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Food & Drink
The Pastry Club serves up some of Long Beach’s finest, most unique baked goods
The Pastry Club—the baked goods pop-up headed by Long Beach resident Joyce Lee—is one of the brightest gems to be found at the Bixby Park farmers market on Saturdays.
Culture & Commentary
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.
Food & Drink
Why the upcoming 4th Street farmers market is clutch for Long Beach chefs and the community
The new 4th Street farmers market will take over the Retro Row parking at the southeast corner of Cherry Avenue and 4th Street come June 5.
Food & Drink
Hey Brother Baker—Long Beach’s most underrated bakery—inches toward shop opening
Hey Brother Baker has long been Long Beach's most underrated bake shop—and now it's ready for its first brick-and-mortar.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Lazy Dough opening; plus omakase cocktails, pambazos, new farmers markets, 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
Once again, Long Beach’s Gusto is a finalist for prestigious James Beard award
Long Beach’s Gusto bakery, the Latin American-centric space that overtly overthrows Eurocentric ideals when it comes to baked goods, has officially become a finalist for...
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.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Syrian space opens in Wrigley; Knead in Signal Hill moves forward; 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
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
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
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Babette Bakery to close Nov. 3; 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
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.
Food & Drink
OBRA HandBakery—Long Beach’s king of baked empanadas—shares the love South America and the Carribean
OBRA Handbakery is the undisputed king of empanadas in Long Beach, having built up a decade-long patronage.
Food & Drink
The Vintage LBC in Bixby Knolls is, oh, so much more than a cheese shop
The Vintage LBC comes off as a cheese shop—and indeed, it is. But it is much, much more than that: it's a sandwich shop. Wine bar. Market. Hang-out space. It's all around pretty damn awesome.
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’s first Wild Fork Foods grocer to open Aug. 28; grand opening is Sept. 25
Exotic meat lovers rejoice: alligator, ostrich, bison, rabbit... These are just a few of the some 500 varieties of frozen meats and seafood—flash frozen...
Culture & Commentary
West Long Beach staple Gemmae Bake Shop officially takes over a fire station in Bixby Knolls
After months of negotiations with the City—including its Cultural Heritage Commission—it official. Filipino staple Gemmae Bake Shop will move into the now-abandoned Fire Station 9 in Bixby Knolls.
Food & Drink
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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Sprouts to open new grocery market by Long Beach traffic circle Oct. 11
Sprouts Long Beach, the latest location from the farmers market inspired grocer, will be opening Oct. 11.
Food & Drink
Crumbl Cookies is opening a Long Beach location—but has the hype died?
Crumbl Cookies, the massive Utah-based cookie chain that has opened over 1,000 locations since 2017, is finally coming to Long Beach. The new location will be next to Trader Joe's in the Marketplace complex at the southeast corner of Pacific Coast Highway and 2nd Street.
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Republic of Pie’s first Long Beach location soft opens July 4 in Belmont Shore
After Sancho's Tacos formally shuttered its space in Belmont Shore, it made way for North Hollywood staple Republic of Pie's first expansion beyond its original location. And it officially opens on Thursday, July 4.
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
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Little Coyote under new owner; multiple new spaces 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: Turkish sweets shop opens in Belmont Shore; Jerry’s Place up for sale; 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
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.
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
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
Gusto Bread formally becomes Long Beach’s first James Beard finalist
Long Beach’s Gusto Bread, the Latin American-centric space that overtly overthrows Eurocentric ideals when it comes to baked goods, has officially become a finalist for Outstanding Bakery in the 2024 James Beards awards, the nation’s most prestigious food honors.
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Kauai-birthed taro donut kings Holey Grail to open first Long Beach location
Holey Grail—the Hawai'i based taro donut concept that was birthed out of a food truck before opening multiple brick-and-mortars on the mainland—will be opening its first Long Beach location, taking over the former Earl of Sandwich shop that closed earlier this year.
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
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Beer Lab’s move into Zaferia reminds the city they’ve always been fermenting pioneers
Long Beach Beer Lab—birthed in Wrigley, now with a sister in the Zaferia District, also home to the Long Beach Bread Lab—has long been a leader in fermentation and bread-making but is often dismissed or outright ignored in the larger conversation surrounding the city's growing reputation as a sourdough-y, bread-birthing center.
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’s Gusto bakery a semifinalist for prestigious James Beard award
Long Beach's Gusto bakery, the Latin American-centric space that overtly overthrows Eurocentric ideals when it comes to baked goods, has officially become a semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery in the 2024 James Beards awards.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Bottlecraft license suspended; See’s Candy opens 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
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
Former Ruby’s at 2nd & PCH to become Long Beach’s first Wild Fork Foods grocer
Exotic meat lovers rejoice: alligator, ostrich, bison, rabbit... These are just a few of the some 500 varieties of frozen meats and seafood—flash frozen at some -40 degrees to reduce crystallization—offered by Wild Fork Foods, opening its first Long Beach location inside the former Ruby's space at the southeast corner of 2nd Street and Pacific Coast Highway.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: George’s Greek Cafe sells DTLB location; Zankou opening this month; lots 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
Candified doesn’t just give The Candy Queen a storefront—it represents everything beautiful about women friendships
Through the power of serendipity, commiseration, and sisterly love, Jackie Sorkin and Amy Mason have created a world which celebrates candy, color, and community.
Food & Drink
Yes, Chef: This Long Beach baker made customized cookies for some of the folks behind ‘The Bear’
Alenni Chitwood went from innocently baking cookies for her kid's first birthday to having clients ranging from Lexus and Barbie to none other than FX's monumental restaurant drama, "The Bear."
Food & Drink
Knead Donuts & Tea continues to expand empire with new Cerritos location
One of Long Beach's most loved and respected donut shops, the Cambodian-American gem that is Knead, has expanded beyond the city limits and has officially opened its doors in a new location in Cerritos.
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
Nonna Mercato is just the bakery (and coming-soon bistro) that Bixby Knolls deserves
Coming off the success of completely altering the quality and vibe of The Attic, business partners Chef Cameron Slaugh and Steve Massis move into the carby world of bakery-meets-bistro.
Food & Drink
The creamy, dreamy, silky, milky, cheesy world of Long Beach’s Oh La Vache
Owners Erika Ponzo and Jessica Sarwine jumped into the lactescent world of cheese mid-pandemic—and in return, have created a cheese shop that Long Beach definitively deserves.
Culture & Commentary
Wine Country in Long Beach: How the generous, curious spirit of one man brought wine culture to our city
For nearly 30 years, Long Beach native Randy Kemner has been on a small-but-mighty mission: To hopefully alter one person's perception of wine at a time in the hopes that all of America's wine culture can become better.
