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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Walt’s Wharf prepares to reopen; Wicked Wolf unveils summer menu; 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: Taste of DTLB kicks off; coffeeshop-meets-billiards club 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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Inaugural Long Beach ‘Burger Bash’ competition comes with stacked lineup
Burger Bash is coming Sunday, June 29, Long Beach.
Chef Carlos Jurado of Selva—partnering with me at Longbeachize and James Tir (aka LBFoodComa)—has opted...
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Cake Picnic Long Beach: Hundreds of slices up for sampling at this charitable event
Michelle Cortado has already registered over 400 attendees for Cake Picnic Long Beach, set to take place on the Sports Basement event deck on Sunday, June 15, at noon.
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LA Independent Beer Fest 2025 to bring over 75 breweries to Long Beach
LA Independent Beer Fest 2025 will take place on Saturday, June 14, transforming Shoreline Aquatic Park into hop heaven.
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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.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sweetfin, Republic of Pie close in Shore; Chinito’s 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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‘Retro Romp’ in Bixby Knolls will require bar crawlers to dress up as Mrs. Roper, grandma, or grandpa
The upcoming "Retro Romp" in Bixby Knolls on Sunday, June 1, from noon to 4PM is a bar crawl-meets-Grandma costume party.
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After initial postponement, Wicked Wolf’s tea service returns following demand
Prepare for the return of tea and cucumber sandwiches as The Wicked Wolf brings back its tea service this coming week.
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Long Beach is home to one of the country’s leading cheese experts. Here’s how to get a tasting with Irene Clemente.
Irene Clemente isn't just a cheese lover. She's Long Beach's premiere cheese educator and storyteller—and she's hoping to expand her milky empire with classes, travels, and tastings.
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Massive rum event in Downtown Long Beach to feature 80+ expressions and unlimited tastings
The Rum Curious Summit 2025 will be hosted at Altar Society in Downtown Long Beach for its inaugural outing, featuring over 20 rum brands offering 100-plus expressions of the spirit.
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Long Beach Homebrew Invitational returns with unlimited beer tastings
Ah, 'tis the season for our city's budding home brewers to flex their skills in the annual Long Beach Homebrew Invitational hosted by Craft Beer LB.
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Celebrating six years, Ambitious Ales continues to be one the defining cogs of Long Beach’s beer scene
Ambitious Ales, the Bixby Knolls hopped-out gem that churns out some of the region's best beer, is turning six. And to celebrate, the brewery's...
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This Long Beach ‘bar-mers’ market features spirit tastings (and your last chance to have Waldo’s Pizza)
For Long Beach Last Call, Port City Tavern's parking lot will be a bar-mers market, where alcohol vendors, food vendors—including the much-loved last popup of Waldo's Pizza—and good times await come Saturday, Mar. 8 from noon to 5PM.
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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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Long Beach’s proper Irish pub wants to teach you how to make a proper Irish coffee
The Auld Dubliner will be hosting an Irish coffee class for Long Beach Last Call 2025.
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This unlimited tasting event in Long Beach will feature over 30 expressions of tequila and mezcal
"A Taste of Mexico" is a Long Beach Last Call tasting event on Tuesday, Mar. 4, featuring 14 Mexican distilleries serving over 30 expressions.
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Long Beach Last Call 2025 continues to celebrate bar industry with events, menus
Long Beach Last Call 2025 will return March 1 and run through March 10 with a series of events on each day that celebrates the city’s rich bar culture, community, and its workers.
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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.
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Lunar New Year lion dance event in Downtown Long Beach to include Midnight Oil preview
A Midnight Oil preview will be part of a Lunar New Year celebration on The Promenade in Downtown Long Beach. (Yes, lion dance performance included.)
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Long Beach Last Call returns for 2025 with 10-day celebration of bar and cocktail industry
Long Beach Last Call 2025 will run March 1 through March 10 with a series of events on each day that celebrates the city’s rich bar culture, community, and its workers.
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Nonna Mercato’s 12 Days of Pasta is the city’s best celebration of the carby creation
Chef Cameron Slaugh's "12 Days of Pasta" returns to Nonna Mercato. And with it, marks Long Beach's most innovative, most diverse, and downright best celebration of this carby creation.
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Long Beach International Tamales Festival returns Dec. 14
The Long Beach International Tamales Festival, the day-long event dedicated to all things tamal, will return on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1PM to 8PM.
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From the Caribbean to South America: Sazón Latin Food Festival returns to Downtown Long Beach
Downtown Long Beach is becoming a haven for Latin American celebrations that focus on food—and this weekend's upcoming Sazón Latin Food Festival is no exception.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This tasting event at Panxa will offer tacos and unlimited tastings of agave spirits (on the cheap)
"A Taste of Mexico" at Panxa comes with unlimited spirits tastings, tacos, music, and good vibes on Tuesday, Dec. 3 from 6PM ot 9PM.
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Taco Death Match 2024—the ultimate taco competition—invades Downtown Long Beach this weekend
Taco Death Match, the inaugural taco competition heading to Mosaic in Downtown Long Beach on Nov. 3, has a curated slate of 10 chefs and taqueros who will battle it out.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown open 7 days a week; Miracle at The Ordinarie 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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Taco Death Match 2024: Meet the Long Beach chefs vying for the title
Taco Death Match 2024 is upon us, Long Beach. Ten taqueros and chefs from Long Beach and L.A. battling in the ultimate competition focused on SoCal's favorite food.
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Taco Death Match 2024: Meet the traditional taqueros competing, Long Beach
Taco Death Match 2024 will pit ten taqueros from Long Beach and L.A. battling in the ultimate competition focused on SoCal's favorite food.
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Taco Death Match 2024: Meet the ‘Cambodian Competition,’ Long Beach
Taco Death Match 2024 is upon us, Long Beach. Ten taqueros and chefs from Long Beach and L.A. battling in the ultimate competition focused on SoCal's favorite food.
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Taco Death Match 2024: Meet the passionate artists bringing La Catrina to life
For the artists who bring La Catrina to life, it is much more than just bringing a symbol to fruition.
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This Long Beach whiskey dinner sends you home with a bottle of single-barrel bourbon
A Long Beach whiskey dinner that lets you walk away with your own bottle of proprietary, single-barrel Woodford Reserve? Oh yes.
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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.
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Halloween Hootenanny 2024: Long Beach’s best beer festival returns to MOLAA
Halloween Hootenanny 2024—Long Beach's best beer festival—returns with its dedication to horror'n'hops come Oct. 12 at the Museum of Latin American Art.
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Dragula watch party, weekly drag show comes to DTLB’s 4th Horseman for all those dark queers’n’drag lovers
A Dragula watch party? At Long Beach's own horrorcore pizzeria, The 4th Horseman? Yes and yes. Long Beach drag misfit Girl Haggard will be...
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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.
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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.
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Insanely stacked Long Beach FAM Fest 2024 lineup gives away every cent from tickets to cancer research
The FAM Fest 2024 lineup is, well, nothing short of stacked with food, art, and music for its Saturday, Oct. 12 outing.
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Taco Death Match: Long Beach festival-meets-competition pairs taqueros and breweries (with some tequila on the side)
Taco Death Match, the inaugural taco competition heading to Mosaic in Downtown Long Beach on Nov. 3, will have a curated slate of chefs and taqueros create special “ofrenda tacos” that honor dead loved ones.
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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.
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Nearing 15 years, the Long Beach Urban Farm Dinner continues to uplift our best chefs
The Long Beach Urban Farm Dinner—founded by Primal Alchemy owners Chef Paul and Dana Buchanan—is about to have its 14th dinner come Sunday, Sept. 22 at Organic Harvest Gardens.
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Long Beach Sake Day—the most underrated festival in the city—returns
Long Beach Sake Day returns to the city for its second iteration on Saturday, Oct. 5. And with it, brings the largest selection of sake that any festival in SoCal sees.
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With Long Beach Oktoberfest postponed, here are the places you can celebrate locally
Long Beach Oktoberfest isn't coming through for 2024—that doesn't mean there aren't other stellar options happening throughout the season in Long Beach.
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The Panxa Hatch chile roast tradition returns this weekend (Speak Cheezy pizza collab included)
The Panxa Hatch Chile Roast Festival—an annual tradition started by Chef Art Gonzalez and his wife, current owner Vanessa Auclair—returns this weekend, Sept. 14 and 15.
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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.
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Craft Beer LB Fest—the unlimited-pour festival defined by Long Beach culture—returns
When it comes to the independent Long Beach beer scene, Craft Beer LB Fest is an essential cog—with its founder, Dennis Trilles, at its epicenter.
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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.
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This Long Beach pizza tour visits four pizzerias in a double-decker booze bus
Come Sunday, Sept. 22, a red double-decker bus will come to pick up a crew for the inaugural Long Beach Pizza Tour.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: More closures, openings across city; Queen Mary seeks exec chef; 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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Albert’s Petite Sweets: How a Filipino chocolatier chose Long Beach as his home
In one very quick year, Albert's Petite Sweets has grown from a kitchen-based passion into a full-fledged chocolatier business.
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Peek over the fence: Long Beach farm & garden tour explores hidden green gems
LB Fresh has long been an organization that understands the importance of green space and foodways—and their upcoming Long Beach farm & garden tour exemplified that dedication to all things green.
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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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LB Food Scene Week continues through Aug. 18 with 60+ restaurants participating
Oh yes, Long Beach Food Scene Week 2024 is upon us come Aug. 9 through Aug. 18. The ten-day celebration of our city's food culture will feature...
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Milk Barn Pizza & Dairy returns; North LB gets Honduran grub; 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 Taco and Tequila Festival to host legendary luchador Damián 666 for final match
The 2024 Long Beach Taco and Tequila Festival is upon us—and it not only brings said tacos and tequila but music and culture as well.
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Long Beach Food Scene Week 2024 kicks off with over 50 restaurants participating
It is with great pride that I announce Long Beach Food Scene Week 2024 will kick off come Aug. 9 through Aug. 18—and will feature the city's best restaurants as over 50 spaces have confirmed their participation for the second year of the annual event.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Ficklewood up for sale; District Wine celebrates 14 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.
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75+ breweries. 150+ beers. LA Beer Week’s Independent Beer Fest in Long Beach is massive
As with last year, where thousands descended upon Shoreline Aquatic Park in Downtown Long Beach, LA Beer Week and its Independent Beer Fest will once again invade Downtown Long Beach with the largest beer festival in SoCal. Come Saturday, June 15, the festival will bring over 75 breweries from the region and over 150 different beers with them.
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How Long Beach Beer Lab’s Clean & Crispy Beer Fest is more about community than obscure beers
Outside of the massive Lagerville in Ventura, Long Beach Beer Lab's annual Clean & Crispy Beer Fest is the region's largest festival dedicated to light, refreshing beers—and with its return on Saturday, June 22, brings with it the idea that craft beer can move beyond the niche and into the communal.
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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.
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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.
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Queen Mary in Long Beach to host Edgar Allan Poe speakeasy
Fans of Victorian Gothic literature and poetry—or just anything that resembles the aesthetic of everything from "Sleepy Hallow" and "Crimson Peak" to "Frankenstein" and "Dracula"—shall rejoice in dark harmony: The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy, a traveling immersive cocktail experience, will be invading The Queen's Salon aboard The Queen Mary come May 30 through June 1.
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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.
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La Playa Night Market hopes to become Downtown Long Beach’s monthly twilight outing
Long Beach's food scene is certainly booming but it would be intellectually dishonest to not acknowledge its lacks. And when it comes to the rich world of night markets, it is a concept like La Playa Night Market that becomes a warm welcome.
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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.
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Selva’s candlelit ‘test kitchen’ dinners flex the muscles of Chef Carlos Jurado
Selva has long harnessed its Colombian sensibility when it comes to food, but Chef Carlos Jurado wants to not just challenge himself but Long Beach.
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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.
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‘Cambodian Cowboy’ to lead Cambodian New Year in Long Beach across three days; ends with food festival
Chef Chad Phuong is no slack when it comes to the annual celebration of the Cambodian New Year in Long Beach: Across four days beginning on Friday, April 5, he will host a variety of events that culminates with a food festival at Trademark Brewing that will be hosting some of the city's best representation Cambodian-American entrepreneurs and food creators.Camb
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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 Last Call draws thousands across 10-day celebration of bar culture
Thousands of revelers—be they dancers or drinkers, in the industry or seeking to support it—came out in love for Long Beach Last Call: 15 events across 10 days of celebration in the name of our bar culture and the people behind one of our strongest social and economic drivers.
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Unlimited wine pours from over 20 wineries as LA Wine Fest returns to Long Beach
The annual event—which moved from Los Angeles to Long Beach in 2019—is one of the region's largest wine-centric events (but don't worry: there's beer to break up the grape crushing).
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Long Beach Last Call celebration of bar industry continues through Mar. 10
From industry only events and parties aboard the Queen Mary to dive bar bingo and proper Irish coffee lessons, Long Beach Last Call will celebrate the bar culture in a way no event has.
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Viaje in Belmont Shore is home to Long Beach’s most underrated cocktail program
Viaje in Belmont Shore serves as one of the most underrated spaces when it comes to the growing cocktail game, with head bartender Tiquio Serratos exploring with Mexican spirits and ingredients that honor and uplift our neighbor to the south.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: The Pan to reopen in March; Korean fried chicken hidden in a deli; 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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Panxa Long Beach is home to the city’s largest agave spirits selection
For Long Beach Last Call, Panxa will be hosting an array of some of the finest agave-centric distilleries—Tequila Ocho, Siete Leguas, Mezcal Vago, Nosotros, and more—that will allow ticket holders to taste over 20 variations of agave spirits for $30 come Saturday, Mar. 2.
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How to celebrate National Margarita Day in Long Beach
It's National Margarita Day—but this list largely would have been impossible if it weren't for Jay Verdiales not only organizing the first Long Beach Margarita Week but inviting me as a judge. In that spirit, I picked ten of my own favorites—some from Long Beach Margarita Week, some not. In no particular order...
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Altar Society is part of a Downtown Long Beach rebirth—so they’re hosting a crawl to celebrate the other businesses joining them
Altar Society will be hosting a Long Beach Food Scene meet-up that will eventually become a crawl, hitting up ISM, The Stave, and ending at The Ordinarie come Mar. 8—all in celebration of Long Beach Last Call.
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This (free) Big Red Bus crawl will explore some of the best Long Beach dive bars
Long Beach’s love for dive bars is one that shouldn’t be messed with—and with that, there will be a free Big Red Bus ride that will explore some of our finest on Monday, Mar. 9 beginning at 3PM at Crow's in Naples, all in celebration of Long Beach Last Call.
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Whiskey dinner at Auld Dubliner in Long Beach to feature some hyper-exclusive bottles of Bushmills
Come Feb. 21, The Auld Dubliner in Downtown Long Beach will greet Xander Brown, the SoCal brand ambassador for Bushmills and a longtime whiskey educator.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Flamin’ Curry to open second location; Dirt Dog reopens; 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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This Long Beach cooking class teaches harvesting your own cultures, Jewish baking styles (with lunch included)
A special dinner collaboration between Locali Seasoned, Longbeachize, and Speak Cheezy will allow guests to learn about sourdough pizza—and take home their own starter.
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Michelin star meets smash burger: Long Beach’s Heritage and Hamburgers Nice to partner for popup
Heritage—Long Beach's first Michelin-starred restaurant—and Hamburgers Nice—arguably the city's best burger—are partnering for a special event at Heritage's farm to honor the sandwich roots of Heritage while letting Nice flex some skills.
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The Long Beach pizzerias reppin’ the city for L.A.’s massive Pizza City Fest
Five Long Beach pizzerias—Speak Cheezy, La Parolaccia, Nonna Mercato, L'Antica da Michele, and Little Coyote—will be reppin' Long Beach at this year's second annual Pizza City Fest, the region's largest festival dedicated to the mighty pie.
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The importance of the return of Organic Harvest Garden’s Black History Month farm dinner in Long Beach
Chef Rod Dodd, the man behind the tucked-under-a-freeway farm and garden space that is North Long Beach's Organic Harvest Gardens, is returning with his one of his most beloved and popular annual events: the Black History Month farm-to-table dinner, returning to the green space on Feb. 18.
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Open bar and fireworks? Bungalow Long Beach to host first NYE party—becoming what it’s always wanted to be
At long last, the party it has always intended to throw is to become a reality at Bungalow Long Beach, as it will host an open bar with full view of the fireworks to be shot off at Alamitos Bay for the lounge's New Year's Eve party.
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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.
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Long Beach Night Market unveils stellar lineup (birria lasagna included)
The Long Beach Night Market finally returns this Saturday, Dec. 16 after a minor break from the scene—and returns with a solid lineup of vendors.
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Truly, the art of pasta: Nonna Mercato’s 12-day long, chef-centric celebration of the carby wonder
Nonna Mercato in Bixby Knolls is a vastly underrated pasta heaven—and Chef Cameron Slaugh wants to flex his rolling pin skills with a series of hand-rolled pastas across 12 days in December.
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Long Beach International Tamales Festival returns Dec. 9
The Long Beach International Tamales Festival, the day-long event dedicated to all things tamal, will be returning Saturday, Dec. 9—and yet again, expects to draw in thousands and thousands of people wanting to explore the almighty tamal, from Mexican to Guatemalan styles.
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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.
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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.
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Long Beach Night Market to return to Downtown with new, expanded location
After a quirky and unnecessary halt earlier this year, the wildly popular Long Beach Night Market returns Dec. 16
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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
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This Long Beach dinner/class allows you to take home the dough starter of one of the best pizzerias in the country
A special dinner collaboration between Locali Seasoned, Longbeachize, and Speak Cheezy will allow guests to learn about sourdough pizza—and take home their own starter.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Two new vegan restaurants open; Sushi Nikkei expands hours in 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.
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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.
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Long Beach’s inaugural Sake Day proved itself to be the most underrated drink event in the city
Long Beach's inaugural Sake Day event was nothing short of stellar, helping SoCal move beyond the sake bomb and into the art behind quality sake.
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Long Beach Bartenders Guild closes a gap in the local hospitality industry that’s existed for too long
Yes, amid the tables lined with pours of various tequilas and mezcals from Nosotros—a tequileria and mezcaleria that has bases in both Jalisco and...
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What to (unquestionably) eat during LB Food Scene Week
The Longbeachize crew has been working for months on LB Food Scene Week—and Brian Addison here with his top personal choices on where to eat.
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Meet the woman trying to connect her community with chefs and cooking skills—steak dinner coming up for LB Food Scene Week
Abbey Metcalf ditched her corporate job mid-pandemic to focus on something more fulfilling—a discovered food is the best conduit for human connection.
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What to (unquestionably) drink at Taste of Downtown in Long Beach (and places to explore beyond that)
In partnership with the Downtown Long Beach Alliance (DLBA), Longbeachize is highlighting essential summer cocktails from some of Downtown’s finest, while previewing several cocktails that will also be available at DLBA’s upcoming Taste of Downtown event on Long Beach's waterfront.
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Bring on the Deadpool: Meet Wrexham AFC team this Friday in Long Beach
This free event is a very strange but warmly welcomed amalgamation of brand promotion, sports, Hollywood, and using one's relationships to the best of their ability.
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As Long Beach’s cocktail scene grows, why events like Tropical Shakedown become essential (and outright badass)
Tropical Shakedown—an event by the peeps at Long Beach Bartenders Guild and Don Papa distillery—is just one example of why our city's cocktail scene deserves to be uplifted.
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Unlimited pizza, beer, and art viewing? 4th Horseman to celebrate LB Restaurant Week with one-night event (including Brian Addison-curated pizza)
The first event celebrating and leading up to August's Long Beach Restaurant Week is one filed with (a ton of) pizza, beer, and art.
Culture & Commentary
Jordanian and Long Beach love: Ammatolí’s dinner with Chef Ali Ghzawi reflects the beauty of our city’s best restaurant
There is much to be said about the stellar collaboration dinner between Ammatolí's Chef Dima Habibeh and Alee's Chef Ali Ghzawi—but the most powerful part was its unabashed display of Jordanian love.
Culture & Commentary
Step into the culinary world of Long Beach resident and Master Chef contender Richie Jones-Muhammad
The 28-year-old Long Beach resident opted to put music production on pause and pursue something he has never done professionally, only in the privacy of his own kitchen: cooking.
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
Long Beach Restaurant Week announces inaugural event with more than 40 spaces participating
LB Restaurant Week will be an annual, week-long celebration of Long Beach's rich and diverse culinary scene, honoring the resilience and creativity of the hospitality industry while also highlighting the many great restaurants throughout the city.
Events & Festivals
LA Wine Fest returns to Long Beach with unlimited tastings from nearly 40 wineries, breweries
The annual event—which moved from Los Angeles to Long Beach in 2019—is one of the region's largest wine-centric events (but don't worry: there's beer to break up the grape crushing).
Food & Drink
This North LB farm hosts magical dinners—and they’re about to become a monthly tradition
Chef Rod Dodd and his crew Organic Harvest Gardens have long embodied the spirit of community and food-as-a-connector—and the chef wants to extend that spirit as he invites more and more people to his humble plot for a trip to gastronomical church.
Events & Festivals
‘Cambodian Cowboy’ Chef Chad Puong to lead Cambo New Year celebration (Khmer beer from Ten Mile included)
The traditionally three-day celebration will have a kick-off at Trademark come April 2 and a formal celebration at Ten Mile on April 21.
Events & Festivals
West Coast Taco & Beer Festival—one of the largest in the country—is coming to Long Beach with unlimited beer tastings
The San Diego-based festival will be making two other stops this year outside of the border city: Bakersfield and Long Beach.
Events & Festivals
This six-chef, eight-cocktail dinner in Long Beach will explore dishes from all 32 Mexican states—yes, 32
Headed by Chef Ulises Pineda-Alfaro of El Barrio Cantina and the pastor pirates that are husband-and-wife team Elvia Huerta and Alex Garcia of Evil Cooks, this will truly be a dinner unlike any other—nor as big.
Culture & Commentary
Cali Chilli continues to shine a light on Indian cuisine with Michelin-recognized Chef Manjunath Mural’s private dinner
Cali Chilli continues represent an idea of Indian food that really doesn't exist in much of the region, a space where traditional and innovation mix—and the prix fixe dinner of Chef Mural, visiting from Singapore, exemplifies that.
Events & Festivals
Food-a-looza wants to become the community-driven, monthly go-to for food trucks and popups
While Los Angeles and Orange County thrive with food markets like Smorgasburg and 626 Night Market, Long Beach wants to have something of its own—and that's where Food-a-looza comes in, hoping to become a monthly event.
Events & Festivals
Not quite yet: Bixby Knolls to celebrate ‘almost’ St. Patrick’s Day with bus, beers, and badass-ery
Sure, St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday this year—but for those looking for a much less hectic, more more organized affair that is both kid-friendly and worry-less, look no further than Bixby Knolls's annual Almost St. Patrick's Day tradition.
Events & Festivals
What to (unquestionably) eat and drink at the Long Beach Tamale Festival
The Long Beach Tamale Festival is now back on Dec. 4, this year with more vendors which means more tamales and more things to try. Here are my top picks for who you should visit and what you should be bite into.
Food & Drink
Miracle at The Ordinarie returns to DTLB with more walk-in space, wall-to-wall decorations
After a non-stop, packed-to-the-brim celebration last year, The Ordinarie in DTLB is returning to its annual holiday takeover that is Miracle.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach Night Market makes second go at activating DTLB with a mini food heaven, from Cambodian chicken wings to musubi
The inaugural LB Night Market drew hundreds of people—a double-win for the downtown as foot traffic remains slow and events remain sparse.
Food & Drink
This in-the-kitchen chef’s table is not just an ode to Mexico but one of Long Beach’s best kept secrets
With an immigrant's love (and longing) for their home, Chef Manuel Bañuelos and his wife Fernanda have created a Mexican gem with Fonda Tobalá—and reach new heights with their chef's table.
Events & Festivals
For the love of horror and hops: Over 40 breweries invade Long Beach for Halloween Hootenanny
The team behind Festival Obscura, Martin and Ryan Hughes-Svab, along with Craft Beer LB founder Dennis Trilles, are gearing up for their annual celebration of beer, cider, horror, and Long Beach.
Events & Festivals
What to (unquestionably) eat and drink at the inaugural Taste of Bixby Knolls
Bixby Knolls has long been a place cherished by Long Beach locals—and it is about time that its growing food scene gets an event all its own. Hence, Taste of Bixby Knolls, invading the neighborhood come Oct. 16.
Food & Drink
‘Roots’ dinner series invites patrons to explore the origins of food through Long Beach restaurants
Knowing where our food comes from should be an essential part to the Long Beach food scene but isn't—which is precisely why Brian Addison and James Tir (aka LBFoodComa of Instagram) have created this special series.
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.
Events & Festivals
Nationwide hard seltzer festival Seltzerland makes pitstop in Long Beach
Get your White Girl Drunk on with over 100 hard seltzer tastings as Seltzerland comes to Long Beach for the first time after birthing its fizzy baby earlier this summer.
Food & Drink
Pure joy: Miracle at The Ordinarie returns to DTLB to bring cheer (and cocktails) for all
After being forced to have a walk-through experience last year due to the pandemic, The Ordinarie in DTLB is returning to its annual holiday takeover that is Miracle.
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.
