Food & Drink
Viaje in Belmont Shore is home to Long Beach’s most underrated cocktail program
Viaje in Belmont Shore serves as one of the most underrated spaces when it comes to the growing cocktail game, with head bartender Tiquio Serratos exploring with Mexican spirits and ingredients that honor and uplift our neighbor to the south.
Culture & Commentary
A look at the Madonna-themed cocktails for Long Beach’s queerest vinyl listening session
The Social List bar manager Erik Rios-Wentzky and local bar celeb and queer advocate Devon Jade have come up with a handful of beautiful, liquid odes to the Queen of Pop—all in the name of Long Beach Last Call's queerest event.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: The Pan to reopen in March; Korean fried chicken hidden in a deli; 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.
Events & Festivals
Panxa Long Beach is home to the city’s largest agave spirits selection
For Long Beach Last Call, Panxa will be hosting an array of some of the finest agave-centric distilleries—Tequila Ocho, Siete Leguas, Mezcal Vago, Nosotros, and more—that will allow ticket holders to taste over 20 variations of agave spirits for $30 come Saturday, Mar. 2.
Food & Drink
How to celebrate National Margarita Day in Long Beach
It's National Margarita Day—but this list largely would have been impossible if it weren't for Jay Verdiales not only organizing the first Long Beach Margarita Week but inviting me as a judge. In that spirit, I picked ten of my own favorites—some from Long Beach Margarita Week, some not. In no particular order...
Events & Festivals
Altar Society is part of a Downtown Long Beach rebirth—so they’re hosting a crawl to celebrate the other businesses joining them
Altar Society will be hosting a Long Beach Food Scene meet-up that will eventually become a crawl, hitting up ISM, The Stave, and ending at The Ordinarie come Mar. 8—all in celebration of Long Beach Last Call.
Food & Drink
Breakfast concept ‘And Waffles’ to take over former Pier 76 space in Downtown Long Beach
Los Angeles mini-breakfast chain And Waffles (stylized as & Waffles) will be opening a Long Beach location at the former Pier 76 space in Downtown Long Beach at 95 Pine Ave.
Events & Festivals
This (free) Big Red Bus crawl will explore some of the best Long Beach dive bars
Long Beach’s love for dive bars is one that shouldn’t be messed with—and with that, there will be a free Big Red Bus ride that will explore some of our finest on Monday, Mar. 9 beginning at 3PM at Crow's in Naples, all in celebration of Long Beach Last Call.
Food & Drink
Whiskey dinner at Auld Dubliner in Long Beach to feature some hyper-exclusive bottles of Bushmills
Come Feb. 21, The Auld Dubliner in Downtown Long Beach will greet Xander Brown, the SoCal brand ambassador for Bushmills and a longtime whiskey educator.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Flamin’ Curry to open second location; Dirt Dog reopens; 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.
