Johnny Hollywood

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
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 [...]

Hotel Maya NYE Bash
Hotel Maya and its Fuego Restaurant will donate 10 percent of this evening’s proceeds to the Museum of Latin American Art. But I suppose you’ll want to know what you’re buying first: At Fuego, it’s a 1950s Havana-style Cuban New Year’s feast featuring Cuban-inspired cuisine. At the Maya, it’s a Cuban fiesta [...]

Fuego on the Long Beach Riviera

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Fuego looks out onto the Long Beach of everyone’s oceanfront dream, a seaside theater where pelicans dive with hungry, graceful precision and pleasure-seekers boat by on the last winds of summer. It’s a scene so idyllic it’s nearly unbelievable, almost as if it were constructed and choreographed [...]

Long Beach lost its most notable culinary star with the recent closure of Tracht’s. Although Suzanne Tracht operated more as a chef-in-absentia than one with an active hand in the nightly grind, her modern chophouse in the Renaissance Hotel (spun-off of the supremely successful Jar in LA) capably handled her new American classics. The restaurant’s [...]