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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Feb. 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
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
The Attic’s fully revamped menu proves the restaurant—once again—wants to shift the Long Beach food scene
The Attic—for the first time in three years—has revamped its entire menu head-to-toe. And with that, brings some of Long Beach's most exciting food in a world where comfort-seeking and familiarity rule the day.
Food & Drink
Your guide to Long Beach holiday drinks and food: 2024 Edition
Much to the pleasure of spook lovers, we are witnessing a horrifying growth in Long Beach holiday drinks and food menus this year—more than any year previously.
Food & Drink
The Attic happily skips the warm in favor of the bright for holiday cocktail menu
The Attic on Broadway has unveiled its holiday cocktail menu, joining the wonderful plethora of spaces that are partaking in creating holiday menus.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Many more closures; Hartland’s scores alcohol license; 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
Miracle at The Ordinarie returns to Downtown Long Beach with new drinks (Christmasaurus mug included)
Miracle at The Ordinarie has officially returned to Downtown Long Beach, bringing SanTaRex, Christmasaurus, Krampus, lights, booze, and plenty of holiday cheer.
Food & Drink
Broken Spirits in Long Beach goes all-in on ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’-themed holiday dinners
Broken Spirits Distillery in Downtown Long Beach is getting into the holiday spirit with not jingly bells but in a more macabre way.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Oct. 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
Cameron Slaugh proves he is Long Beach’s most underrated chef with The Attic’s ‘Southern Nights’ dinners
Chef Cameron Slaugh's "Southern Night" prix fixe dinners every Friday and Saturday evening prove he continues to be the city's most underrated chef.
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
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.
Food & Drink
SnoCorner Halloween beignets: The cutest spooky eats in Long Beach
Three words: SnoCorner Halloween beignets. Oh yes, Long Beach, our finest purveyor of New Orleans sweets has taken their locally famous beignets to the dark depths of utterly horrifying... Cuteness.
Food & Drink
ISM Brewing and the return of pub food: Scotch, pickled, and deviled egg offerings rock
Pickled. Scotch. Deviled. Deviled Scotch. Eggs galore for ISM Brewing's awesome new menu items.
Food & Drink
This Long Beach whiskey dinner sends you home with a bottle of single-barrel bourbon
A Long Beach whiskey dinner that lets you walk away with your own bottle of proprietary, single-barrel Woodford Reserve? Oh yes.
Food & Drink
The Panxa Hatch chile roast tradition returns this weekend (Speak Cheezy pizza collab included)
The Panxa Hatch Chile Roast Festival—an annual tradition started by Chef Art Gonzalez and his wife, current owner Vanessa Auclair—returns this weekend, Sept. 14 and 15.
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.
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
SnoCorner is Long Beach’s ultimate ode to the sweets of New Orleans
Snocorner—the bright, tricolorized snoball shop directly across from Poly High School—is one helluva ode to the sweet treats of New Orleans.
Food & Drink
The Ordinarie continues its dedication to Americana culture with its brightest, most comforting menu yet
The Ordinarie has long been one of the staples of The Promenade in Downtown Long Beach—and its newest menu reflects that dedication to high quality and great aura.
Food & Drink
Bojangles to dip its deep-fried toe into L.A. County for first time with 30 locations, including Long Beach
Bojangles, the Charlotte-based restaurant chain birthed in the 1970s and famous for its Cajun-style fried chicken, has announced the signing of a 30-unit agreement...
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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: January 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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Two new vegan restaurants open; Sushi Nikkei expands hours in 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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: October 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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: L’Antica in Shore, Beachwood at 2nd & PCH opening in coming months; 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 storied history of the woman behind Long Beach’s best gumbo joint, Sal’s Gumbo Shack
"Sal's Gumbo Shack started because someone got tired of a company thinkin' they knew what they hell they were doing. Sal's Gumbo Shack started...
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: September 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
OC-based Chicken University opens its first location in Bixby Knolls
Opening its first location in Fullerton in 2017, Chicken University became an instantaneous hit, garnering over 100,000 followers on Instagram and constant lines of students seeking decadent fried fusion offerings.
Events & Festivals
Tasso, cochon de lait, crawfish boil: Ten Mile Brewing to host mini-Cajun festival with Battambong BBQ and Shady Grove Foods
Ten Mile will have tasso and cream pizza and killer shrimp. Battambong will have a crawfish boil and Asian-Cajun dirty rice. Shady Grove Foods will have smoked meatloaf and gumbo ya-ya. What is there not to love?
Food & Drink
Famed Memphis fried chicken shop Gus’s permanently shutters Long Beach location
It was Long Beach's formal introduction to Memphis hot chicken—and honestly deserved more time to become as consistent as its Arlington Heights sister in Los Angeles.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: September 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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: July 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
Cajun meets smokey: The father-and-son team of Shady Grove Foods to take over Restauration space
After its previous tenant had a less-than-graceful exit from the local food scene, the prime real estate that is the former Restauration space on 4th Street is a restaurateur's dream—and the Robicheaus hope to offer something entirely different as they take over the space.
Food & Drink
How The Attic on Broadway in Long Beach went from Instagram-brunch to Michelin-recognized
Though there was a seemingly endless line of patrons constantly at The Attic, owner Steve Massis and Chef Cameron Slaugh held a mutual sentiment: It could not only be better but it could be great.
Food & Drink
FireBird—the Nashville hot chicken staple—to close Long Beach location
FireBird, the space which can easily be pinpointed as the heart of the Nashville hot chicken craze that eventually saw a seemingly endless amounts of mimics invade the city, will be closing its Long Beach doors on September 26.
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...
