The Stache Bar—the perfectly Long Beach bar that straddles our love of the dive with our need for decent spirits—spins its witch’s brew to harness the talent for yet another perfectly Stache Halloween menu. This six-cocktail menu—including a rather stellar N/A offering that can easily be boozed up if you need—marks the second time the space has focused on the spookier side of The Stache, first launching last year as a reminder that the little space can actually conjure up some creepily comforting concoctions.
Surely, it joins many others getting in on the happily welcomed trend of Halloween menu takeovers—including the tiki-centric romp at The Bamboo Club and the wonderfully kitschy The Social List. Still, it does so in a way that feels wholly its own as it continues to push itself as a Long Beach bar.
After some 15 years of covering Long Beach, I’ve noticed a recurring theme when it comes to food across the past couple of years: chefs, bars, and breweries rediscovering their roots or outright uplifting themselves to be better. Whether it is through tasting menus, full-on friendly competitions, unconventional festivals, revamped bar programs, absurdly stellar We-Can-Read-the-Room happy hours, an investment from outside brands, the return of OG chefs to the kitchen, or or or… The city seems to be quietly reclaiming food and drink that feels both familiar and honest.
Add The Stache Bar to that list.
How The Stache Bar returned to its roots as a kinda-divey-kinda-specialty space…
When it first opened over ten years ago, Stache shifted the way Long Beach drank. It wasn’t just another bar—it was the kind of intimate, dimly lit haunt that Silver Lake hipsters would’ve killed for in the early 2010s. Bottles of rare spirits lined the shelves, giant spheres of ice chilled cocktails, and bartenders showed off chops that went well beyond vodka sodas. Even the ginger beer and bitters were made in-house. Nights dedicated to craft cocktails cemented its place as one of the city’s true hidden gems.
Now, Priscilla In—the force currently steering the bar—is reminding drinkers of that legacy. Across the past year, it has churned out more specialty menus than it has in the previous five combined.
That spirit of re-grounding first showed up in The Stache’s inaugural Halloween cocktail menu, where nostalgia met playful experimentation. The result? A Halloween cocktail list with names like “Nightmare on 4th Street” and “The Crimson Krampus,” drinks that balanced craft technique with seasonal ingredients and a wink of spooky fun.
It wasn’t about reinvention. It was (and still is) about remembrance and imagination—and The Stache, once again this year, is pouring drinks worth remembering.
A look into Stache Bar’s 2025 Halloween cocktail menu.
Deadly drinkable. Perfectly priced. Undoubtedly unpretentious.
A Field in England: Whiskey | Pumpkin | Spiced Apple | Brown Sugar Vanilla | Egg White | Topped with Cinnamon | Nutmeg
Mr. Vampire: Loch Lomond Single Malt Scotch | Oolong Honey Tea | Ginger Syrup | Lemon | Ginger Sugar Rim
Häxan: Espresso | Vodka | Licor 43 | Macadamia
Thriller Reprise: Washed in Goat Milk | Mezcal | Mecco Chile & Habanero Infused Agave | Beet Shrub | Cachaça
Cease & Desist: Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice | Simple Syrup | Coco Lopez | Orange Blossom Water | Topped with Soda | N/A, may add any well
Cornstar: Corn Bread Tequila | Guinness Syrup | Maple Syrup | Chai Heavy Cream | Egg Yolk | Garnished with Banana Leaf
