Long Beach Food Scene
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: El Sauz to open new location; Cuizina Filipina to close and sell, 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.
Long Beach Food Scene
This North LB farm hosts magical dinners—and they’re about to become a monthly tradition
Chef Rod Dodd and his crew Organic Harvest Gardens have long embodied the spirit of community and food-as-a-connector—and the chef wants to extend that spirit as he invites more and more people to his humble plot for a trip to gastronomical church.
Events & Festivals
‘Cambodian Cowboy’ Chef Chad Puong to lead Cambo New Year celebration (Khmer beer from Ten Mile included)
The traditionally three-day celebration will have a kick-off at Trademark come April 2 and a formal celebration at Ten Mile on April 21.
Long Beach Food Scene
OC fave Ham ‘n Scram to open first Long Beach location April 1
One of Orange County's most beloved breakfast spots—started by a father-and-son team in 2010—is opening its first location beyond the Orange Curtain.
Long Beach Food Scene
Ambitious, LB Beer Lab, Ten Mile win big at statewide Brewers Cup
The annual competition is one of California's most prestigious in terms of beer—and breweries representing Long Beach showed strong in 2023.
Long Beach Food Scene
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Food Summit coming in April; Fire Wings opens; Plancha closes, 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.
Long Beach Food Scene
Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: March 2023
Brian Addison's monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
Long Beach Food Scene
Under the Sun—one of Long Beach’s pioneering vegan spaces—will close permanently after March 17
The DTLB raw vegan food venture launched by Rainbow Juices owners Chrissy Cox and Dawna Bass, Under the Sun, will have its last day of service come March 17.
Long Beach Food Scene
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Cena Vegan to open in Partake; Alder & Sage tests dinner service, 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.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: The cringey and strange tale of how Lucille’s Smokehouse created a fictitious Black woman for their brand
In a move that echoes the controversy surrounding Quaker Oats's creation of Aunt Jemima, Lucille's proudly admitted to creating Lucille Buchanan, a fictitious Black woman from South Carolina which inspired their barbecue. Come the BLM protests of 2020, the restaurant removed the entire story without a word.
