Events & Festivals
Long Beach Last Call celebration of bar industry continues through Mar. 10
From industry only events and parties aboard the Queen Mary to dive bar bingo and proper Irish coffee lessons, Long Beach Last Call will celebrate the bar culture in a way no event has.
Food & Drink
Essential cocktails to drink during Long Beach Last Call
We have a lot going for our inaugural Long Beach Last call celebration but it isn't, of course, just about the events. It's also about the incredible, for-this-event-only creations that some of our city's most talented mixologists have concocted that also deserve some spotlight.
Food & Drink
Marlena’s cocktail program marks return of one of Long Beach’s finest bartenders
Marlena bar manager David Castillo is essentially working with an entirely blank slate–but he wants to return to honoring the history of cocktails with his Long Beach Last Call menu.
Food & Drink
The Attic’s (underrated) cocktail program stands on par with its (still underrated) food in Long Beach
The Attic in Long Beach has been consistently evolving—but that effort has seen its largest transformation across the past few years. Its stellar cocktail program is no exception.
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.
Culture & Commentary
The Ordinarie rediscovered this cocktail birthed in Long Beach 65 years ago
Not only participating in a Long Beach Food Scene meet-up and DTLB crawl, The Ordinarie has a Last Call menu that is an ode to the locals.
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.
Culture & Commentary
New owners of Long Beach dive bar staple Crow’s want to make it, well, more Crow-y
To know Long Beach is to know its dive bars—and when it comes to the rich dive bar legends of Long Beach, few have the scope of status that is attached to Crow's. And its new owners want to return it to its 1990s divey glory.
Food & Drink
Michael’s on Naples breaks cardinal rule and goes full Italian-American
At Michael's, as has always been the case, one will not find plates of chicken or eggplant parmigiana. That's changed—at least on Tuesdays, when the Italian staple goes full-on Italian-American with their "Brooklyn Nights" offerings.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s 4th Horseman pizzeria to expand; Dark Art Emporium to move
The 4th Horseman—Long Beach's horrorcore-meets-metal, beer-gone-macabre, fuck-around-and-find-out-style of pies pizzeria—will be expanding: the Dark Art Emporium, the art gallery attached to the Horseman, will be moving over into the East Village Arts District next to House of Hayden while the Horseman will push into the gallery space for its expansion.
