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Hospitality & Tourism
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
This $500 cocktail is one of many the Fairmont Breakers will offer for the Long Beach Grand Prix
Perhaps there is nothing more extravagant than serving Louis XIII in a cocktail. That's exactly what the Fairmont Breakers is doing with one of its various Grand Prix-centric cocktail offerings.
Culture & Commentary
From the Arena to the Bowl: How Long Beach is returning to live music roots with massive changes and updates
From reclaiming the Long Beach Arena to opening a live music and performance amphitheater space opening at The Queen Mary this fall, Mayor Rex Richardson is doubling down as the Mayor of Amps.
Culture & Commentary
How Long Beach hotels are becoming second homes for evacuees; here are their offerings
A ton of Long Beach hotels have joined relief efforts across the county, offering evacuees discounts, free food, and more.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s Alley Cat Delivery delivers extinguishers to those defending homes and salvaging what they can
For the past six years, Robb Smith has been building his independent food delivery service, Alley Cat Delivery, in a locally driven, keep-it-Long-Beach effort...
Culture & Commentary
Through hell and back: How Right Mealz got three U-Hauls of supplies to first responders and evacuees
For Right Mealz owner Chris Sweeney, getting donations proved easier than delivering them to the right place.
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
Nettuno at Fairmont Breakers brings the glorious return of one of Long Beach’s best Italian chefs
Many first-timers or visitors likely don't know that Nettuno at the Fairmont Breakers welcomes back Chef Giuseppe Musso, a long-loved Long Beach Italian chef.
Food & Drink
Sky Room: The refined rebirth of a Long Beach culinary and cultural legend
Sky Room—one of two restaurants in the newly minted Fairmont Breakers hotel and spa in Downtown Long Beach—has returned.
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
The Sky Room at the Fairmont Breakers is officially taking reservations; here’s the inaugural menu
The famed Sky Room—the top-floor restaurant that has existed in DTLB since 1946—is accepting reservations on Open Table.
Urbanism & Development
A look inside the renovation of Long Beach’s mid-mod gem, the City Center hotel
The City Center hotel always had the bones to become an Ace-like space. Fabulously mid-century modern. Centrally located and within walking distance of everything from the Terrace Theatre to the Promenade. And now, it has the makeover it always deserved.
Urbanism & Development
Fairmont Breakers—years in the making—begins taking reservations Nov. 19
The Fairmont Breakers has been years in the making—and Long Beach's first luxury hotel is set to open Nov. 7.
Urbanism & Development
Renaissance to revamp, rebrand as Marriott Downtown Long Beach (new bar and restaurant included)
The Renaissance at Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue is undergoing a massive, interior revamp and will rebrand as the Marriott Downtown Long Beach when it formally reopens in the coming weeks.
Food & Drink
The Fairmont Breakers in Long Beach to open in fall; multiple food and bar spaces (like The Sky Room) included
The Fairmont Breakers—taking over the historic building that lines the southern end of Ocean between Collins Way and Locust Avenue—has what many are hoping to be an official opening date after many opening announcements that failed to follow through: Fall of 2024.
Culture & Commentary
31-story Hard Rock Hotel to break ground in Downtown Long Beach come 2024 (music venue in Jergins Tunnel included)
The mayor has said Hard Rock Hotel—taking over the southeast space at Ocean and Pine that has been empty for decades—is expected to break ground next year.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach needs its visitors bureau—so what is, if any, the controversy surrounding the Long Beach Convention Center?
The CVB—what is the Long Beach Convention Center and its Visitors Bureau—is separating into two different entities. That is not controversial but a good thing no matter which angle is examined.