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This guy ate 100 burgers across SoCal. Here are his top Long Beach picks.

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Luca Servodio—the guy behind LA Countdown—has spent the past several years eating 100 specific dishes across Los Angeles County. Here are his picks for the best Long Beach burgers.
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The Attic expands happy hour in Long Beach with $7 cocktails, mocktails, highballs, and more

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The Attic's expanded happy hour—featuring a genuinely stellar array of $7 cocktails, mocktails, highballs...—makes 2026 feel, at the very least, slightly less dark.
Food & Drink

Lima Cebichería—one of the best Peruvian spaces in the region—expands lunch in Long Beach

Lima Cebichería Peruana in Bixby Knolls is expanding its lunch offerings with weekly specials.
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Lucky Chopsticks closes; Terrible Burger scores spot at Smorgasburg; more

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.
Food & Drink

Viaje is one of Long Beach’s best (and its most underrated) Mexican restaurant

Viaje is in its pocket with attitude, finesse, and a Mexican culinary experience that no other Long Beach space offers.
Food & Drink

Sal’s Gumbo Shack to shutter Bixby Knolls space, keep North Long Beach shop open

Sally Bevans, the owner of the beloved Sal's Gumbo Shack in Long Beach, has decided to close her Bixby Knolls location.
Cultural Currents
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Culture & Commentary

Closures. Menu cuts. Nixed hours: Casual Long Beach restaurants feel the grip of a rich person’s economy

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Casual Long Beach restaurants are, well, going through it. And 2026 is going to be the most challenging year yet.
Culture & Commentary

Food, culture, art, Long Beach: Top Longbeachize stories of 2025

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When it comes to cultural and urban happenings in the city, 2025 was a banner year—hence these incredible Long Beach stories.
Culture & Commentary

A new generation: Joe Jost’s sells to Long Beach native, former employee

For the first time in its history, Joe Jost's founding family is parting ways to let Jon Sweeney take over as owner.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach’s love of special dinners—collabs, tasting menus, and more—is altering the food scene

Special dinners are popping up consistently around Long Beach, offering diners a distinctly unique perspective on where our food scene is and where it is going.
Development & Urbanism
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Urbanism & Development

Long Beach Amphitheater breaks ground; first show to come June 6

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The Long Beach Amphitheater will officially break ground on Wednesday, Jan. 13—and with it, create the largest live entertainment venue in the city.
Urbanism & Development

How Intertrend and CSULB students are giving Long Beach’s DoLy’s Delectables resources to move into the future

This is the story of how marketing firm Intertrend and Cal State Long Beach interior design students came together to help move DoLy's Delectables into the future.
Urbanism & Development

Portico residential project on Promenade in Long Beach to break ground this month

It is now called Portico—formerly dubbed the Jefferson—in Downtown Long Beach. And—following the securing of a $150M loan—Dallas- and SoCal-based JPI said it will break ground on its project this month.
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Events & Festivals

Ten Mile’s stacked lineup for Cajun Food Fest 2026: Battambong BBQ, Shady Grove Foods, Sal’s Gumbo Shack, SnoCorner

Brian Addison
Cajun Food Fest 2026 is coming Feb. 7 to Ten Mile Brewing, Long Beach—and its lineup is stacked.
Events & Festivals

ISM Brewing turns two: Three days of beer, community, and Long Beach talent

Brian Addison
ISM Brewing's second anniversary is shaping up to be a full-throttle showcase of why it has become such a fixture the beer scene.
Events & Festivals

Ornament making, snow, shopping, sipping: Clay on First’s ‘Jingle All the Clay’ is a DTLB holiday gem

Brian Addison
Jingle All the Clay returns to Downtown Long Beach as one of the city’s most charming and hands-on holiday traditions.
Events & Festivals

Unlimited barbecue. 8 whiskey tastings. Smoke & Oak comes to DTLB—all for charity

Brian Addison
Long Beach’s BBQ community will unite once again on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, for Smoke & Oak: A Fall BBQ & Whiskey Affair, a seasonal celebration of smoked meats, craft whiskey, and local hospitality.

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