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Food influencers in Los Angeles: 43 Instagram creators, measured (2026)

43 Instagram food creators whose bio names Los Angeles, each with followers, engagement rate and Reel views we measured. The median one has 29.6K followers and a 2.37% engagement rate.

This page lists 43 Instagram creators whose bio names Los Angeles and who post mostly about food, with the follower count, engagement rate and median Reel views we measured for each one. Virev's crawler read their profiles and recent posts between August 29, 2026 and September 24, 2026. The median creator here has 29,624 followers and an engagement rate of 2.37%, which is below the 2.56% median across the 65 lists in this series and ranks 46th of 65.

43

Creators measured

Individual Instagram creators with 1,000+ followers and 6+ recent posts.

29.6K

Median followers

Half of the creators on this page have more, half fewer.

2.37%

Median engagement rate

Average likes plus comments per post, divided by followers.

Food creators in Los Angeles by follower count

Micro accounts (10K to 100K followers) are the largest group, at 17 of 43 creators, or 40%. Nano creators get the highest median engagement rate, 4.33%, against 1.59% for mid-tier creators, so a typical nano post draws 2.7 times the response per follower. Reach grows with size, and the median mid-tier creator's Reels get 38,996 views, against 4,174 for nano creators.

FollowersCreatorsMedian engagement rateMedian Reel views
Nano (1K to 10K)104.33%4,174
Micro (10K to 100K)172.43%8,497
Mid-tier (100K to 1M)161.59%38,996

The 20 biggest food creators in Los Angeles

These are the largest accounts on the list, sorted by followers at our read. The biggest is Cynthia Jimenez with 811,592 followers and a 1.67% engagement rate.

CreatorFollowersEngagement rateMedian Reel viewsCategory
Cynthia Jimenez812K1.67%140KFood & cooking
Belinda Gonzalez | Mexican Food754K1.86%163KMexican food and recipe content
Pete557K0.27%32.1KFood and cooking
Erick Labra489K0.61%32.1KFood and cooking
nameless.james484K0.77%29.6KLifestyle
Brandon Gouveia455K1.84%42.2KFood & beverage
Lawrence Kim327K0.54%62.3Kfood and dining
Saucymarco274K20.49%266KFood and family lifestyle
Chef pop’s236K6.50%89.2KFood and cooking
Saeng Douangdara213K1.11%35.2KFood and cookbook authorship
Jeanelle 🥭 Food & Travel188K1.46%12.2KFood and travel
MIS O มิโซะ184K1.51%127KFood and dining
To-Tam Sachika Roberts | Mommy & Wifey Tings158K2.37%35.8KFood and family lifestyle
TheCurlDon135K3.67%11.4Kfood and dining
tuyen | baking content creator132K5.38%90.1KBaking and recipe content
Tinger (Ting Hseih) 💕 Food | Travel | Culture129K0.21%4.9KFood
Lisa Eats LA92.3K0.70%14.0KFood and dining
Maryanne Cabrera84.8K0.28%8.9KBaking and dessert recipes
Los Angeles Foodie ➡️ By: Jo Sexton78.9K0.16%3.5KFood and dining
@loculize_la55.8K2.43%72.4KLos Angeles food and dining

12 high-engagement food creators in Los Angeles with 10K to 100K followers

These are the 12 creators with 10,000 to 100,000 followers and the highest engagement rates on the list. The median across all 17 creators in that range is 2.43%, and 2 of these 12 reach at least twice that. We also left out one creator with no measured Reel views, or whose average likes and comments beat their median Reel views, since we could not check that rate against reach. A high rate can also come from comment prompts, so open a few recent posts before you reach out.

CreatorFollowersEngagement rateMedian Reel viewsCategory
Dana Kuritzkes24.5K10.13%11.7KFood and dining
ρ. ρ σ ѕ н24.2K9.26%10.0KFood and dining content
Nelly Salomon • Los Angeles, CA29.6K3.76%12.5KLos Angeles food, travel and local lifestyle discovery
Cat | Food, Travel, Lifestyle17.0K3.62%3.6KFood and restaurant discovery
Dining with Damian | LA Foodie14.0K3.13%6.2KFood and dining
Aya - LA, OC Socal influencer10.9K3.06%642food and dining
LosAngelesGoodEats18.5K2.53%8.1KLos Angeles food and restaurant discovery
Ralphie22.2K2.35%2.4KPets
⭐️Camila Suarez⭐️29.4K2.17%10.0KTeen lifestyle and social content
SoCal Foodie • LA | OC11.8K1.36%3.3KFood and restaurant discovery
Camly Nguyen42.6K1.32%9.7KFood and local dining
Stefanie Stevens | Vegan Living in Los Angeles 🌴20.5K0.71%1.9KVegan food and lifestyle

What food creators in Los Angeles post about

The most common profile category is Food and dining, on 6 accounts (14% of those with a category), followed by Food and cooking with 3. The category is the one the creator or Virev's profile reader set, so treat it as a starting filter.

Instagram categoryCreatorsMedian engagement rate
Food and dining62.32%
Food and cooking30.61%
food and dining33.06%
Lifestyle24.67%
Food and family lifestyle211.43%
Food216.93%
Food and restaurant discovery22.49%
Food & cooking11.67%

How we built this list

  1. We started from 39,669 individual Instagram creators with at least 1,000 followers and 6 measured posts, read by Virev's crawler between August 18 and October 7, 2026. Brands, media pages and businesses are not on the list.
  2. A creator is on this page when their Instagram bio or display name names Los Angeles, such as a city, a region or a flag, and the country in their Virev profile does not name another country. We removed accounts that name the place only inside another account's handle, an email address, or a team or event name, such as a baseball club or a marathon.
  3. The engagement rate is average likes plus comments on the 6 to 12 most recent feed posts, divided by followers at the read.
  4. Median Reel views is the median play count of the creator's last 12 Reels, and it shows n/a when fewer than 3 Reels had a play count. 39 of the 43 creators have one.
  5. These 43 creators were read between August 29, 2026 and September 24, 2026, and follower counts move after that, so check the live profile before you send an offer.
  6. The page shows public profile numbers only, with no emails or phone numbers.

More creator lists

Lists built the same way: Fashion influencers in Los Angeles, Influencers in Los Angeles, Influencers in the US, Influencers in California, Food influencers in Chicago, Food influencers in Houston. Related reading: Food influencers on Instagram, NYC influencers. For hand-picked lists with a recent post per creator, see micro and nano influencers.

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