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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: May 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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: April 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 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
Black-owned Mangiafoglie is a welcomed addition to a dwindling Long Beach vegan scene
Mangiafolie, Chef Paul Reese's first dive into the world of restaurants after running a vegan pizza popup, has officially opened its doors on 4th.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 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
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.
Food & Drink
Michael’s on Naples proudly offers one of Long Beach’s strongest wine and cocktail programs
Michael's on Naples is a libation lover's paradise—which is why the restaurant will host a spectacular, five-wine tasting for Long Beach Last Call 2025 and Jolly will serve up two special cocktails.
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
Ellie’s new lunch prix fixe menu lets you eat a three-course dinner for lunch prices
Ellie's newly minted lunch prix fixe menu is one of the many ways the Alamitos Beach staple is trying to better cater to all aspects of its community.
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
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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Dec. 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
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.
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
Chef Jason Witzl is back, Long Beach—and takes Ellie’s to a full return to form
Chef Jason Witzl of Ellie's has had one helluva 2024—and his new menu at Ellie's proves that it's only getting better.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Sept. 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
Waldo’s Pizza is the brainchild of a dough-making master you didn’t know even know was a master
Waldo Stout, the charismatic, humble leader of Waldo's Pizza, has a culinary pedigree like no other.
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 pasta is having a beautifully carby renaissance—here are the essentials
The creation and serving of Long Beach pasta—created in-house by restaurants both new and old—is having a renaissance.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now: Long Beach Food Scene Week Edition
Given we just ended the 10-day celebration that was Long Beach Food Scene Week, I wanted to share dishes I discovered that went beyond...
Food & Drink
Nearly 15 years in, Milana’s New York Pizzeria spearheaded Long Beach’s pizza renaissance
It is practically impossible to talk about pizza in Long Beach without talking about Milana's New York Pizzeria.
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: I Luv Ur Buns brick-and-mortar grand opening; Sake Secrets burglarized; 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
Michael’s Downtown to permanently shutter; Ubuntu Cafe to take over
Michael's Downtown—the DTLB extension from the Michael's Restaurant Group—will be permanently shuttering to make way for a second Ubuntu Cafe location.
Food & Drink
Bar Becky—one of Long Beach’s best new restaurants—takes vegetarian love to new level with farmers market series
Bar Becky in East Long Beach—the debut restaurant of Hell's Kitchen alumni Chef Johnathan Benvenuti—is one of the city's best new restaurants. And the...
Food & Drink
Nonna Mercato debuts dinner service, offering up one of Long Beach’s best prix fixe menus
Nonna Mercato—the bistro-meets-bakery-meets market of Bixby Knolls—has long been serving up some of the city's finest baked goods and pastas. With Chef Cameron Slaugh at the helm, they formally dive into dinner service.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: La Parolaccia expands; Roll ‘Em Up opens in Lakewood; 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: June 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: 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.
Food & Drink
Meet the Sicilian godmother of Long Beach, feeding us one arancini and cannoli at a time
She calls herself the Godmother of Long Beach, a Palermo-born mother who has decided post-divorce to do one pretty wild endeavor: Park herself at the southeast corner of Ocean Boulevard and Bennett Avenue, pop up a tent, set up a frier and stovetop, and serve up massive balls of arancini, stuffed-to-order cannolis, and more.
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
Michael’s on Naples has one of the city’s strongest cocktail programs—so why do so few know about it?
Michael's on Naples has been known for many things, be it their long-held steel grip on regional Italian cuisine or their dive into creating a sustainable market or... But their cocktail program, headed by master mixologist Jocelyn Jolly, is certainly an underrated gem of a space that deserves constant praise (and yet receives so little).
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
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
Michael’s Market—Naples’s mini Italian deli-meets-grocer—is a practice in sustainability, community
"Michael's Market has always been an extension of Michael's on Naples, of everything we use in the restaurant," said Executive Chef Eric Samaniego, pointing...
Food & Drink
Michael’s on Naples breaks cardinal rule and goes full Italian-American
At Michael's, as has always been the case, one will not find plates of chicken or eggplant parmigiana. That's changed—at least on Tuesdays, when the Italian staple goes full-on Italian-American with their "Brooklyn Nights" offerings.
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
Chefs of Ammatolí, La Parolaccia vying for best chef in California at James Beard Awards
Following the announcement that Gusto Bread is a semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery, the James Beard Awards—the nation's most prestigious food honors—have put forth Chef Dima Habibeh of Ammatolí and Chefs Stefano and Michael Procaccini of La Parolaccia as semifinalists for Best Chef in California.
Events & Festivals
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: La Traviata opens new casual concept; new Indian eatery and birrieria 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
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
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Grill ‘Em All signage up; Ten Mile to test burgers at event; 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
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.
Events & Festivals
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: L’Antica in Shore, Beachwood at 2nd & PCH opening in coming months; 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: September 2023
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.
Culture & Commentary
Steve Dolinsky, Chicago’s ‘Food Guy,’ took a tour of Long Beach’s restaurant scene—and why that matters
A 13-time James Beard award winner, one of the pioneers of local videographic food storytelling, and an overall great human, Steve Dolinsky decided to take a tour through Long Beach's food scene—guided by yours truly and James Tir.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: April 2023
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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: September 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
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
Vino e Cucina in East Long Beach seeks to present classic hospitality in a world increasingly removed from connection
In an age where food is increasingly removed from the hands that make and serve it—amid the rise of Postmates and ghost kitchens—Lorenzo Mottola of Vino e Cucina seeks to create a return to classic Italian hospitality in an area of Long Beach long known for lacking quality food.
Food & Drink
Michael’s on Naples introduced Long Beach to farm-to-table food—and continues to do so 15 years in
Echoing his own experience in Italy, Michael's on Naples General Manager Massimo Arrone saw potential in mimicking that experience in Long Beach—an effect that continues over a decade later.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: October 2021
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
With chef competitiveness at a pandemic high, Chef Jason Witzl returns to old-school Italian
As kitchens reopen to a capacity they haven't seen since before the pandemic, some chefs are aiming high—but Chef Jason Witzl is returning to the simplicity of old-school Italian cuisine.
Food & Drink
Buona Gente permanently closes after serving Belmont Shore for over three decades
One of Long Beach's oldest restaurants—and a long staple along the Shore—has permanently closed.
Food & Drink
Chef Jason Witzl shutters deli concept, ditches Zaferia move as Ellie’s Long Beach returns to original home
It ain't easy out there for restaurants—and especially for Ellle's Long Beach, as Chef Jason Witzl is forced to abandon the restaurant's move to the much-lauded, soon-to-likely-shutter Compound art complex in Zaferia. There is, however, a silver lining: Ellie's will return to its full glory at its original location in Alamitos Beach.
Food & Drink
Chianina steakhouse to permanently close; Michael’s on Naples closed indefinitely
Michael Dene Carl said the pair had to face "two extremely tough decisions:" To close Michael's on Naples Ristorante indefinitely and to permanently close their steakhouse Chianina.
