Events & Festivals
Long Beach Beer Lab to close out LA Beer Week with ‘Crispy bois only,’ all-you-can-drink beer festival
Long Beach Beer lab will close out L.A. Beer Week (which is bring one of the largest beer festivals in the state) with a stellar, crisp-beers-only festival.
Long Beach Food Scene
Essential Long Beach cocktail menus: 2023 Edition
Long Beach's cocktail and mocktail game has never been stronger, with bar managers and tenders creating a new era of hospitality and drinkability. Here are some of the best shining throughout the city.
Long Beach Food Scene
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sugar Taco to open June 5; Rascals to close; 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
Ammatolí’s chef Dima Habibeh to host collab dinner with famed Jordanian, Top Chef winner Ali Ghzawi
Chef Dima Habibeh of Ammatolí and Chef Ali Ghzawi of Alee—named one of the 50 best restaurants in the entirety of the Middle East/North Africa region by World's 50 Best—have decided to meet for a collaboration dinner that Long Beach is unlikely to see again soon.
Long Beach Food Scene
Gaucho Grill’s beach concept to open on sands of Long Beach in summer; new look at interior
After years of setbacks, the largest of the beach amenity upgrades—those at Alamitos Beach—will have its tenant, Gaucho Grill, finally open this summer.
Long Beach Food Scene
Beloved Long Beach Indian restaurant Appu’s Cafe to soft open second location on June 3
After eying multiple spaces—including a potential DTLB location—Appu's Cafe has settled on an East Long Beach location for their second space.
Long Beach Food Scene
Queen Mary’s beloved Observation Bar & Chelsea Chowder Bar reopen; Sir Winston’s reopening pushed to 2024
The art deco masterpiece that is the Observation Bar, along with the ship-window lined chowder hall, have been both popular and cherished—and haven't seen the appearance of patrons since the beginning of the pandemic.
Long Beach Food Scene
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: ‘Candified’ to open shop in Belmont Shore; South of Nick’s steps forward; 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
Where to (unquestionably) eat and drink along this weekend’s Beach Streets route
Tens of thousands of people have participated in the car-free events that allows bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and more to roam the streets safely—and this year's event is along one of Long Beach's richest culinary stretches.
Long Beach Food Scene
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: AAPI Heritage Month Edition
Longbeachize continues to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: Brian Addison's monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and this month is dedicated to AAPI-owned or -inspired places and dishes.
