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Barbecue
Events & Festivals
Long Beach BBQ Festival 2025 to bring the meats, music, merriment and more
Long Beach BBQ Festival 2025 is ready to take over Shoreline Aquatic Park this Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Lazy Dough opening; plus omakase cocktails, pambazos, new farmers markets, 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
Listening to community, Broken Spirits goes halal with menu updates, increases focus on Long Beach
Broken Spirits Distillery has decided to go halal with its beef and chicken offerings thanks to some suggestions from patrons.
Food & Drink
A Cambodian food festival finally arrives in Long Beach
The Long Beach Cambodian Food Festival kicks off its inaugural year at Ten Mile Brewing on Saturday, Oct. 19 from noon to 8PM.
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach popup Brother’s Keeper BBQ wins Bludso-led competition
Maurice "Mo" Stewart, the man behind the underrated Brother's Keeper BBQ popup, was named the best barbecue in the region.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: South of Nick’s moves forward in Belmont Shore; more coffeeshops 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.
Food & Drink
Ribbro Long Beach soft opens with barbecue sandwiches until grand opening
Ribbro Long Beach has officially soft opened in Belmont Shore, serving sandwiches only until its grand opening in July. Owner Mark Lee is aiming for a July 2 formal opening—but that all depends on equipment and timing.
Food & Drink
Long Beach BBQ Festival is stacked with some of the finest—and this is the local couple behind it
As the second annual Long Beach BBQ Festival approaches its day of taking over Shoreline Aquatic Park this Saturday, May 25, Longbeachize and Brian Addison have partnered with the festival to highlight some the local talent being featured at the festival. Today, we focus on the incredible couple behind the whole festival, Qiana and Ian Mafnas.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: May 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.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach BBQ Festival: Full Send BBQ is a veteran’s salute to his Filipino family and heritage
As the second annual Long Beach BBQ Festival approaches its day of taking over Shoreline Aquatic Park on May 25, Longbeachize and Brian Addison have partnered with the festival to highlight some the local talent being featured at the festival. Today, we feature Full Send BBQ, a veteran-owned barbecue popup that is flush with love, uplifting our country in a time when few do, and honoring Filipino heritage.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach BBQ Festival: Big Brian’s Meats is the melding of four generations of Mexican-American love
As the second annual Long Beach BBQ Festival approaches its day of taking over Shoreline Aquatic Park on May 25, Longbeachize and Brian Addison have partnered with the festival to highlight some the local talent being featured at the festival. Today, we feature Big Brian's Meats, a Lakewood-based grillin' popup that melds Mexican-American traditions with the love of the almighty grill.
Events & Festivals
Annual Cambodian New Year celebration at Ten Mile returns (twako pizza and Khmer lager included)
For the third year in a row, "Cambodian Cowboy" Chef Chad Phuong of Battambong BBQ will host a mighty Cambodian New Year celebration at Ten Mile Brewing in Signal Hill, the pit master's long-time home and partner, come Friday, April 26 from 5PM to 9PM.
Food & Drink
OC-based Ribbro BBQ to open first Long Beach location in Belmont Shore
Orange County-based barbecue joint Ribbro BBQ will be taking over the former Mangosteen space on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore following rumors that everyone from Bludso's to Long Beach's own Axiom would be taking over the space.
Food & Drink
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.
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: 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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach popup Axiom BBQ temporarily closes amid concerns over numbers, search for brick-and-mortar
Is there something up with the state of barbecue in Long Beach? In a deep sense of irony, following Shady Grove's frustration with their own brick-and-mortar that almost led to their closure and their return to the popup scene, barbecue popup Axiom BBQ announced this will be their last weekend serving "for a while."
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
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.
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.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach’s Cambodian Cowboy partners with Inglewood’s Three Weavers Brewing for Cambo-coffee stout beer
Inglewood's OG craft brewery Three Weavers and the Cambodian Cowboy himself
Events & Festivals
Tasso, cochon de lait, crawfish boil: Ten Mile Brewing to host mini-Cajun festival with Battambong BBQ and Shady Grove Foods
Ten Mile will have tasso and cream pizza and killer shrimp. Battambong will have a crawfish boil and Asian-Cajun dirty rice. Shady Grove Foods will have smoked meatloaf and gumbo ya-ya. What is there not to love?
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."
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: The cringey and strange tale of how Lucille’s Smokehouse created a fictitious Black woman for their brand
In a move that echoes the controversy surrounding Quaker Oats's creation of Aunt Jemima, Lucille's proudly admitted to creating Lucille Buchanan, a fictitious Black woman from South Carolina which inspired their barbecue. Come the BLM protests of 2020, the restaurant removed the entire story without a word.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: July 2022
Brian Addison's 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
Your first look at Shady Grove Foods, the original procurer of ‘Long Beach barbecue’
The father-and-son team behind one of Long Beach's most anticipated brick-and-mortars proudly proclaim their food as "Long Beach barbecue," where stick ribs marinated in fish sauce and pork chops topped with pineapple and cilantro are run of the mill.
Food & Drink
Cajun meets smokey: The father-and-son team of Shady Grove Foods to take over Restauration space
After its previous tenant had a less-than-graceful exit from the local food scene, the prime real estate that is the former Restauration space on 4th Street is a restaurateur's dream—and the Robicheaus hope to offer something entirely different as they take over the space.
