As we continue celebrating Long Beach Food Scene: Last Call—a 10-day, multi-event celebration of our city’s rich bar culture and the people who make it happen—we will offer a series of features that highlight everything from our most stellar cocktail programs at restaurants to to the very events occurring (like this feature on our bar-mers market at Port City Tavern)… All in order to lift a glass to a social and economic driver that rarely receives the love its deserves: our bar industry. For more information on Long Beach Last Call, tap here.
Port City Tavern has become an essential part of the East Long Beach community: From stellar cocktail menus to cocktail competitions to community events that raise both money and glasses, the bar space and its adjacent parking lot has become the home to many celebrations.
And for Long Beach Last Call, we’ll be turning their parking lot into 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.
So what is this bar-mers market all about?
feature ticketed tastings, food, and some of the finest in our industry showing off their creative side. Pouring will be Four Roses Bourbon, Centenario Tequila, Don Julio, Liquid Light Wines, Mommenpop Spritzes, along with Sangre De Tigre michelada mix and Fever Tree mixers. For food, we will feature the following:
- Waldo’s Pizza (featuring some of the city’s best pizza)
- Ida’s Sweets (bringing on Cambodian and American desserts)
- PBS Pub (bringing their famed peanuts)
To attend? Free. To sample alcohol brands? A simple $20 ticket, which also includes a cocktail. Tickets will be available on day-of at Port City Tavern.
Wait–you mention Long Beach Last Call 2025. What is it?
Long Beach Food Scene: Last Call—or Long Beach Last Call 2025 if you wanna keep it simple—returns March 1 and run through March 10 with a series of events on each day that celebrates the city’s rich bar culture, community, and its workers. From industry-only and unlimited tastings events to cocktail contests and proper Irish coffee lessons, Long Beach Last Call will continue to be the premiere event celebrating Long Beach’s bar and cocktail culture.
After the success of my restaurant in 2023, Long Beach Food Scene Week, bar owners and tenders rightfully asked: “What about a week for us?” So I decided to oblige and present Long Beach Last Call last year, a ten-day long celebration of Long Beach’s amazing bar culture, it’s even more amazing workers, and the industry that often goes without recognition as one of our city’s largest economic and social drivers. And thousands of people proudly showed up. With the alcohol industry going through a roller-coaster of layoffs and rearrangements—from brands leaving distribution companies to brand representation shrinking nationwide—now is the time more than ever to support these incredible people.
