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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Walt’s Wharf prepares to reopen; Wicked Wolf unveils summer menu; 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: Taste of DTLB kicks off; coffeeshop-meets-billiards club 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 Beer Lab partners with Sublime to bring a band beer back home
Long Beach Beer Lab has formally partnered with Sublime to create a Mexican lager that has already won medals.
Food & Drink
Much-hyped, Inglewood-born Storm Burger to open location in Long Beach
Storm Burger Long Beach is coming to Cherry and South, drive-thru lovers.
Food & Drink
CoffeeDrunk—Long Beach’s continually expanding shop—offers a lesson in ambition, community centeredness
CoffeeDrunk is one of Long Beach's most defining coffee shops—and it is quickly expanding.
Food & Drink
Ten Mile Brewing expands food offerings (and into O.C. with full restaurant)
Ten Mile Brewing—the medal-grabbing brewery that might be in Signal Hill but is undoubtedly thoroughly Long Beach—has long been experimenting with food. They were...
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Olive & Rose shutters bagel concept; Lazy Dough previews; 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
Expanding into L.A., Long Beach’s Cali Chilli continues to showcase contemporary Indian cuisine
Cali Chilli has not only been continually updating its menu since opening in 2022 but but continues to define (and defy) the idea of what Indian food can be in Long Beach.
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Walt’s Wharf inches toward reopening; Tantulum celebrates 20 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 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.
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
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.
Food & Drink
Beloved independent brewer Brouwerij West to permanently shutter operations in ‘a month or two’
Now, Brouwerij West, the San Pedro brewery that brought mixed-fermentation brews to SoCal, is shuttering after nearly nine years of serving the community.
Food & Drink
San Pedro Fish Market to return to Pedro waterfront, open new location in Monterey’s Fisherman’s Wharf
San Pedro Fish Market has big news: It returns to its roots as a San Pedro harbor-facing restaurant and will open another location in Monterey's famed Fisherman's Wharf.
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Long Beach’s Trademark Brewing to open second location at Enclave in Torrance
Award-winning Long Beach brewery Trademark Brewing is officially expanding into Torrance.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Colossus expanding; Candy Warehouse closing; 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
Ferris wheel on the water? Updated renderings, new proposals for San Pedro’s massive West Harbor development
While this year's arrival quickly wiped away the hopes of opening in late 2023—it has now been pushed to 2026—the West Harbor San Pedro developers have taken a tangible step forward. And that is with the completion of the development’s first building, dubbed Building 1A.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Chef Melissa Ramsay leaves Angel’s share; 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.
Culture & Commentary
2028 Summer Olympics and Long Beach: Your guide to everything happening
The 2028 Summer Olympics will be hosted by our neighbor to the north—and it will have massive impacts on Long Beach. Here is your complete guide to what is being proposed, where things are happening, and what improvements (yes, improvements!) are happenin
Food & Drink
Long Beach popup Brother’s Keeper BBQ wins Bludso-led competition
Maurice "Mo" Stewart, the man behind the underrated Brother's Keeper BBQ popup, was named the best barbecue in the region.
Food & Drink
Seal Beach Fish Co. is the sole line-caught seafood restaurant in the region
Our neighbor to the south has some hidden gems worth exploring—Koi immediately comes to mind. So does the classic Mahe. But few are as unique as the Seal Beach Fish Co. In fact, it is the only line-caught seafood restaurant in the entire region.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: July 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.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s Jenni Rivera to receive posthumous star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
La Diva de la Banda herself, Jenni Rivera, will receive a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame come June 27. Fellow Mexican music star Gloria Trevi will speak during the ceremony while Rivera’s five children—Jacqie, Johnny, Jenicka, Michael, and her child-following-mom's-foosteps Chiquis—will accept the star on her behalf.
Food & Drink
Ribbro Long Beach soft opens with barbecue sandwiches until grand opening
Ribbro Long Beach has officially soft opened in Belmont Shore, serving sandwiches only until its grand opening in July. Owner Mark Lee is aiming for a July 2 formal opening—but that all depends on equipment and timing.
Culture & Commentary
Pride Month at its tiniest but brightest: Catalina Island Pride returns for third iteration
Catalina Island Pride returns for its third year in a row as the event continues to grow, from 4,000 its first year to over 6,000 last year. The single day event will take place on Saturday, June 15.
Food & Drink
Guisados Long Beach opens today with limited hours test run
Guisados Long Beach will open today at 10AM, with breakfast served through noon, and completing off lunch until 3PM.
Food & Drink
L.A. taco institution Guisados to open first Long Beach location
Taco lovers, rejoice: Famed Boyle Heights-birthed taco joint Guisados will move into the former Long Beach Fish Grill space on Redondo Avenue.
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
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.
Culture & Commentary
$77M Wilmington Waterfront Promenade is a win for entire region—especially Long Beach—when it opens this weekend
The transformation of Wilmington's waterfront—a three-part development that will see its second part, the Wilmington Waterfront Promenade, open this weekend—is the largest green space projects in one of the region's most air quality poor neighborhoods.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Walt’s Wharf catches fire; former Octopus space back up for lease; 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: Harbor closes in DTLB; El Esquite opens in West 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.
Culture & Commentary
Lyrics’n’Long Beach: Before you watch The Vince Staples Show, learn about the real, local places he’ll likely reference
If there is one thing to say about Long Beach rapper Vince Staples—beyond the obvious lyrical and melodic talents—it is that Staples is a cultural commentator like no other, a quiet observer and, in a very urban-meets-academic sense, an ethnographer. So it was only a certain amount of time before he was offered his own show—and Netflix has done that with The Vince Staples Show, premiering Feb. 15 on the streaming network.
Food & Drink
Praise the rolled taco gods: How the OG, San Diego-based Adalberto’s quietly slipped into Long Beach
For many who have depended on the yes-but-not-quite San Diego-style of La Taqueria Mexicana on 4th, there is a sense of joy that, very quietly, the Adalberto's family has decided to expand well beyond San Diego and opened their first shop quietly on 7th Street last year.
Food & Drink
Miss Beachwood Brewing in Downtown Long Beach? Don’t skip out on their Huntington Beach pizzeria
Yes, there is a certain lament at the loss of Beachwood Brewing in Downtown Long Beach—but that has been more than covered by Ian McCall and the crew at ISM Brewing, from their stellar beer to their solid food offerings. But sometimes the pang of nostalgia is far too heavy—and we want to return to days when one could sit at a counter, eat some grub, and order a Beachwood brew inside a Beachwood space.
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
Michelin-recognized Chef Imran Ali Mookhi to open Desi-focused Shor restaurant in Hawaiian Gardens (premium mocktail bar included)
In Fullerton, Chef Imran Ali Mookhi—the chef behind Fullerton's Michelin-recognized Khan Saab—will be opening his Desi-focused Shor restaurant in Hawaiian Gardens come 2024.
Food & Drink
Long Beach coffee scene continues to alter as Cafablanca, donation-based coffee cart, moves to Downtown L.A.
The Long Beach coffee scene is changing and evolving continuously—and this bittersweet change is one that Alamitos Beach will certainly have a pang in its heart over.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach’s Cambodian Cowboy partners with Inglewood’s Three Weavers Brewing for Cambo-coffee stout beer
Inglewood's OG craft brewery Three Weavers and the Cambodian Cowboy himself
Food & Drink
San Pedro Fish Market’s flagship operation to temporarily serve out of Brouwerij West
The (rightfully) adored brewery in San Pedro will act as the new home for San Pedro Fish Market's center of operations after plans to stay at their original location—what is now becoming an entire overhaul of the town's Ports O' Call area on the waterfront—fell through.
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
Bungalow Kitchen opens second (and even more luxurious) location in NorCal
After opening the first kitchen spinoff of the Bungalow Lounge bar spaces in Long Beach, Chef Michael Mina and aura master Brent Bolthouse take their partnership to the next level in Tiburon.
Culture & Commentary
Stop calling your food ‘Nashville hot’ when it’s not—because there’s history there
The first time I ever had Kim Prince’s Nashville hot chicken—she’s the niece of André Prince Jeffries, the matriarch behind Nashville’s iconic, James Beard...
