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Baby Gee, for the third year in a row, recognized by prestigious Spirited Awards
Known as the bar world’s Oscars, Baby Gee is named one of the Top 10 best bars in the West for the second year in a row, following their best new bar recognition back in 2023 by the Spirited Awards.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: A chopped cheese shop finally opens; Ono Hawaiian BBQ coming; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Urbanism & Development
Work on 300 Alamitos Ave. senior living space in Long Beach officially starts
Crews are expected actually to break ground by the end of this week on a senior housing development at 300 Alamitos Ave.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Olive & Rose shutters bagel concept; Lazy Dough previews; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Once again, Long Beach’s Gusto is a finalist for prestigious James Beard award
Long Beach’s Gusto bakery, the Latin American-centric space that overtly overthrows Eurocentric ideals when it comes to baked goods, has officially become a finalist for...
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Long Beach’s BLACK Bar to shutter end of April; sold to owners of Breakfast Bar
BLACK Bar Long Beach will be shuttering at the end of April, marking an end to the women-owned space that has defined the corner of Broadway and Hermosa Avenue for nearly a decade.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Due Fiori to open Mar. 26; multiple other openings; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Black-owned Mangiafoglie is a welcomed addition to a dwindling Long Beach vegan scene
Mangiafolie, Chef Paul Reese's first dive into the world of restaurants after running a vegan pizza popup, has officially opened its doors on 4th.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 2025
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Food & Drink
Chef behind Waldo’s Pizza to take over Due Fiori space in Long Beach
Waldo's Pizza will be hosting its last popup at this weekend's upcoming "bar-mers" market at Port City Tavern for Long Beach Last Call.
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Long Beach’s Breakfast Bar has an early morning Walk of Shame happy hour. And it’s awesome.
The Breakfast Bar has an amazing, seven-days-a-week happy hour from 6AM and 8AM at both its locations.
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The Stache continues its evolution as Long Beach’s most distinct kinda-specialty-still-divey spaces
The Stache Bar on 4th Street has long been a staple—but it is also kind of forgotten as to why it has been a staple in the first place. They're changing that.
Urbanism & Development
With shades up, Junipero Beach Sports Court—roller rink included—set to open Feb. 22
On Saturday, Sept. 14 at 11AM, the public is invited to Junipero Beach, located at 2630 E. Ocean Blvd., to witness the ribbon cutting for the Junipero Beach Sports Court.
Food & Drink
Hartland’s—with some of Long Beach’s best views—opens for late lunch and dinner
Hartland's dinner and late lunch menu will kick off next Wednesday, Feb. 5 at the 1900 Ocean building.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Syrian space opens in Wrigley; Knead in Signal Hill moves forward; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach bar O’Connell’s has been serving 4th Street for over 90 years
To understand Long Beach's love of drinking is to understand O'Connell's on 4th Street where it meets Temple Avenue.
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Mangiafolie—the 4th Street Southern Italian vegan space—will soft open on Jan. 22
Mangiafolie, the vegan space dedicated to Southern Italian cuisine and pastries, is soft opening Jan. 22 at 8AM.
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Ellie’s new lunch prix fixe menu lets you eat a three-course dinner for lunch prices
Ellie's newly minted lunch prix fixe menu is one of the many ways the Alamitos Beach staple is trying to better cater to all aspects of its community.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: El Viejón—taking over Congregation space—soft opens; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sugar Taco closes; Recreational Coffee introduces booze, late hours; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Dec. 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Food & Drink
Breakfast Dreams—Long Beach’s most underrated breakfast popup—has new residency at Salud
Chef Josh Haskal's Breakfast Dreams is back in Long Beach with a regular residency at Salud on 4th Street.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown open late on Friday, Saturday; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Meet Anne Bergstedt, the alleged Long Beach rental scam artist whose cover is being blown
Anne Bergstedt goes by many names and many professions—her most perturbing being the alleged scamming of renters throughout the region.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Church’s on Cherry closes; New Amsterdam re-brands; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Your guide to Long Beach holiday drinks and food: 2024 Edition
Much to the pleasure of spook lovers, we are witnessing a horrifying growth in Long Beach holiday drinks and food menus this year—more than any year previously.
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Miracle on 4th Street: Baby Gee brings the snow and holiday cocktails
Baby Gee is bringing a flurry of snow on the hour daily and a slew of wintertime cheer inside with its onslaught of wondrous winter decorations.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sura open on Mondays; Sonoratown and Recreational partner for latte; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
How Sideburns became Long Beach’s most underrated burger joint
Sideburns is Long Beach's most underrated burger joint in a city rife with plenty of solid burger contenders.
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The Stache Bar’s holiday joy continues as it goes from Halloween to Krampus
The Stache Bar holiday dive into the world of Krampus, Disneyland's The Haunted Mansion, old-school Americana Christmas, and a totally new attitude when it comes to cocktails has officially arrived.
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The Social List decks the halls with holiday cocktail menu, winter updates
The Social List has unveiled its 2024 holiday cocktail menu as well as a handful of winter food items that continue to mark Long Beach as the holiday bar Mecca that it deserves to be.
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Baby Gee Bar’s winter menu proves—again—it is one of the region’s most innovative cocktail concocters
Baby Gee Bar's newly minted winter menu—a giddily gleeful, 15-cocktail celebration—continues its consistency in excellence and execution.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Many more closures; Hartland’s scores alcohol license; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Jin from BTS chooses Long Beach’s Retro Row as backdrop for new music video
Jin of BTS opted for Long Beach's Retro Row to be the opening backdrop for his first solo music video, "Running Wild."
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Nov. 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Food & Drink
Tokyo Noir isn’t just a speakeasy; it’s an ode to discipline and honing Long Beach’s growing cocktail culture
Tucked into a space where one enters through the alley way of El Barrio, Tokyo Noir is far more than a speakeasy.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Olive & Rose cocktails coming; mini-market Indian grub; new dim sum; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Most anticipated restaurants opening in Long Beach in 2024: UPDATED
Your complete guide to all the restaurants opening (or not) in Long Beach in 2024.
Culture & Commentary
Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to Art Theatre Long Beach—with very new, very queer shadow cast
After a 30-year presence at The Art Theatre of Long Beach with Midnight Insanity, a new shadow cast—wittily dubbed Bit of Mustard—has relaunched monthly midnight showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Babette Bakery to close Nov. 3; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Your guide to Long Beach Halloween drinks and food: 2024 Edition
Much to the pleasure of spook lovers, we are witnessing a horrifying growth in Long Beach Halloween drinks and food menus this year—more than any year previously.
Food & Drink
El Barrio tackles pricey food directly with ‘recession lunch’ items: ‘It’s what the community needs’
El Barrio's new happy hour menu includes tons of items under $10 and nearly every single hearty dish being under $15. And for a space with parking across the street, it is a gem for Long Beach in more ways than one.
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Stache Bar’s horror movie-inspired cocktail menu marks a return to form
Stache Bar, 4th Street's much beloved dive-meets-high-end-spirits space, helped introduce Long Beach to good liquor. And now, they return with their first formal cocktail menu in a while.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Mangette closes; Fluffy’s Sno-Ball owner dies; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
From Krampus to Morticia Addams: The Social List’s devilishly delicious Halloween cocktail menu
The Social List has always had stellar cocktails. And their 2024 Halloween menu—expanded from six cocktails last year to 10 this year—continues to reflect that standard.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Padre/Mezcalero wage theft controversy; LB Latino Restaurant Week launches; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Celebrating a decade, The Social List Havana Nights returns for one night only
The Social List, the much-loved 4th Street restaurant, is turning 10. And with that, has decided to bring its equally loved Social List Havana Nights for one night only, come Friday, Sept. 27 at 6PM.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Art Scene: With upcoming remake, Art Theatre to screen original ‘Nosferatu’ with live score
The Art Theatre Long Beach will be screening the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu with a live score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky.
Food & Drink
Chef Jason Witzl is back, Long Beach—and takes Ellie’s to a full return to form
Chef Jason Witzl of Ellie's has had one helluva 2024—and his new menu at Ellie's proves that it's only getting better.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Sept. 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Art Scene: Yes, there’s a Childless Cat Lady Art Works Show—or CCLAWS. And it’s everything you want.
One should not mess with cats or their owners. Or you shall rightfully receive the wrath. Like a full on, two-space exhibit dubbed the Childless Cat Lady Art Works Show (or CCLAWS) coming to Long Beach on Sept. 27.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: North LB to have new brunch spot; Ají broken into; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Art Scene: Cool Cat Collective launches Monster Cats art show
Oh yes, the Monster Cats art show is making its debut, Long Beach. Cool Cat Collective, the city's sole space dedicated to all things furry'n'feline.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Baby Gee owners to open trattoria concept; rooftop of Breakers update; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: NYC-style chopped cheese hope; Battambong BBQ hits four years; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
2028 Summer Olympics and Long Beach: Your guide to everything happening
The 2028 Summer Olympics will be hosted by our neighbor to the north—and it will have massive impacts on Long Beach. Here is your complete guide to what is being proposed, where things are happening, and what improvements (yes, improvements!) are happenin
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now: Long Beach Food Scene Week Edition
Given we just ended the 10-day celebration that was Long Beach Food Scene Week, I wanted to share dishes I discovered that went beyond...
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Hamburgers Nice and Baby Gee collab; Ficklewood closes; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Ají Peruvian Cuisine in Long Beach celebrates ten years as a purveyor of Peruvian flavors
Ají Peruvian Cuisine is participating in Long Beach Food Scene Week 2024, a ten-day celebration of our city's food culture with over 60 restaurants involved....
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A decade in showcasing neighborhood comfort, The Social List brings back Havana Nights and love
The Social List is coming in on its tenth birthday and has seen a seemingly endless amounts of varying menus while building up a legion that—unlike many other other restaurants—visits multiple times a month.
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Long Beach vegan staple Seabirds Kitchen to permanently shutter Sept. 8
Seabirds Kitchen on 4th Street will permanently cease operations come Sept. 8. Chef and owner Stephanie Morgan's space has largely come to define elevated, contemporary vegan food in Long Beach.
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Lola’s Mexican Cuisine is using mole as an annual tradition for the Long Beach food scene
At first, Lola's Mexican Cuisine brought the famed mole Oaxaqueño from Chef Susana Trilling straight home. And this year, Chef Luis Navarro is reintroducing his elusive but beautiful mole rosa for the annual celebration that is Long Beach Food Scene Week.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Royal Indian Curry House finds new home in DTLB; new coffee joint coming to Wrigley; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: July 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Culture & Commentary
Cool Cat Collective is the ultimate space for the cat lovers (and rescuers) of Long Beach
Long Beach's Cool Cat Collective is, indeed, the consummate cat lover space. The newest addition to 4th Street's growing business district as it sprawls beyond the confines of Retro Row, Cool Cat Collective is part humanitarian effort, part art space, part retail business that seeks to bring in All Things Kitty.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: I Luv Ur Buns brick-and-mortar grand opening; Sake Secrets burglarized; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Praise the masa gods: Lola’s in Long Beach introduces new brunch, new tortillas
Lola's in Long Beach—longtime champion of comida Mexicana since opening in Retro Row over 15 years ago—has quietly introduced a newly, locally-sourced tortilla for the first time while launching into the newest iteration of their brunch menu.
Culture & Commentary
An ode to Golden Burgers—and the immigrant-led diners that have long defined Long Beach and L.A.
Golden Burgers was a staple at the northeast corner of 4th Street and Junipero Avenue for over four decades. Part of the definitive SoCal...
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Good Day Cafe soft opens on 4th; Filipino coffee coming; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Well-read: The Long Beach bookstore renaissance happening on 4th Street
The Long Beach bookstore is having an outright renaissance along the Retro Row stretch of 4th Street. And it's thanks to the love of the tangible slowly returning as people steer more healthily away from screens and towards the things of this earth. Especially the printed page.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: June 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
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FIRST LOOK: Hartland’s opens with rare, perched-above-the-beach experience in Long Beach
Restaurateur and chef Rob White just announced he would be taking over the former Plunge space at 1900 Ocean with a new concept. And is now ready to debut Hartland's for the Long Beach food scene—complete with utterly gorgeous views of the coastline.
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Baby Gee Bar and new summer menu reflect this Long Beach gem beyond the accolades
Baby Gee Bar has had many reasons to celebrate—they've been recognized not just once but twice by the coveted and prestigious Spirited Awards while co-owner and lead bar maestro Gianna Johns scored recognition from the respected Star Chefs earlier this year—but when it comes down to it, they're a Long Beach bar through and through.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Rubio’s, Dave’s Hot Chicken likely to close in Belmont Shore; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Little Coyote under new owner; multiple new spaces open; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: When the waves brought avid surfers and competitions to our shores
In this part of Long Beach Lost, we explore Long Beach surfing—something that might be completely strange to think of now. But Long Beach was, at one point, one of the most sought-after early era surf spots along the West Coast with its six-foot swells that earned it the moniker of "Queen of the Beaches."
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Granada Deli & Liquor, Tap House, Kpasta close; Auld Dub turns 20; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach’s The Wild Chive named one of the best brunch spots in the nation
Chef Soozee Nguyen and the entire Wild Chive team have definitive reason to celebrate: Yelp!—the user-determined restaurant aggregator that is simultaneously useful and one of the worst parts of the food industry—has determined that the Alamitos Beach vegan spot is one of the country's best for brunch.
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Wide Eyes Open Palms to shutter, shift toward new owner and re-brand as Good Day Cafe
The two unabashedly queer, proud women behind Wide Eyes Open Palms—Chef Kat McIver and coffee maestro Angie Evans, who founded what is colloquially known as WeOp—have decided to pass the torch to a new owner. The space's last day of operation as Wide Eyes Open Palms will be June 2, followed by a two-week closure to re-brand as the Good Day Cafe.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Golden Burgers to become Eat Fantastic; two new parklets coming; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Baby Gee Bar named in prestigious Spirited Awards as top 10 bar in the U.S. West
After scoring an acknowledgement just last year from the prestigious Tale of the Cocktail Foundation’s Spirited Awards—the bar world's Oscars—for being one of the Top 10 best new bars in the U.S. West, Baby Gee Bar finds itself yet again recognized by the coveted awards: It has been named one of the best bars in the country's western region.
Culture & Commentary
Short films get their due at inaugural Tiny Film Fest in Long Beach
The idea behind Tiny Film Fest is simple: 61 films that are five minutes or less, shown in three programs of roughly an hour-and-a-half. Choose your segment and you'll get a variety of nearly every aspect of cinematic visual storytelling, from documentaries and animation to international shorts and straight-forward narratives.
Food & Drink
Gusto Bread formally becomes Long Beach’s first James Beard finalist
Long Beach’s Gusto Bread, the Latin American-centric space that overtly overthrows Eurocentric ideals when it comes to baked goods, has officially become a finalist for Outstanding Bakery in the 2024 James Beards awards, the nation’s most prestigious food honors.
Urbanism & Development
These massive Long Beach development projects will alter our skyline, vibe—or both
2024 and the following handful of years might prove tangibly influential in Long Beach development—from how our skyline looks to how our entire vibe feels, be it skyscrapers or bridges, parks or beachside projects.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Grill ‘Em all inches toward opening; various new shops opening; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Art Scene: Show celebrates the rich history of LBSU Dirtbags
A gang of 12 artists—led by Long Beach artists Jon Brong and Jeff McMillan—are invading the Port Long Beach space off of Retro Row to showcase an art exhibit honoring the LBSU Dirtbags as they prepare for their annual rivalry game against the Fullerton Titans this weekend.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Plunge, V-Burger close; BBQ fest to return; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: LB Fish Grill, El Torito closing; Happy Cow rebrands; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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El Barrio in Long Beach shares history with Mexican joints stretching back to 1950s
Yes, El Barrio took over the dive that was Ashley's, much to the cry of its patrons—but it's grown as a community staple and, even more, shares an interesting history with Mexican food.
Culture & Commentary
A look at the Madonna-themed cocktails for Long Beach’s queerest vinyl listening session
The Social List bar manager Erik Rios-Wentzky and local bar celeb and queer advocate Devon Jade have come up with a handful of beautiful, liquid odes to the Queen of Pop—all in the name of Long Beach Last Call's queerest event.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’
Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Walt’s Wharf catches fire; former Octopus space back up for lease; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Urbanism & Development
Long Beach breaks ground on roller skate area, basketball court for Junipero Beach Sports Court
Two years in the making, the Junipero Beach Sports Court broke ground and construction already sees the formation of its new roller rink and basketball court.
Food & Drink
Chefs of Ammatolí, La Parolaccia vying for best chef in California at James Beard Awards
Following the announcement that Gusto Bread is a semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery, the James Beard Awards—the nation's most prestigious food honors—have put forth Chef Dima Habibeh of Ammatolí and Chefs Stefano and Michael Procaccini of La Parolaccia as semifinalists for Best Chef in California.
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Long Beach’s Gusto bakery a semifinalist for prestigious James Beard award
Long Beach's Gusto bakery, the Latin American-centric space that overtly overthrows Eurocentric ideals when it comes to baked goods, has officially become a semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery in the 2024 James Beards awards.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach restaurants are testing the waters with late hours—but patrons need to stay up with them
Long Beach restaurants have long struggled with maintaining late hours, both pre- and post-COVID—and in a huge sense, it's the snake that eats itself: People consistently claim that they want places open later so a handful do but don't receive the patronage because it is presumed that, well, no one is open late.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: January 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: 4 Shore sign goes up in Naples; ISM launches brunch; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Bottlecraft license suspended; See’s Candy opens in BK; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s Good Luck Vinyl Club enters 2024 with Snoop Dogg listening party, DJ Battlecat set
Long Beach's Good Luck Vinyl Club—the third-Tuesday-of-every-month vinyl listening event that focuses on a specific album of an artist and then the surrounding sounds of that very album—will open 2024 with a set from DJ Battlecat and a listening to Snoop Dogg.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s Shady Grove Foods said they were closing—so the mayor visited them with hope
The response to the future closure of Shady Grove Foods led to enormous online vitriol toward the City's handling of small business—leaving Mayor Rex Richardson no choice but to meet with them one-on-one to offer help and hope.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Win~Dow signage goes up; Mangiafolie moves forward in old Scholb space; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: The stained glass house on the sands of Long Beach, ‘Camouflage House’
Part of Long Beach Walls's 2021 collection of art, 'Camouflage House' greeted passersby on the shore of Long Beach with its array of colors, reflections, and hope—and was one of the city's coolest art installations.
Culture & Commentary
A holiday ode to the queer bars of Long Beach’s Gayborhood—and every queer bar in the world
The holidays can be a convoluted emotional bag for those within the queer community—and this is a dedication and reminder that whether surrounded by love or still searching to find some form of it, our bars are more than just bars: They're our churches.
Food & Drink
Much-loved Shady Grove Foods to permanently close Long Beach brick-and-mortar Jan. 1
In what many are already feeling a huge loss to the food community, Dennis and David Robicheau—the son-and-dad team behind Shady Grove Foods and its brick-and-mortar at 2708 E. 4th St.—have announced they will be permanently shuttering the restaurant, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
Culture & Commentary
‘Exuding warmth and selflessness:’ Edward Snow Jr., owner of 4th Street’s Eddie’s Market in Long Beach, dies
Edward Snow Jr.—whose father created the Eddie's Market brand that is synonymous with Long Beach culture and owns the last Eddie's Market under the family's ownership at 4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue—died of cardiac arrest at the age of 61 on Nov. 6.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: November 2023
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Food & Drink
The glorious baleadas and plàtanos maduro of Honduras Kitchen, the steward of Honduran food in Long Beach
The baleadas at Honduras Kitchen—a Honduran staple in Long Beach for over 15 years after being opened by Rafael Larios—are a prime and beautiful example of how the flour tortilla can transform the simplest of foods. This, joining the mighty fried plantain that is stuffed with picadillo, are just a few examples of how this humble, vastly underrated Latin American gem has been the steward of Honduran food in Long Beach.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: The perfect LB soup list?; Colossus does pizza every day; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Long Beach coffee scene continues to alter as Cafablanca, donation-based coffee cart, moves to Downtown L.A.
The Long Beach coffee scene is changing and evolving continuously—and this bittersweet change is one that Alamitos Beach will certainly have a pang in its heart over.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Tito’s expands; El Sauz postpones 4th Street opening; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
The reason Long Beach’s music scene needs the Good Luck Vinyl Club hi-fi vibe
Echoing the listening bars of Japan, Good Luck Vinyl Club is about two things: A very particular album and a DJ's collection that boosters that album's genre for an all-night listening session.
Food & Drink
From El Salvador to Long Beach: How Black Dog Coffee Roaster came to take over a beloved shop
Taking over a space that was once home to local coffee royalty, this tiny-but-mighty roaster hopes to offer something different.
Culture & Commentary
Four years in the making, Long Beach’s industrial-pop outfit BREATHERRR releases vinyl version of new album
Once a one-man show, BREATHERRR has evolved into a full-on band—their industrial-pop sounds about to be showcased at a massive show at the Art Theatre.
Food & Drink
Baby Gee unveils Halloween week menu (free jello shots included)
Like The Social List down the street, Baby Gee is entering into the Halloween spirit with a week-long celebration of goulash drinks'n'bites.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s best beer fest, Halloween Hootenanny, returns to MOLAA with 35+ breweries (and unlimited pours)
Over 35 breweries, tons of spooky vendors, and a sense of community that only Festival Obscura and Craft Beer LB can bring, Halloween Hootenanny happily returns with horrorcore'n'hops.
Food & Drink
Long Beach bar staple Baby Gee launches into happy hour (half-off bottles of vino and vegan dogs included)
One of Long Beach's best bars just started Happy Hour. Thank the Bar Gods.
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The Social List’s dedication to Halloween is ghoulishly sip worthy
The vibe is certainly one that stands out on 4th Street: jack-o-lanterns hang across the parklet, the skeletons of former Yelpers and Karens drape the walls, the hats of witches sway from the ceiling with the disco ball...
Urbanism & Development
Foundation ready to be laid for Long Beach’s first new seaside hotel in decades
Crews have officially dug what will be the base for a new seaside hotel on the bluff at 2010 E. Ocean Blvd., replacing the former, aged Beach Plaza Hotel. It marks a dramatic shift for the project, which has been in a tumultuous adventure toward realization since its inception in 2007 and it finally breaking ground in February earlier this year.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: L’Antica in Shore, Beachwood at 2nd & PCH opening in coming months; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Behind the tradition of the chile en nogada at Lola’s in Long Beach
For Lola's co-owner Luis Navarro, serving up a variety of dishes that go beyond the stereotypical view Americans often have of Mexican food has long been in his repertoire—and the tradition of offering up chile en nogada has been one that is over a decade old at Lola's.
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El Barrio’s new menu shows off chef’s love of SoCal (including birria lasagna)
From birria lasagna to bits of pescado chicharrón, Chef Ulises Pineda-Alfaro continues to stick to his L.A. roots.
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The mole negro Thomas Keller has shipped from Oaxaca? Lola’s will be serving it for LB Food Scene Week
One of the world's most respected culinary gifts, mole negro Oaxaqueño is one of the most complex sauces on the planet—and Lola's will be offering a version shipped directly from one of Oaxaca's most respected chefs.
Food & Drink
As 4th Street continues its beautiful evolution, business district hires first executive director
After decades of no business association at all to being able to hire its first full-time executive director, 4th Street is evolving into the corridor it always wanted to be.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Famed L’Antica pizzeria moves forward in the Shore; Nick the Greek opens July 25; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Food & Drink
Gaucho Beach—Long Beach’s soon-to-open, full-service restaurant and cafe on the beach—reveals menu
After years of setbacks and an optimistic announcement about their opening this summer, the largest of the beach amenity upgrades—Gaucho Beach at Alamitos Beach—has released its menu.
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Seabirds, Holé Molé join second string of burglaries at Long Beach restaurants; owners asked to be ‘on alert’
Two restaurants and a bar on 4th Street in Alamitos Beach join seven other burglaries that occurred in the month of June alone across the city.
Culture & Commentary
After a coordinated homophobic clash, Casita Bookstore in Long Beach continues to thrive by loving everyone
The bookstore's entire aura is about letting kids be seen and represented as they wish to be—an irony considering a group of men coordinated an incident to tell them they were going to hell because a drag queen was reading books to children about empowerment, strength in self-identity, and being an overall good person.
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Respected Long Beach Vegan Pizza popup to move into 4th Street space, rebrand as Mangiafoglie
Vegans, rejoice: Largely recognized as the best vegan pizza—specifically its pepperoni version—in the city, "LBVP," as it called among patrons, will rebrand as Mangiafolie and move into a brick-and-mortar.
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FIRST LOOK: Baby Gee Bar in Long Beach unveils new cocktail menu (including the city’s best martini)
It is no surprise that Baby Gee Bar is a seasonal bar that uses seasonal ingredients—so their summer 2023 cocktail menu is an ode to California's farms while also expanding on their mocktail offerings.
Urbanism & Development
Two instead of one: Long Beach to open giant inflatable water playgrounds in two locations tomorrow
The massive, inflatable water park was such a success in 2022 that the city is expanding it to include a location at Bayshore Avenue on top of its original Alamitos Beach location.
Events & Festivals
‘Ma:’ Battambong BBQ, El Barrio collab for Mexican Mother’s Day dinner
Longbeachize Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month: The two chefs—Chef Chad Phuong of Battambong BBQ and Chef Ulises Pineda-Alfaro of El Barrio Cantina—have come collectively together with a dinner to honor "the most beautiful woman in the world."
Events & Festivals
Inaugural Long Beach Proud! festival aims to offer a community alternative for the local queer crowd
The three-day celebration-coinciding with the city's massive Beach Streets event on May 20—will be entirely free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
Food & Drink
Baby Gee Bar recognized by the Spirited Awards, the libation world’s most prestigious honor
The Tale of the Cocktail Spirited Awards—what can be called the James Beard Awards of the libation world—have noted Long Beach's Baby Gee Bar as a Top 10 Best New Bar in the U.S West, standing amongst Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland.
Culture & Commentary
Prospector Long Beach to close after nearly 60 years of service; developer to revamp into two new spaces
Just shy of serving Long Beach for 60 years, its final day of service will be May 28 as developer Hilco Development takes over the restaurant to revamp the building into two new spaces.
Food & Drink
Breakfast Bar launches nonprofit to raise funds for local charities through unlimited pancakes & block parties
Long supporters of the community, The Breakfast Bar owners Pamela and Joshua Beadel have created a nonprofit so they can control how they can directly contribute to other charities, foundations, and organizations across the city—one block party at a time.
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Wide Eyes Open Palms, the queer women-owned 4th Street gem, continues to shine
Wide Eyes Open Palms owners/team/couple/badasses Kat McIver and Angie Evans faced hefty struggles during the pandemic, paring down their menu—but with an expanded team and induction burners on, they're ready to return to their roots as one of the city's best brunch spaces.
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Mardi Gras with The Social List on Retro Row: From po’ boys and hush puppies to boozy drinks and catfish
The Social List will have a celebratory Mardi Gras menu that proudly hails all things deep-fried, all things boozy, all things Cajun.
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Famed music promoter and Snoop Dogg business partner Bobby Dee to overtake former Bird/Fern’s bar on 4th
Bobby Dee is a self-made legend in the Los Angeles music scene, becoming one of the region's most successful promoters while simultaneously avoiding stepping on the toes of Live Nation and AEG—and now, he's dipping into the Long Beach bar scene.
Food & Drink
Famed music promoter and Snoop Dogg business partner Bobby Dee to overtake former Bird/Fern’s bar on 4th
Bobby Dee is a self-made legend in the Los Angeles music scene, becoming one of the region's most successful promoters while simultaneously avoiding stepping on the toes of Live Nation and AEG—and now, he's dipping into the Long Beach bar scene.
Food & Drink
These pink and purple dishes from Lola’s and The Social List? Valentine’s Day kitsch perfection
There are many Valentine's Day dinners happening across the city—too many to individually cover—but Lola's and The Social List have dove into the post-pandemic desire to harness a Hallmark Holiday more than ever.
Urbanism & Development
After tumultuous journey, crews break ground on shoreline hotel & condo development on Long Beach bluff
After a decade following battles between developers and the California Coastal Commission, the as-of-now dubbed Silversands project is moving forward with construction.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: La Creperie closes after 20 years, Alder & Sage opens for daytime service, more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city that isn't quite in need of a full feature but nonetheless worthy enough to let the community know about.
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Lola’s Mexican Cuisine in Long Beach introduces ‘quesopozole’ to ring in the winter with warmth
With the birria boom came the quesobirria craze, where corn tortilla wrapped quesadillas are crisped in the oily consommé of the birria broth and served with a side of the liquid to use as a dipping agent. So naturally, Lola's co-owner, Brenda Riviera, asked a very simple question: Why don't we dip them in pozole?
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With entirely new interior, Social List remains Retro Row’s neighborhood hangout
The Social List might be changing its outfit and altering its tastes, particularly when it comes to libations, but let's get one thing straight: The space is as welcomed a part of Retro Row as anything can be.
Urbanism & Development
Roller skate park, pickleball court coming to Junipero Beach
Seeking public input, the City of Long Beach will be expanding its beachfront amenities on Junipero Beach with a roller skate park and pickleball court.
Urbanism & Development
A giant, inflatable water park is coming to Alamitos Beach on June 25—free and open to the public
Continuing to modify and take on the waterfront to create more engaging spaces, the Wibit is one of the city's most water-focused public spaces in decades.
Culture & Commentary
Expanding presence, Moonlight Movies on the Beach does the right thing: Bringing free movies to everyone
20 years in, Moonlight Movies has become a Long Beach tradition that is not only entertaining but entirely free each year—but recognition of equity issues has allowed it to evolve into a more accessible event for 2022.
Food & Drink
‘Gothtrompo’ L.A. legends Evil Cooks collab with Long Beach’s El Barrio for Cinco de Mayo
The pastor pirates that are husband-and-wife team Elvia Huerta and Alex Garcia of Evil Cooks are pairing up with Chef Ulises Pineda-Alfaro of El Barrio for a Tour-of-Mexico-like Cinco de Mayo menu.
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A local institution: Long Beach Prospector up for sale with hopes new owner will continue traditions
The sale of The Prospector adds to a growing COVID trend: The owners of old-school restaurants are exhausted fighting and ready to retire—but want someone new to take the reins of the brands.
Food & Drink
Breakfast Bar to open Belmont Heights location on Valentine’s morning
The long-awaited replica of one of Long Beach's most beloved breakfast joints, the Breakfast Bar, is ready to open its doors in Belmont Heights, with breakfast-for-dinner hours coming in the near future.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s Portfolio Coffeehouse, Berlin Bistro to vacate current locations and merge into single concept
After 32 years serving 4th Street, Portfolio Coffeeshop will be moving one block west onto Cherry Avenue, sharing a space with Berlin Bistro, which will also vacate its location in DTLB.
Food & Drink
With new interior and stellar brunch menu, the spirit of the matriarch herself remains at Lola’s
Come 2023, Lola's Mexican Cuisine will have been in business for fifteen years. But owners Luis Navarro and Brenda Rivera of Lola's still aim for major changes in 2022—including a solid brunch menu—while maintaining the soul of Lola herself.
Urbanism & Development
Beach Streets returns with Gayborhood-to-DTLB event (yes, Pride party at Bixby Park included)
Tens of thousands of people have participated in the car-free events that allows bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and more to roam the streets safely—and this year, things are about to get more colorful.
Culture & Commentary
An ode to the queer bars of Long Beach’s Gayborhood—and every queer bar in the world
The holidays can be a convoluted emotional bag for those within the queer community—and this is a dedication and reminder that whether surrounded by love or still searching to find some form of it, our bars are more than just bars: They're our churches.
Food & Drink
Seabirds Kitchen has helped define vegan food in Long Beach—and continues to push toward the ethos of a better food world
Seabirds owner and vegan food master Stephanie Morgan has long dealt with ups and downs—this is the restaurant industry—but she has always maintained one very specific ideal: her food is more than just palate-pleasing but a call for the securing of a healthy future generation.
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The creamy, dreamy, silky, milky, cheesy world of Long Beach’s Oh La Vache
Owners Erika Ponzo and Jessica Sarwine jumped into the lactescent world of cheese mid-pandemic—and in return, have created a cheese shop that Long Beach definitively deserves.
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It was supposed to be a bodega: The unlikely story of Little Coyote Long Beach
The birth of Little Coyote—one of the city's most respected pizzerias—came out of stressful stretching-too-thin, persistent pivots, and good ol' gluten.
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Gaucho Grill to have three different concepts at $9M Alamitos Beach space dubbed ‘Gaucho Beach’
The City of Long Beach continues to expand its beach amenities, with the Alamitos Beach renovation being its most ambitious yet.
Food & Drink
Bring on the botanas: El Barrio Cantina in Long Beach brings eclectic menu and ambition to former Ashley’s space
Chef Ulises Pineda-Alfaro and his fellow partners, Joe Lin and Jesse Duron, are no strangers to the food game—but their ambitions with their new Long Beach joint are much bigger than anything they've tackled before.
Events & Festivals
Three Long Beach craft beer vets take on Halloween and hops for 40-plus vendor beer festival at MOLAA
The team behind The 4th Horseman, Martin and Ryan Hughes-Svab, along with Craft Beer LB founder Dennis Trilles, are gearing up for a massive, hop-driven, heady-in-all-the-good-ways Halloween hootenanny.
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With chef competitiveness at a pandemic high, Chef Jason Witzl returns to old-school Italian
As kitchens reopen to a capacity they haven't seen since before the pandemic, some chefs are aiming high—but Chef Jason Witzl is returning to the simplicity of old-school Italian cuisine.
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The Social List evolves in a food world juggling pandemic-induced fears and patrons seeking newness
Brenda Rivera and Luis Navarro are easily two of Long Beach's most recognized and busy restaurateurs: Between two Lola's locations, The Social List, and the city's first distillery, Portuguese Bend, the married pair are as ubiquitous as they are willing to evolve. What the pandemic did for many restaurants was put their plans on hold—and that especially included new menus
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Chef Jason Witzl shutters deli concept, ditches Zaferia move as Ellie’s Long Beach returns to original home
It ain't easy out there for restaurants—and especially for Ellle's Long Beach, as Chef Jason Witzl is forced to abandon the restaurant's move to the much-lauded, soon-to-likely-shutter Compound art complex in Zaferia. There is, however, a silver lining: Ellie's will return to its full glory at its original location in Alamitos Beach.
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Longtime Long Beach favorite At Last Cafe closes; Seabirds opens vegan space on 4th Street
After a decade, Long Beach is losing one of its defining neighborhood restaurants, At Last Cafe.
