Food & Drink
With Second Owl, the Owl Owl team takes Thai and Lao food to innovative heights
For Chef Regan Chantrirak—who, with his wife Pason, opened The Second Owl in Belmont Shore—the journey to what he feels is a "proper space to experience the food of our cultures" isn't just a story of evolution.
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After four decades, Colonial Bakery permanently shut down following vermin infestation
After four decades under its current ownership and nearly 100 years of operation as a brand, Colonial Bakery has permanently closed.
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Yes, OMG Burgers has the best cheesesteak in Long Beach—but it has much, much more
When Valerie Page and her husband Billy opened OMG Burgers & More in Belmont Heights earlier this year, they weren’t just bringing cheesesteaks and water ice to the city.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: #9 Pho to permanently close; Afro-Caribbean market coming to Broadway; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.
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Long Beach’s CoffeeDrunk collabs with Ambitious Ales to get you, well, actually drunk
Long Beach coffee powerhouse CoffeeDrunk—now four locations deep—has collaborated with Ambitious Ales—serving up some of the city's finest brews for six years straight—to, well, get you actually drunk.
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Immigrant-owned LaMon Bakehouse wants to meld European and Filipino flavors with Long Beach style
For Monica Recio, the owner of the petite (but with punch) LaMon Bakehouse on Broadway near Temple Avenue, baking began long before she ever stepped into a professional kitchen.
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El Barrio Cantina updates menu, leaning into folding influences into Mexican cuisine (including sushi rolls)
Continuing to meld the worlds he that influence him, Chef Ulises Pineda-Alfaro pushes El Barrio Cantina into the future.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Fronk’s, Hug Life permanently close; Taste to reopen; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.
Food & Drink
Stuffed between two bars in West Long Beach, Black Pork is a multi-cultural food gem
Black Pork owners Veronica Lopez and Luis Mendiola have created a West Long Beach food space unlike any other.
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Tanuki Curry House brings a glorious, proper Japanese curry to Long Beach
Tanuki Curry House brings the type of curry that is found on nearly every street corner in Japan—think CoCo Ichi or Hinoya—in all its glory.
