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11/10/2025
With so many weird lists out there that have outright wrong or awkward information, here is a list of Long Beach restaurants open for dine-in on Thanksgiving that's actually useful. There are hours, costs, phone numbers, and links to menus and reservations. It’s simple and easy.
And yes, there is a Thanksgiving brunch and dinner on a boat cruise through the harbor.
Long Beach restaurants open on Thanksgiving? Fear not: We have you covered with traditional and non-traditional options.
11/10/2025
Praise the seafood gods: Liv’s has extended their lease in Belmont Shore. Even more, the space remains vastly underrated—and I think many often dismiss them as just an oyster bar when they have a full, constantly revolving array of menu items. From a bowl of clams in a sun-dried tomato white wine bath to a stellar roasted rockfish atop creamed spinach.
This is going to be best exemplified by their upcoming, five-course Meet the Winemaker dinner on Nov. 18 with Jordan Collins of Lone Madrone.
Much to the news of food lovers, Liv's—which was facing the end of its lease—has had its lease extended at its Belmont Shore location.
11/09/2025
Vietnamese coffee lovers rejoice: Da Vien has officially opened its first Long Beach location. While the soft opening takes place now, their grand opening will be Nov. 15.
Da Vien Coffee, the rapidly expanding Vietnamese coffee shop brand based in Orange County, will open its first Long Beach location.
11/08/2025
Such a wonderful project for Long Beach. A street for people and bicyclists and skaters—not just cars. A focus on more greenery and general beauty. More pedestrian safety measures. Upgrades in bike lanes.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Stretching over five miles from 2nd Street to Carson Street, the $65M Studebaker Road Transformation Project has officially broken ground.
11/07/2025
It’s back, Long Beach. Time to get your Miracle on at The Ordinarie.
Some bars decorate for Christmas. And then there’s Miracle at The Ordinarie, which disgorges up the most wondrous array of yuletide cheer.
11/07/2025
Food lovers, rejoice: Taste Beer-Wine-Kitchen has reopened. Surrounding business owners are happy. The community is happy. And it’s because it has such a special place in the culinary history of Long Beach, offering when it first opened a space that didn’t really exist.
Now, the new Taste has an incredible wine list—which features monthly flights’n’bites that are, simply put, an incredible deal—and a return to Chef Brad’s love of true farm-to-table cooking.
Taste Wine-Beer-Kitchen—the cozy little spot tethered to Olives Gourmet Grocer—has officially been resurrected after a five-year nap.
11/06/2025
In its first formal, major update since opening, Sushi Nikkei is debuting an array of new items. Adding to its rightfully popular existing menu, the seven-item update reflects Chef Eduardo Chang Ogata’s dedication to the sushi of the Peruvian nikkei people.
The menu launches toward the end of this month.
In its first formal, major update since opening, Sushi Nikkei is debuting an array of new items on its rightfully lauded existing menu.
11/04/2025
Echoing Chef Jason Witzl of Ellie’s, Wood & Salt’s new chef, Albert Lopez, creates food that is gorgeously layered and unafraid of sauces, oils, herbs, accoutrements, and, just for the hell of it, yet another layer of something. And they aren’t absent-minded levels untidily stacked onto one another.
With Chef Albert Lopez—one of Long Beach's most promising culinary talents—Wood & Salt churns out its best food in years.
11/02/2025
From closures to openings, some good and some sad news in this week’s food Intel update…
Eat well, be kind, Long Beach.
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.
11/02/2025
Nonna Mercato’s wildly popular summer dinner series, Summer Nights, rightfully sold out shortly after being announced. And now, Chef Cameron Slaugh wants to provide the same treatment for the upcoming winter weeks with an ode to the alpine heart of Italy.
For December, Northern Nights will be a seasonal tasting at Nonna Mercato that pulls from the kitchens and valleys of Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli, and Trentino–Alto Adige.
For December, Northern Nights will be a seasonal tasting at Nonna Mercato that pulls from the kitchens and valleys of northern Italy.
10/31/2025
Salt & Grove, the newly minted restaurant inside the Courtyard Marriott in Downtown Long Beach, sits in a culinary space burned into the collective memory of Long Beach. James Republic once sat atop the food chain at its peak.
And the team at Salt & Grove wants to return to that. Brunch on the weekends. Morning business get-togethers. Groups of friends exploring shared plates. And for the newly minted head of kitchen, Chef Courtney Beavers, while respecting James Republic, he is not necessarily looking to replicate it culinarily. Instead, he wants to reflect its spirit while turning Salt & Grove into a cuisine-bouncing space.
Salt & Grove is the newly minted, cuisine-bouncing restaurant inside the Courtyard Marriott in Downtown Long Beach.
10/30/2025
Andrade’s Cafe is the latest concept to take over a much-loved space on the Peninsula that has seen restaurant after restaurant come in and out.
Owner Jorge Andrade’s hope? That his community-centric approach will win the neighborhood over. The space opens Nov. 8.
Andrade's Cafe, taking over the space abruptly left by Olive by the Bay on the peninsula, hopes to charm the Long Beach Peninsula.
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