Where else is there to go when you have your own in-home bar?

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Apartments like the airy, two-story, three bedroom unit just off Retro Row rented by Susan Janz and Jennifer Celio can at once leave you feeling overwhelmed and pissed. Overwhelmed, because you realize this is but one of our city’s legion [...]

I got into work last night for the first time since returning from SXSW and this was in my little waitress cubby box:

Don’t hate me, man. Hate the blowjobs.

Springbok Bar & Grill, in Long Beach’s Shoreline Village, is named for the African antelope, and it isn’t supposed to be a melting pot—even though it seems that way to us. What you get here is South African pub food, like Jan Van Riebeeck’s boerwors roll—the traditional South African beef sausage served on a crusty [...]

Central to any good bar food is a good burger—and the Pike has plenty. Best of all is the guacamole burger, a simple thing turned great by a spoonful of mashed avocado and a handful of crispy fries. To truly appreciate the potatoes, though, go for the fish and chips. The Pike’s excellent version of [...]

Common sense dictates an Irish pub on a street known to embrace all ends of bar culture will do drinks okay, but not much else. But in keeping with classic Irish culinary tradition, O’Malley’s also makes the best breakfast potatoes: soft but not mushy, bite-sized but not too tiny, crispy but not burnt. With O’Malley’s [...]

The most appropriate dish for an izakaya like Musha is one charred at a tableside grill. And the most interesting of those is the dried stingray. The translucent triangles of flesh initially eat like a too-tough jerky inexplicably plucked from the sea. But give the pieces some grilling and a dunk in the accompanying aioli [...]

Reminiscing at the Pike Bar and Grill

PHOTO by ROHSEILA ROBLES
Outside the cluster of shops known as the Pike at Rainbow Harbor, one of the last remnants of Long Beach’s Coney Island past sits on a series of wooden supports. There, at the far end of a parking lot, the peaked, circular roof of Looff’s Lite-a-Line [...]