Just in from field eater Kevin Ferguson: Second Street’s Angelo’s Deli is adding a dining room, meaning that there will finally be a convenient place to eat the best sandwiches in town!
In other news, pass on the salsa for awhile.

Belmont Grill
Belmont Grill is impossible to miss, a loud place that occupies the same space on Second Street where Los Alamitos import Paul’s once cooked its burgers. And unless you made a habit out of Paul’s, chances are you won’t be able to tell the two apart—the menu is practically identical, the tiny interior space [...]

Breakfast at Natraj
Most Sundays it’s eggs Florentine and coffee—Bloody Mary, too, if you’re living on the edge—but sometimes having breakfast for breakfast just doesn’t sound so good, especially if brekkie gets rolling around 1 in the afternoon. So. What to eat—pizza? Burgers? Soup? How about tandoori chicken with a side of champagne? It’s certainly not [...]

Late notice for Russ Roca’s new bike group Long Beach Cyclists: they’re having a planning meeting tonight at Polly’s Coffee (4606 E Second St) at 7pm. Visit lbcyclists.org for timelier info.

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
When one of your New Year’s resolutions is to pry yourself away from the computer and actually have a social life with real people, you don’t pass up the chance for a girls’ night out at Bono’s. With this in mind, my express purpose for the evening was catching up—and while at [...]

And an alleged central Long Beach revenge killing

One of Long Beach’s jewels, the Second Street retail strip in Belmont Shore and on Naples Island fairly sparkles during the day.
But according to the Press-Telegram’s Joe Segura, the area changes after dark. Bar fights in the wee hours there are on the rise, according to the P-T, [...]

Or twice, I don’t remember exactly. But I’m not proud of it, believing as I do that there are certain businesses – record shops, flower shops, running-shoe stores, breakfast spots and coffee houses — that just ought to be indie operations. But a story in Slate presents evidence that the proliferation of Starbucks (15,000 stores and expanding [...]

The ups and downs of American flavors at Vint’s

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The earliest American cuisine stood strong on simplicity, serving up well-known, pared-down foods that had little to do with anything other than sustenance. Even the more worldly Americans kept their luxuries simple—Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream with just egg yolks, sugar and a [...]

Ditch the big box at Go Go Guitars

PHOTO by RALPH PALUMBO
It’s funny: the thing that finally soured me on mega-music retailer Guitar Center wasn’t the know-nothing salespeople or the mass-produced, overpriced merchandise. It wasn’t even the omnipresent teenagers, emboldened by a night of “Guitar Hero III” ecstasy, butchering some riff from some Every Time I [...]