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Long Beach Food Scene: Last Call
Events & Festivals
Long Beach Last Call’s celebration of bar culture draws the crowds for second year
Long Beach Last Call 2025—a 13-event celebration of our city's bar scene across 10 days—saw hundreds upon hundreds of people pour out to honor one of the most thankless industries, our bar and cocktail culture.
Food & Drink
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.
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
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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The ultimate Downtown Long Beach bar crawl is returning—and it’s essential for the neighborhood
The DTLB bar crawl returns thanks to support from the Downtown Long Beach Alliance. And it does so on Friday, Mar. 7 beginning at 6PM at Altar Society.
Food & Drink
Essential cocktails to drink during Long Beach Last Call 2025
Long Beach Last Call 2025 isn't just about the events. It's also about the incredible, for-this-event-only creations by some of our city's most talented mixologists.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s The Attic is a prime example of business evolution—its cocktail program included
There is no way to discuss The Attic without discussing evolution—and that means both its food and cocktails.
Food & Drink
One year in, Broken Spirits continues to evolve as it centers its Long Beach presence
As we push toward celebrating Long Beach Last Call 2025—a 10-day, multi-event celebration of our city’s rich bar culture and the people who make...
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
The Stache continues its evolution as Long Beach’s most distinct kinda-specialty-still-divey spaces
The Stache Bar on 4th Street has long been a staple—but it is also kind of forgotten as to why it has been a staple in the first place. They're changing that.
Food & Drink
Hennessy is a cultural cog for many Long Beach communities. This tasting will explore its history.
For Long Beach Last Call 2025, Downtown Long Beach's Chez Bacchus will hosting a Hennessy tasting event.
Food & Drink
Marlena continues to be Long Beach’s history teacher in cocktails
Marlena bar manager David Castillo has always been, at his core, a history teacher. His menu for Long Beach Last Call is no exception.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
The Wicked Wolf pushes itself as Long Beach’s most underrated drinking spot
For those that know The Wicked Wolf, they know two things: its cocktails are fabulous and its leading lady, Thea Mercouffer.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
Wood & Salt Tavern continues to be the epicenter of the cocktail culture in Bixby Knolls
In a neighborhood bereft of proper bars, Wood & Salt and its beverage director, Gabriel Ducharme, are leading the neighborhood into what sophisticated, elevated drink programs look like.
Food & Drink
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.
Events & Festivals
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.
Culture & Commentary
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.
Food & Drink
Free shots, swag, secret tiki bartender: This Downtown Long Beach bar crawl explores all the right spots
A food group of 60,000 members and a five-destination Downtown Long Beach bar crawl. What could possibly go wrong?
Food & Drink
This free talk and zero-proof tasting will explore levels of sobriety in the Long Beach bar scene
The Long Beach Last Call tasting and discussion will explore what it means for a worker to be a part of an industry that is largely dedicated to serving alcohol and how that worker can not only practice various levels of sobriety should they feel they are slipping into darkness but healthily continue to work in the industry they love.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Oaxacan food, bundt cakes, closures, 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
El Barrio in Long Beach shares history with Mexican joints stretching back to 1950s
Yes, El Barrio took over the dive that was Ashley's, much to the cry of its patrons—but it's grown as a community staple and, even more, shares an interesting history with Mexican food.
Events & Festivals
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.
Food & Drink
Essential cocktails to drink during Long Beach Last Call
We have a lot going for our inaugural Long Beach Last call celebration but it isn't, of course, just about the events. It's also about the incredible, for-this-event-only creations that some of our city's most talented mixologists have concocted that also deserve some spotlight.
Food & Drink
Marlena’s cocktail program marks return of one of Long Beach’s finest bartenders
Marlena bar manager David Castillo is essentially working with an entirely blank slate–but he wants to return to honoring the history of cocktails with his Long Beach Last Call menu.
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There’s a free disco party aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach this weekend
The Queen Mary, in conjunction with Long Beach Last Call, will be hosting a free disco'n'funk party inside its Observation Bar on Saturday, Mar. 2 from 8PM to 11PM.
Food & Drink
The Attic’s (underrated) cocktail program stands on par with its (still underrated) food in Long Beach
The Attic in Long Beach has been consistently evolving—but that effort has seen its largest transformation across the past few years. Its stellar cocktail program is no exception.
Food & Drink
Selva has one of the most culinary-focused cocktail programs in Long Beach
The intent behind Selva has always been simple: Reflect the food of Colombia. And in this sense, Chef Carlos Jurado knew that cocktails—which are distinctly culinary yet never receive that very spotlight—were essential in creating his space. This is where mixologist Mike Borowski comes in.
Culture & Commentary
The Ordinarie rediscovered this cocktail birthed in Long Beach 65 years ago
Not only participating in a Long Beach Food Scene meet-up and DTLB crawl, The Ordinarie has a Last Call menu that is an ode to the locals.
Events & Festivals
Bamboo Club celebrates 5 years by calling on Long Beach bartenders for tiki cocktail competition
The Bamboo Club is unquestionably the epicenter of Long Beach's love of tiki bars and drinks—and it is hosting a cocktail competition to kick off its 5th birthday.
Culture & Commentary
New owners of Long Beach dive bar staple Crow’s want to make it, well, more Crow-y
To know Long Beach is to know its dive bars—and when it comes to the rich dive bar legends of Long Beach, few have the scope of status that is attached to Crow's. And its new owners want to return it to its 1990s divey glory.
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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.
Culture & Commentary
A look at the Madonna-themed cocktails for Long Beach’s queerest vinyl listening session
The Social List bar manager Erik Rios-Wentzky and local bar celeb and queer advocate Devon Jade have come up with a handful of beautiful, liquid odes to the Queen of Pop—all in the name of Long Beach Last Call's queerest event.
Food & Drink
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.
Events & Festivals
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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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.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’
Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."
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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.
