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1 week ago | longbeachize.com | Brian Addison

Missed previous Long Beach Food Scene Intel updates? We got you covered, boo: Click here for the full archive. Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city. This is news that needs just a quick mention, is developing, or repeated news where you might have missed the full features. A new farmers market will take over the Retro Row parking at the southeast corner of Cherry Avenue and 4th Street come June 5.

1 week ago | longbeachize.com | Brian Addison

Long Beach is a breakfast city. A brunch city. And definitely a day-drinking city. (One of my first professional meetings with my executive director some 15 years ago led to the dubbing of the “Long Beach two-beer lunch,” where he noticed during a lunch meeting that nearly everyone around him, whether in suits or shorts, had a beer if not two for lunch. Ah, the good ol’ days.)Given that, we take our brunch and breakfast rather seriously.

1 week ago | longbeachize.com | Brian Addison

Ten Mile Brewing—the medal-grabbing brewery that might be in Signal Hill but is undoubtedly thoroughly Long Beach—has long been experimenting with food. They were one of the first spots to give Shady Grove Foods a residency as a popup, and they also blew up the popularity Cambodian Cowboy Chad Phuong and Battambong BBQ from their parking lot. They’ve hosted Cajun Fests to honor the Sundstrom family’s creole-cajun background and Cambodian New Year celebrations.

1 week ago | longbeachize.com | Brian Addison

Prepare for the return of tea and cucumber sandwiches as The Wicked Wolf brings back its tea service this coming week. Tea service will now be offered Friday through Sunday 10AM to 4:00PM, with cocktail service every day beginning at 5PM. “The cost of supporting a startup caught up with us pretty quickly,” said owner Thea Mercouffer. “And, after a particularly slow month, I buckled at the weight of it. And announced we would close.

1 week ago | longbeachize.com | Brian Addison

Our Spot Coffee—the Long Beach popup headed by husband-and-wife team Chris and Ali McColl—has partnered with Belmont Shore’s underrated Liv’s for a new coffee residency. With a slate of new drinks—peach-matcha porch pounders meet strawberry-espresso creations—and Chef Rob White offering up Liv’s first morning offerings via a slate of breakfast burritos, it brings the city’s most unique breakfast collaboration.