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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
The essential Long Beach pizza list
Our city's pizza game has never been stronger: From Neapolitan and Roman to Californian and American, Long Beach has a love for the pie that is finally rivaling our sister city to the north.
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
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
Your guide to Long Beach Halloween drinks and food: 2024 Edition
Much to the pleasure of spook lovers, we are witnessing a horrifying growth in Long Beach Halloween drinks and food menus this year—more than any year previously.
Culture & Commentary
Dragula watch party, weekly drag show comes to DTLB’s 4th Horseman for all those dark queers’n’drag lovers
A Dragula watch party? At Long Beach's own horrorcore pizzeria, The 4th Horseman? Yes and yes. Long Beach drag misfit Girl Haggard will be...
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.
Events & Festivals
This Long Beach pizza tour visits four pizzerias in a double-decker booze bus
Come Sunday, Sept. 22, a red double-decker bus will come to pick up a crew for the inaugural Long Beach Pizza Tour.
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: 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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown moves forward; Flamin’ Curry opens second location; 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 4th Horseman’s expansion in Downtown Long Beach cements it as one of our most distinct pizzerias
The world of Long Beach pizza is vast and fiercely competitive. Amid the stretching and proofing and topping, The 4th Horseman has managed to stand out as a horrorcore ode to the mightily humble pie.
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
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.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Granada Deli & Liquor, Tap House, Kpasta close; Auld Dub turns 20; 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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Tacos La Carreta and Pizza Parlor LB pair up for a pie gone Sinaloense
Two Long Beach food giants—the rightfully lauded Tacos La Carreta on the Northside and the underrated Pizza Parlor LB in East Long Beach—are partnering up for a pizza collaboration that features the five-day proofed sourdough base of the Parlor with the famed Sinaloa-style carne asada and charred Anaheim chiles of Tacos La Carreta.
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Pizza Parlor LB is East Long Beach’s hidden, underrated carby gem
Pizza Parlor LB—the East Long Beach pizzeria that plays sibling to Coffee Parlor, both owned and operated by Long Beach native Josh Knight—has grasped the Long Beach pizza zeitgeist by the crust to deliver the best pizza on the Eastside.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Grill ‘Em all inches toward opening; various new shops opening; 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
Amid absurd rent hike and landlord turmoil, Milana’s Brooklyn Squares to relocate
With a 30% rent hike, the owners of Milana's Brooklyn Squares have happily told their landlord a very simple message: Absolutely not.
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.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s 4th Horseman pizzeria to expand; Dark Art Emporium to move
The 4th Horseman—Long Beach's horrorcore-meets-metal, beer-gone-macabre, fuck-around-and-find-out-style of pies pizzeria—will be expanding: the Dark Art Emporium, the art gallery attached to the Horseman, will be moving over into the East Village Arts District next to House of Hayden while the Horseman will push into the gallery space for its expansion.
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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
Speak Cheezy’s kinda-New Haven, sorta-cold cheese pie is one of the best in the Long Beach pizza scene
In what is undoubtedly a renaissance within the Long Beach pizza scene, Chef Jason Winters has created the thin-crust, cheese pizza of our dreams at Speak Cheezy.
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.
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.
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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.
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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: The perfect LB soup list?; Colossus does pizza every day; 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
Unlimited pizza, beer, and art viewing? 4th Horseman to celebrate LB Restaurant Week with one-night event (including Brian Addison-curated pizza)
The first event celebrating and leading up to August's Long Beach Restaurant Week is one filed with (a ton of) pizza, beer, and art.
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Respected Long Beach Vegan Pizza popup to move into 4th Street space, rebrand as Mangiafoglie
Vegans, rejoice: Largely recognized as the best vegan pizza—specifically its pepperoni version—in the city, "LBVP," as it called among patrons, will rebrand as Mangiafolie and move into a brick-and-mortar.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: AAPI Heritage Month Edition
Longbeachize continues to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: Brian Addison's monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and this month is dedicated to AAPI-owned or -inspired places and dishes.
Food & Drink
Speak Cheezy is one of the city’s best pizzerias—and its family is deeply rooted with the Asian community
Longbeachize continues to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: Speak Cheezy owner Jason Winters and his family hold a deep attachment to the Asian community and culture, resulting in stellar pizza collabs with Long Beach legends like Gemmae Bake Shop and the Cambodian Cowboy himself, Chef Chad Phuong of Battambong BBQ.
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.
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DTLB’s 4th Horseman to show ‘f*cked up, weird, obscure’ films every last Wednesday of the month
The monthly event not only further cements The 4th Horseman as the epicenter of the macabre in Long Beach but highlights its owners' vast knowledge and love of strange if not outright peculiar and perturbing filmmaking.
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Essential Long Beach pizza list: 2023 Edition
Our city's pizza game has never been stronger: From Neapolitan and Roman to Californian and American, Long Beach has a love for the pie that is finally rivaling our sister city to the north.
Food & Drink
Rance’s Chicago Pizza is Long Beach’s heartfelt, nerdily-researched ode to the mighty deep dish of The Windy City
While some have the misconception that Rance's is a huge chain—there's only one other location, their OG, hole-in-the-wall location in Costa Mesa—the real story is is that two childhood friends bonded over deep-dish and a potential future business.
Food & Drink
Ten Mile Brewing already serves great beer—but they also serve Long Beach’s most underrated pizza
Father-and-son team Dan and Jesse Sundstrom have created a brewery that has won them some of the most distinguished awards in the industry—and now, Jesse is tackling one of the city's most-loved sectors of food: pizza.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Feburary 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: January 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
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
Former Scratch bakery space to become Speak Cheezy, extension of L.A.’s popular mobile sourdough pizzeria
Long Beach chef Jason Winters expands his mobile pizzeria—an underground hit as he drove his oven-on-wheels throughout the streets of L.A.—with a formal brick-and-mortar in the heart of Belmont Heights.
Food & Drink
It was supposed to be a bodega: The unlikely story of Little Coyote Long Beach
The birth of Little Coyote—one of the city's most respected pizzerias—came out of stressful stretching-too-thin, persistent pivots, and good ol' gluten.
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Famed Napoli pizzeria L’Antica expands U.S. presence by moving into Long Beach
Two years after opening its flagship California location in Hollywood, L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele will move into Long Beach, taking over the former Papalucci space in Belmont Shore.
