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The essential Long Beach brunch and breakfast guide
Long Beach is a breakfast city. A brunch city. And definitely a day-drinking city. Here are the best places to get down on that morning chow.
Food & Drink
Our Spot continues to offer Long Beach’s most imaginative coffee with Liv’s residency
Our Spot Coffee—the Long Beach popup headed by husband-and-wife team Chris and Ali McColl—has partnered with Belmont Shore's underrated Liv's for a new coffee residency.
Food & Drink
With independent ownership, Hotel Maya takes on new chef, revamps Fuego’s brunch menu
Hotel Maya—returning to its roots as an independently Long Beach-owned and -operated hotel—has hired its first new chef in over a decade and revamped Fuego's brunch menu.
Food & Drink
Ammatoli proves it’s one of the region’s best with its bold, bodacious brunch
An Ammatoli brunch easily solidifies why it is one of the city's most acclaimed restaurants.
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.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: From Japanese to donuts, lots of new openings across city
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’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.
Food & Drink
The Fairmont Breakers in Downtown Long Beach is always open for breakfast
To know Long Beach is to know its love of breakfast and day drinking—and it would seem Nettuno offers an upgrade in that sense.
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.
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
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.
Culture & Commentary
The Breakfast Bar’s expansion is part of a growing trend in expanding DTLB’s ability for events
The Breakfast Bar's latest expansion at its Downtown location isn't solely for seating more patrons. That is, of course, part of the goal. But the larger goal of Catering & Events Manager Angela Roman's space is much more significant.
Food & Drink
EggBred Long Beach to open with ‘craft breakfast sandwiches’ in Downtown on Nov. 23
EggBred Long Beach—the quickly expanding, self-described craft breakfast sandwich chain—will be opening on Nov. 23.
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach restaurants land in Yelp rankings; Shlap Muan and Pickle Banh Mi land in Top 10
Multiple Long Beach businesses landed in Yelp! Elites' rankings for the best restaurants throughout Los Angeles County.
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
Madres Brunch Long Beach officially opens in the East Village
Madres Brunch Long Beach has officially opened. It has taken over the former LB Taco Co. space in the East Village, which closed earlier this year.
Food & Drink
Altar Society breakfast: Brewery blends bubbles, Bloody Marys, and breakfast burritos
An Altar Society breakfast, you say? Yessiree: breakfast sandwiches, pizzas, burritos, and plenty of bubbles, beers, and Bloody Marys to wrap a nice liquid blanket around those day drinkers.
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.
Food & Drink
LB Taco Co. to permanently close in DTLB; for-the-‘Gram Madres Brunch to move in
The Long Beach Taco Company has been purportedly bought by Madres Brunch, an Insta-centric breakfast and brunch destination with five locations across SoCal.
Food & Drink
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
Olive by the Bay—steeped in Long Beach food history—connects Downey to peninsula
Olive by the Bay—the newest restaurant to open for the community of the Peninsula—takes over a space that is rich in food history.
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Holey Grail to open June 1; Los Compadres to score patio; 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: 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.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: April 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: Small Cafe closes; Beach Hut Deli opens; Battambong goes to Coachella; 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
Five years in, Bamboo Club represents the pinnacle of tiki in Long Beach (new brunch menu included)
The Bamboo Club is unquestionably the epicenter of Long Beach’s love of tiki bars and drinks—and their newly minted brunch reflects just that.
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.
Food & Drink
Marlena’s brunch proves why it is Long Beach’s best new restaurant
Marlena—one of Long Beach's newest restaurants from newly minted restaurateur Robert Smith, Chef Michael Ryan, hospitality maestro Debra Zelenka, and cocktail connoisseur David Castillo—has quickly garnered a loyal legion of patrons.
Food & Drink
Breakfast concept ‘And Waffles’ to take over former Pier 76 space in Downtown Long Beach
Los Angeles mini-breakfast chain And Waffles (stylized as & Waffles) will be opening a Long Beach location at the former Pier 76 space in Downtown Long Beach at 95 Pine Ave.
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 Food Scene Intel: Pan to move out of BK; Vibes on Peninsula permanently 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.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: December 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
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
Popular ‘craft breakfast sandwich’ chain Eggbred inches forward in opening first Long Beach location
The quickly expanding, self-described craft breakfast sandwich chain that is Eggbred will be opening its first Long Beach location at the ground floor level of the Shoreline Gateway tower in Downtown Long Beach.
Food & Drink
Breakfast Dreams, the breakfast popup at Rose Park in DTLB, is the stuff of, well, dreams
Breakfast Dreams, a two-day-a-week residency at Rose Park on Pine, fills a much-missed gap in the coffeehouse's offerings.
Food & Drink
FIRST LOOK: Nonna Mercato takes on brunch in Bixby Knolls
Chef Cameron Slaugh's Italian heritage is fully taken on in Nonna Mercato's inaugural brunch menu—a concept that has been a year in the making.
Events & Festivals
‘Our dream was stolen:’ Egg Heaven abruptly closes amid clash between current operators, past owner and landlord
Egg Heaven is now experiencing its second closure since the pandemic amid accusations of deceit, a lack of follow-through, and clashes between those running the space and those who own it.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s first Breakfast Republic to open May 31
The insanely popular SoCal chain that is Breakfast Republic—with locations stretching from San Diego to West Hollywood—will be opening its first Long Beach location in Belmont Shore at the former Boubouffe location.
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.
Food & Drink
OC fave Ham ‘n Scram to open first Long Beach location April 1
One of Orange County's most beloved breakfast spots—started by a father-and-son team in 2010—is opening its first location beyond the Orange Curtain.
Food & Drink
Egg Heaven in Long Beach officially reopens (with chilaquiles included)
The heartwarming story of the return of Egg Heaven is one worth repeating: After spending 16 years with El Torito, a corporate giant that is the...
Culture & Commentary
Meet the Mexican immigrants whose first local jobs were at Egg Heaven—and how they’re trying to revive the breakfast legend
Esperanza Trejo and Rito García came from Mexico to Long Beach, each landing jobs at Egg Heaven. Now, decades later and following a closure of the space earlier this year, they return with the hopes of bringing the breakfast legend back to life.
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
After 50-plus years of slingin’ eggs, Egg Heaven in Long Beach to close indefinitely
It had been many things before ever becoming Egg Heaven, the business that would define the southwest corner of Ximeno and 4th Street. It...
Food & Drink
Ammatolí’s brunch is beautifully unique, cementing its place as one of the city’s best restaurants
Shakshuka. Pita chilaquiles. Beet-labneh toast. The Ammatolí brunch spread is spectacular.
