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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.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach coffee pioneer Wade Windsor faces cancer, Lyme disease; family seeking help
Wade Windsor, the charming, affable, kind coffee pioneer who brought Long Beach some of its first taste of third-wave coffee with the (much-missed) Lord Windsor in Alamitos Beach, is facing one hell of an uphill battle.
Culture & Commentary
Queer-owned retail space Adelita’s Revenge is becoming a hub for Long Beach’s marginalized
From sound baths and full moon healings to Spanish classes and film screenings, Adelita's Revenge is becoming a central hub to better connect marginalized people.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s Buvons officially opens French-meets-Californian restaurant space
After a month of experimenting in the kitchen, Buvons Wine Bar, the restaurant expansion from the neighboring Buvons Wine Shop, has opened under the watchful eye of owner and chef Alicia Kemper.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Colossus opens new location; more sweets come to the 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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Feb. 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
Long Beach wine bar Buvons develops restaurant space—starting with a stellar coffee popup
Alicia Kemper, the owner of Buvons Natural Wine Bar & Shop, has set her eyes on expansion. While she has constantly flexed her love...
Food & Drink
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.
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.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Rosemallows hosts last days of service; Amorcito shutters; 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.
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.
Food & Drink
Caffeinated’n’sweet: These Long Beach coffee shops and bakeries are open on Thanksgiving
Not all of us can do it at home—and that is why these Long Beach coffee shops and bakeries open on Thanksgiving Day save many from frustration.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Jan’s Health Bar opens first LB space; Torisho 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
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
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
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: 4 Shore temporarily closes; FAM Fest flexes with chef lineup; 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
A brother and a fighter serve up Coffee Station’s love letter from Instanbul to Long Beach
Coffee Station in Downtown Long Beach is a small skip away from all the Pine Avenue brouhaha, bringing Turkish culture and treats to a whole new audience.
Food & Drink
Our Spot Coffee is creating the most innovative coffee drinks in Long Beach
Our Spot Coffee isn't a full-on brick-and-mortar—at least not yet—but it's already churning out the city's most innovative coffee drinks.
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 Food Scene Intel: Peruvian sandwich and coffee shop opening in Cal Heights; 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: 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.
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown moves forward; Flamin’ Curry opens second location; 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
Essential Long Beach coffee shops
The Long Beach coffee scene is continually evolving and changing—and with that, let's explore the best of the best of that very scene.
Food & Drink
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.
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Knead Donuts to open Signal Hill location; Chipotle to open soon 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
A little more queer, a little more femme: Recreational Coffee’s new owners move toward the future
If you haven't noticed, there's a slightly different, queer-er vibe at the always-welcoming Recreational Coffee in Downtown Long Beach. And there's a reason: It's fairly-newly minted owner Brooklyn Warden has taken over.
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
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.
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Ackee Bamboo slowly inching to open; Nook, Moonbridge 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: August 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
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
The underrated food coming out of the underrated Zaferia gem that is Commodity
Chef Josh Haskal has been directly involved in nearly every aspect of food hospitality—be it managing the former Beer Belly to bartending to cooking—but his talents shine best when he has the right partnership, like that with Commodity.
