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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Polly’s Pie founder dead at 92; Mangiafoglie starts 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.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: May 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.
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Black-owned Mangiafoglie is a welcomed addition to a dwindling Long Beach vegan scene
Mangiafolie, Chef Paul Reese's first dive into the world of restaurants after running a vegan pizza popup, has officially opened its doors on 4th.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 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.
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Longtime DTLB, cold-press staple Rainbow Juices to serve last day on Jan. 30
Rainbow Juices, serving the community for nearly 15 years and hosting its space in Downtown Long Beach for a decade, will be serving its last drop of juice on Jan. 30.
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Mangiafolie—the 4th Street Southern Italian vegan space—will soft open on Jan. 22
Mangiafolie, the vegan space dedicated to Southern Italian cuisine and pastries, is soft opening Jan. 22 at 8AM.
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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.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Dec. 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.
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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.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: More closures, openings across city; Queen Mary seeks exec chef; 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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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...
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Long Beach vegan staple Seabirds Kitchen to permanently shutter Sept. 8
Seabirds Kitchen on 4th Street will permanently cease operations come Sept. 8. Chef and owner Stephanie Morgan's space has largely come to define elevated, contemporary vegan food in Long Beach.
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Long Beach’s The Wild Chive named one of the best brunch spots in the nation
Chef Soozee Nguyen and the entire Wild Chive team have definitive reason to celebrate: Yelp!—the user-determined restaurant aggregator that is simultaneously useful and one of the worst parts of the food industry—has determined that the Alamitos Beach vegan spot is one of the country's best for brunch.
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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.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Plunge, V-Burger close; BBQ fest to return; 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: LB Fish Grill, El Torito closing; Happy Cow rebrands; 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: 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.
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Long Beach’s first full-on vegan deli, The Plant Butchers, set to open Oct. 1 in DTLB
The plans from The Plant Butchers are ambitious, from a full array of vegan meats and cheeses to sandwiches and canned sauces—a welcomed addition to a scene that includes vegan pioneers like Seabirds and wildly inventive creatives like Chef Soozee Nguyen from Wild Chive.
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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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Tucked into the back of a retail complex is East Long Beach’s best hidden bar (with quality vegan dim sum)
Morning Nights didn't open with flying colors—but with some refinement, a made-to-order mandate, and a mini-oasis tucked into the back corner of The Hangar, it is one of Long Beach's most underrated spaces.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 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.
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Under the Sun—one of Long Beach’s pioneering vegan spaces—will close permanently after March 17
The DTLB raw vegan food venture launched by Rainbow Juices owners Chrissy Cox and Dawna Bass, Under the Sun, will have its last day of service come March 17.
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Popular L.A. vegan taco joint Sugar Taco readying to open Long Beach location, joining The Plant Butchers
With two existing locations in Los Angeles already—one in Sherman oaks and one in the heart of Melrose's most beloved stretch near Fairfax—Sugar Taco has garnered massive followings.
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Seabirds Kitchen has helped define vegan food in Long Beach—and continues to push toward the ethos of a better food world
Seabirds owner and vegan food master Stephanie Morgan has long dealt with ups and downs—this is the restaurant industry—but she has always maintained one very specific ideal: her food is more than just palate-pleasing but a call for the securing of a healthy future generation.
