Food & Drink
Tacos La Carreta and Pizza Parlor LB pair up for a pie gone Sinaloense
Two Long Beach food giants—the rightfully lauded Tacos La Carreta on the Northside and the underrated Pizza Parlor LB in East Long Beach—are partnering up for a pizza collaboration that features the five-day proofed sourdough base of the Parlor with the famed Sinaloa-style carne asada and charred Anaheim chiles of Tacos La Carreta.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
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.
Food & Drink
Pizza Parlor LB is East Long Beach’s hidden, underrated carby gem
Pizza Parlor LB—the East Long Beach pizzeria that plays sibling to Coffee Parlor, both owned and operated by Long Beach native Josh Knight—has grasped the Long Beach pizza zeitgeist by the crust to deliver the best pizza on the Eastside.
Food & Drink
Wide Eyes Open Palms to shutter, shift toward new owner and re-brand as Good Day Cafe
The two unabashedly queer, proud women behind Wide Eyes Open Palms—Chef Kat McIver and coffee maestro Angie Evans, who founded what is colloquially known as WeOp—have decided to pass the torch to a new owner. The space's last day of operation as Wide Eyes Open Palms will be June 2, followed by a two-week closure to re-brand as the Good Day Cafe.
Food & Drink
ISM Brewing scores three, Trademark one medal at the prestigious World Beer Cup
The World Beer Cup, largely seen as the globe's most prestigious international beer competition, has bestowed four medals onto two Long Beach Breweries—DTLB's ISM Brewing and Washington/DTLB's Trademark—that further showcase that Long Beach's beer scene is stronger than ever.
Events & Festivals
Annual Cambodian New Year celebration at Ten Mile returns (twako pizza and Khmer lager included)
For the third year in a row, "Cambodian Cowboy" Chef Chad Phuong of Battambong BBQ will host a mighty Cambodian New Year celebration at Ten Mile Brewing in Signal Hill, the pit master's long-time home and partner, come Friday, April 26 from 5PM to 9PM.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Golden Burgers to become Eat Fantastic; two new parklets 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
The Fairmont Breakers in Long Beach to open in fall; multiple food and bar spaces (like The Sky Room) included
The Fairmont Breakers—taking over the historic building that lines the southern end of Ocean between Collins Way and Locust Avenue—has what many are hoping to be an official opening date after many opening announcements that failed to follow through: Fall of 2024.
Food & Drink
ISM Brewing launches ‘tacotarian’ menu with massive, over-the-top tacos diverting from the basics
ISM Brewing certainly offers some of the city's best beers—beautifully brewed, consistently clean, downright down-able—but its underrated food (which is shockingly affordable) deserves an uplift, especially its newly minted "Tacotarian" menu that features hefty, hulky iterations of the Mexican dish that are refreshingly different from pretty much anything in the city.
