There’s been a hole in Bixby Knolls ever since La Vineria Italiana went dark, a closure that left Atlantic Ave. without a sure source of small-plate dining and the associated drinking. But the Factory, a self-proclaimed gastrobar set to open in the very same space as La Vineria, is here to fill that void and [...]

Doing good with Long Beach’s food philanthropists
Long Beach sprouted out of an agrarian dream, a pastoral fantasy of bean fields and beaches that sustained entire generations before the onset of the city’s industrial complex. But as happens with the immutable laws of progress, those plots all eventually disappeared, family farms and cultural traditions wiped out [...]