Food & Drink
Sura Long Beach continues to be the city’s steward of Korean flavors
For the regulars of Sura, their persistent push toward remaining both respectful of their Korean roots but also innovative—keeping up with the food trends that span Korean food proper and fusion food trends—is a given.
Food & Drink
Some of Long Beach’s most respected chefs are teaming up for four one-off dinners
Chef Philip Pretty of the Michelin-recognized Heritage space is teaming up with a slate of curated chefs for a special set of tag-team dinners.
Food & Drink
After 50-plus years of slingin’ eggs, Egg Heaven in Long Beach to close indefinitely
It had been many things before ever becoming Egg Heaven, the business that would define the southwest corner of Ximeno and 4th Street. It...
Events & Festivals
Nationwide hard seltzer festival Seltzerland makes pitstop in Long Beach
Get your White Girl Drunk on with over 100 hard seltzer tastings as Seltzerland comes to Long Beach for the first time after birthing its fizzy baby earlier this summer.
Food & Drink
Ghost kitchen meets dining hall: Partake Collective in Long Beach to offer kitchens for local, budding chefs
Ghost kitchens are one of the most dominating forces in the food industry, exploding mid-pandemic as people sought delivered meals—but Partake hopes to centralize that business in Long Beach by going local, taking over the former MHA Village space in DTLB.
Food & Drink
One year in, Rose Park on Pine still shines (with the city’s best bean & cheese burrito and fish tacos)
Rose Park on Pine has (too) quietly stepped into its second year, with Chef Melissa Ortiz showing off, menu-after-menu, some of the city's most bold and stellar food.
Food & Drink
Zaferia’s Hideaway closes permanently to make way for Colombian concept Selva
The steakhouse that helped lift the Zaferia's dining scene is closing—and its owner is hoping a new concept will do the same.
Food & Drink
DTLB’s Burger Daddy closes permanently, reopening prime restaurant real estate
The city's first and sole restaurant dedicated to the katsu burger has permanently closed after just two years of being open—a possible reflection on the long-term effects of those who have fought the pandemic for two years.
Food & Drink
The underrated food coming out of the underrated Zaferia gem that is Commodity
Chef Josh Haskal has been directly involved in nearly every aspect of food hospitality—be it managing the former Beer Belly to bartending to cooking—but his talents shine best when he has the right partnership, like that with Commodity.
Food & Drink
The last Indian hold in DTLB: Amid few office workers and landlord issues, Fresh Kabobs closes permanently
For over a decade, Rafi Kahn and Raza Pir of Fresh Kabobs has been filling the much-needed-to-be-filled lack of Indian food in Downtown while riding the roller coaster that was being a tenant inside City Place—and that tenure is now coming to an end.
