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Cambodia Town & Zaferia District
Food & Drink
Hey Brother Baker—Long Beach’s most underrated bakery—inches toward shop opening
Hey Brother Baker has long been Long Beach's most underrated bake shop—and now it's ready for its first brick-and-mortar.
Food & Drink
Union at Compound—one of Long Beach’s most unique spaces—expands into lunch
Chef Eugene Santiago—the founder of the Southeast Asian fusion pop-up Baryo and the head honcho at Union at Compound—has taken on the lunch hour at his restaurant-inside-an-art-gallery.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: From Japanese to donuts, lots of new openings across city
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’s Buvons officially opens French-meets-Californian restaurant space
After a month of experimenting in the kitchen, Buvons Wine Bar, the restaurant expansion from the neighboring Buvons Wine Shop, has opened under the watchful eye of owner and chef Alicia Kemper.
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
Long Beach wine bar Buvons develops restaurant space—starting with a stellar coffee popup
Alicia Kemper, the owner of Buvons Natural Wine Bar & Shop, has set her eyes on expansion. While she has constantly flexed her love...
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Art Scene: L.A. artist Fay Ray to unveil exhibition at Compound; current group show leaving Feb. 9
In the space's first large solo exhibition, Compound will bring on L.A.-based, feminist-meets-machinist artist and sculptor Fay Ray come Feb. 15.
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
Port City Tavern unveils holiday menu—including the espresso martini tree (yes, you read that right)
When it comes to the holidays—be it Halloween or Oktoberfest or Christmas—Port City Tavern is there for both the neighborhood and its patrons.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sura open on Mondays; Sonoratown and Recreational partner for latte; 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’s tiki haven, Bamboo Club, returns with its annual tinsel-ed up, boozed out holiday celebration
New mugs, who this? Bamboo Club—Long Beach's tiki king for half a decade—has returned with its annual Tinsel Club tradition.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown open 7 days a week; Miracle at The Ordinarie 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 restaurants land in Yelp rankings; Shlap Muan and Pickle Banh Mi land in Top 10
Multiple Long Beach businesses landed in Yelp! Elites' rankings for the best restaurants throughout Los Angeles County.
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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
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.
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
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.
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Chef Carlos Jurado of Selva Long Beach uplifts Colombian food in a way no one else does
Selva Long Beach is certainly one of the city's best restaurants—and it is due to Chef Carlos's choice to expand his culinary horizons.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s Bamboo Club digs Halloween cocktail menu The Tremble Club from the grave
Long Beach's Bamboo Club transforms into "The Tremble Club" for Halloween.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Sept. 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 Art Scene: With new executive director, Compound unveils group exhibit, ‘When the Veil Thins’
Compound, the Zaferia-based art-meets-food concept, has not only named a new executive director but will also be unveiling its first major group exhibit, When the Veil Thins, curated by artists Tofer Chin and Mari Orkenyi.
Events & Festivals
With Long Beach Oktoberfest postponed, here are the places you can celebrate locally
Long Beach Oktoberfest isn't coming through for 2024—that doesn't mean there aren't other stellar options happening throughout the season in Long Beach.
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.
Culture & Commentary
Compound Long Beach—the art-meets-food-meets-music hub—leans into its nonprofit roots
Compound Long Beach is many, many things: Art gallery. Restaurant thanks to The Union. Community hub for everything from wellness seminars to mini-markets. But the thing that people should know first and foremost is that it's a nonprofit.
Urbanism & Development
MacArthur Park in Long Beach readies for its renovation—and why that’s important
The long-planned renovation of MacArthur Park in Central Long Beach took its first tangible step toward fruition after crews broke ground on the space formally this month.
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
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Turkish sweets shop opens in Belmont Shore; Jerry’s Place up for sale; 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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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.
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Selva’s candlelit ‘test kitchen’ dinners flex the muscles of Chef Carlos Jurado
Selva has long harnessed its Colombian sensibility when it comes to food, but Chef Carlos Jurado wants to not just challenge himself but Long Beach.
Culture & Commentary
‘Cambodian Cowboy’ to lead Cambodian New Year in Long Beach across three days; ends with food festival
Chef Chad Phuong is no slack when it comes to the annual celebration of the Cambodian New Year in Long Beach: Across four days beginning on Friday, April 5, he will host a variety of events that culminates with a food festival at Trademark Brewing that will be hosting some of the city's best representation Cambodian-American entrepreneurs and food creators.Camb
Food & Drink
Five years in, Bamboo Club represents the pinnacle of tiki in Long Beach (new brunch menu included)
The Bamboo Club is unquestionably the epicenter of Long Beach’s love of tiki bars and drinks—and their newly minted brunch reflects just that.
Food & Drink
Selva has one of the most culinary-focused cocktail programs in Long Beach
The intent behind Selva has always been simple: Reflect the food of Colombia. And in this sense, Chef Carlos Jurado knew that cocktails—which are distinctly culinary yet never receive that very spotlight—were essential in creating his space. This is where mixologist Mike Borowski comes in.
Events & Festivals
Bamboo Club celebrates 5 years by calling on Long Beach bartenders for tiki cocktail competition
The Bamboo Club is unquestionably the epicenter of Long Beach's love of tiki bars and drinks—and it is hosting a cocktail competition to kick off its 5th birthday.
Food & Drink
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: February 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 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
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: December 2023
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: 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.
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Bar Envie in Zaferia to close; Long Beach Beer Lab to take over
Bar Envie owner Geoff Rau has partnered with wife-and-husband, master baker-and-master brewer team Harmony and Levi Fried of the Long Beach Bread and Beer Labs to formally convert the space into a Beer Lab.
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Pickle Banh Mi harbors the spirit of its Vietnamese women founders—and they’re ready for the shop’s grand opening in Long Beach
Created by the spirit of a mother and her sister —and continuing to be fueled by a daughter and son—Pickle Banh Mi is not just an ode to the mighty Vietnamese sandwich but to the resilience and empowerment of Vietnamese women.
Food & Drink
Now Anaheim Street: Bamboo Club, Good Time, Pho Hong Phat latest victims of summer burglary string in Long Beach
As more burglaries begin to frustrate business owners across the city, police officials have no formal word on if and how they are connected.
Food & Drink
Bar Envie, Long Beach’s NOLA-inspired space, named one of nation’s best new bars
Following Baby Gee Bar's prestigious nod by the Tale of the Cocktail Foundation as one of the country's best new bars, Bar Envie pulls up with a #3 score in Mashed's Best New Bars in the U.S. list.
Food & Drink
Your first look at Bar Envie, the NOLA-inspired concept from the crew behind Selva
The owners and chef behind Selva are off to their second food adventure—and it is another Zaferia restaurant that completely deviates from their previous restaurant.
Food & Drink
The underrated food coming out of the underrated Zaferia gem that is Commodity
Chef Josh Haskal has been directly involved in nearly every aspect of food hospitality—be it managing the former Beer Belly to bartending to cooking—but his talents shine best when he has the right partnership, like that with Commodity.
Urbanism & Development
Crews break ground on $57.7M affordable housing complex in Cambodia Town
The 108-unit complex located in Cambodia Town in Central Long Beach will be dedicated to affordable housing and transitional housing for seniors who have experienced homelessness.
Food & Drink
Chef Jason Witzl shutters deli concept, ditches Zaferia move as Ellie’s Long Beach returns to original home
It ain't easy out there for restaurants—and especially for Ellle's Long Beach, as Chef Jason Witzl is forced to abandon the restaurant's move to the much-lauded, soon-to-likely-shutter Compound art complex in Zaferia. There is, however, a silver lining: Ellie's will return to its full glory at its original location in Alamitos Beach.
Food & Drink
Wanting to share their home, La Chancla serve up guisado-style tacos to Long Beach
The key point to La Chancla—the tiny-but-mighty taco space inside the Northgate complex at 10th Street and Cherry Avenue—are guisados. And for the first time, Long Beach has a space dedicated to these magical little style of serving up taco fillings.
Food & Drink
The Hideaway is Chef Art Gonzalez’s gorgeous ode to old-school steakhouses
The Hideaway—Chef Art Gonzalez's gorgeous ode to old-school steakhouses—opens in Long Beach's Zaferia district.
