I Drive» tour was Big «6» Market. As I turned the corner on Wilshire and Rampart and the Big «6» marquee came into view; my first response was «this looks exactly like the movie» (
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— Exterior Full Frontal View (
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— Exterior Cockeyed View (
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— Exterior Side View (
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Big «6» was a key scene in the movie «Drive,» where Driver sees Irene and her son picking out groceries up and down the Big «6» isles. Later, in the parking lot, Irene and son are stranded in the parking lot with car problems, and Driver helps them out by driving them back to her apartment.
Big «6» looks like it has seen better days, but taking it for what it is; it serves as an ionic part in the movie. But more importantly, it plays an iconic part in everyday life for people who live in the Wilshire Center, Rampart Village, Westlake, and MacArthur Park areas. This little independent business «serves as» and «is» the local grocery store in da hood — as ghetto as it may be.
It has its own butcher shop that provides cuts customized for each of its customers, and provides all the necessities that one would need from dried goods, fruits, veggies, and liquor, to toiletries, and medicine.
— Interior Asle #1 View (
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— Interior Back View (
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— Interior Front View (
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From the other reviews, there was one item I had to try from here: The Guacamole (
). This was sold by the weight from the butcher’s counter. For a small container, it came out to be $ 2.50. When I opened up the container, I was surprised when I broke a tortilla chip on something hard in the middle of the dip. They left the seed in the container! All the Guac aficionados know that this is the trick to keep Guacamole fresh and reduces the browning effect. The only downside is that you’re paying for that seed weight as well. This stuff was extra spicy! Mixed with Serrano, cilantro, and lime, I can easily say that Big 6’s version of guacamole was worthy of being a descendent from the Aztecs. 4-​stars as it did not disappoint!
It was kinda surprising to see that they do not take EBT. Especially with all the character types that fill this place up. The guy behind me wanted my twenty when I pulled it out of my wallet, but the clerk quickly took it from me. So I have no idea what that was all about? I didn’t know how precious my $$ was.
I have to say that having experienced Big «6» in all its glory (inside and out), Choosing «6» was enough to satisfy, and experiencing «10» was completely unnecessary. ;D

This is the actual Big 6 Market that was in the movie «Drive» with Ryan Gosling. If you want to see what it is like, just rent the movie!

If you want a supermarket that is open late in this dirty part of town, the big six will serve you well. During my stint at the Wilshire Royale, I practically subsisted off this place. I always spoke Spanish with the clerks and they always answered me in English. I just look too white to hang with my Latin American brethren i guess. It was pretty funny.