Wake up with the Coffee Cup Cafe

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As anyone who has walked the city streets at midnight knows, Long Beach is a drinker’s town. Whether that means sequined tops and cocktails on Pine Ave. or T-shirts and PBR elsewhere is up to the individual. But the alcoholic experience is universal. And so are [...]

By now, the sandwiches at Angelo’s Italian Deli are things of legend, monstrous creations constructed to feed what must be utterly inhuman appetites. Try and take a whole one on and it’ll probably knock you out cold. But they don’t substitute quantity for quality here—these are expert sandwiches made with well-sourced Italian ingredients. There are [...]

Jim Beam in a can

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Go ahead and scoff at the notion that a pre-mixed Jim Beam and ginger ale (or cola, pictured) served in an aluminum can is a better purchase than having a bartender prepare one on the spot. Sure, the knee-jerk reaction to discovering said beverage is one of disbelief [...]

Long Beach Thai Restaurant serves the city

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To the uninitiated, Long Beach Thai Restaurant sounds almost comically generic, a place named presumably in haste and without much creativity. But in that supremely simple nomenclature is a declaration of populism: Long Beach Thai Restaurant is in fact the Long Beach Thai restaurant, an eatery [...]

If you travel within the slow-smoked world of Los Angeles-area meat-seekers, you probably spent most of your waking hours this past year at the two big Bs: Bigmista’s and Bludso’s. Profiled in our People Issue, Bigmista’s Barbecue is the farmers market operation run by Long Beach residents Neil and Phyllis Strawder, a roving source of [...]

Like its neighbor, the World Famous V.I.P. Records, Pee & Gee Fish Market is an institution

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Pee & Gee Fish Market has been a central Long Beach fixture since 1976, when Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. still had only one name. That’s long enough to become part of the scenery; and in fact, [...]

We rely on a lot of coffee here at District Weekly HQ, but increasingly of late there’s been much sipping of tea, too, mainly due to Key Accounts Manager/Office Tea Expert Jenny Stockdale. So when the Kreisler Group, the PR firm representing Long Beach resident Mei Ting, sent over a gift set featuring Ting’s patent-pending [...]

Johnny Hollywood

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Under a full moon, the Hotel Maya’s restaurant/bar Fuego claims a view of the Long Beach harbor that’s the stuff of After Dark screen savers, with celestial light bouncing off the black surface of the sea, an oil island anchored in the distance and the rest of the world, it [...]

Havana memories at the Raven’s Nest

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Before even a single slice of plantain arrives, the Raven’s Nest seems a restaurant conceived in the details. There are enough instruments fastened to the walls to form a mambo ensemble; bread comes to the table stashed in cigar boxes. It’s all a paean to a certain [...]

Ours isn’t the most diverse taco town, but El Taco Loco No. 3 continues to inspire, a surprisingly spacious place that provides hope to those who ever wished to find even a few local bites able to approach the finer flavors of LA’s vaunted taco shops. El Taco Loco’s tacos are considered in certain circles [...]