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Naples
Food & Drink
Michael’s on Naples has a rooftop brunch that is beautifully unique (and comes with $1 mimosas)
Mother's Day marked the return of Michael's on Naples' much-loved rooftop brunch. This round, however, marks a distinct turn from brunches of past.
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
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
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.
Culture & Commentary
Remembering Dickie Babian: Legendary Long Beach bar owner dead at 90
After celebrating his 90th year, Long Beach dive bar legend Dickie Babian passed on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 21.
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown open late on Friday, Saturday; 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.
Urbanism & Development
Stoner Residence: Nonprofit urges Long Beach residents to save a Naples mid-mod masterpiece
It is dubbed the Stoner Residence, a mid-century modern masterpiece from Ray Kappe. And the conservationist nonprofit Docomomo—using its Southern California chapter—is leading a charge to save the space from demolition.
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.
Culture & Commentary
The $100 bagel and $85 calzone: Redefining (and questioning) luxury food in Long Beach
Yes, in Long Beach in 2024, there exists a $100 bagel at Olive & Rose and a calzone at Marlena costing you $85.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Mangette closes; Fluffy’s Sno-Ball owner dies; 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
Less than six months after opening, 4 Shore up for sale in Naples
Less than six months after opening, 4 Shore in Naples has permanently shuttered. Even more, its space is up for sale just weeks after owner Joshua Sanchez said the closing was "temporary."
Food & Drink
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.
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
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
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Maru Maki closes; Small Cafe reopens today under new owners; 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: 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.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 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
Marlena’s brunch proves why it is Long Beach’s best new restaurant
Marlena—one of Long Beach's newest restaurants from newly minted restaurateur Robert Smith, Chef Michael Ryan, hospitality maestro Debra Zelenka, and cocktail connoisseur David Castillo—has quickly garnered a loyal legion of patrons.
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.
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.
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: 4 Shore sign goes up in Naples; ISM launches brunch; 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: Unlimited booze event to benefit Garage Theatre; Beer Lab opens in Zaferia; 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: Altar Society soft opens; Cookie Plug to expand into LB; 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
Taking over former Chianina space, upcoming ‘4 Shore’ bucks trends with dress code, mandatory bottle service
The former Chianina space in Naples, Long Beach—which has long had an application notice for a change of ownership belonging to Drizzy Enterprise LLC—will...
Food & Drink
Marlena, a Mediterranean concept, to take over former Russo’s space in Naples
Over four years after the Italian restaurant closed in Naples, restaurateur Robert Smith plans to turn the space into a wood-fired oven-centric restaurant.
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
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.
