Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention, is developing, or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Broadway Bar repaints; prepares for mural
Broadway Bar—toward the westernmost part of the Gayborhood in Long Beach—is about to get a facelift: The building is getting a much brighter paint of off-white over its previous tan body while its Cerritos Avenue-facing side will eventually get a mural.
Good Day Cafe closes on 4th Street
Good Day Cafe has permanently shuttered. And it’s closure isn’t eyebrow-raising simply because another independent concept has gone dark. Rather, it is because it occupied a space already layered with meaning for Long Beach’s queer community. Taking over the former home of Wide Eyes Open Palms, the beloved queer coffeehouse that became a soft landing place for conversation, community, and visibility, Good Day arrived with its own sense of intent: lesbian-owned, intimate, and rooted in the idea that hospitality could still feel personal and safe. Its closure is more than a business shuttering; it is another reminder that even places with cultural weight, identity, and community value remain vulnerable under the pressures squeezing independent operators: rising costs, thinner margins, and the exhausting reality that meaning alone does not always pay the rent.
Lola’s partners with CoffeeDrunk for collaboration
Lola’s Mexican Cuisine has partnered with CoffeeDrunk to create a play on classic cafe de olla. You can score the drink hot or iced, with espresso or matcha, and it includes house-made cafe de olla, milk, orange, and cinnamon.
Hare up for sale as bar attempts to realign bar program with seasoned vet
The Hare quietly went up for sale less than eight months into its tenure on Broadway. Taking over the former BLACK Bar space and returning it to its queer roots, its former partner and bar manager, Melissa Almeraz, has completely left operations. In her place? Long Beach cocktail veteran Jocelyn Jolly—which, for those who know local cocktails, should be music to the ears. She understands the space is for sale but says that owners Joshua and Pamela Beadel “are trying to avoid giving up on the business in any capacity they can.”
Jocelyn is the master who cemented the now-shuttered Michael’s on Naples as one of the city’s best cocktail programs. She and the Beadels have “a whole plan to elevate the bar and do a whole new cocktail menu and happy hour,” Jocelyn said. Look for the full feature when that comes to fruition…
La Parolaccia hosting their focaccia popup at CoffeeDrunk in Bixby Knolls
La Parolaccia’s pizzaiolo and front-facing, good-all-around human Michael Procaccini will be doing his focaccia popup yet again at Bixby Knolls on Saturday, Mar. 14 from 11AM until sell-out. What to expect? The man’s rightfully lauded paninis, of course. Your choice of veggies, mortadella, or salami.
Bamboo Teri House celebrates 41st birthday with Customer Appreciation Week
Bamboo Teri House is celebrating its 41st anniversary with a weeklong customer appreciation promotion running Mar. 20 through Mar. 28, offering guests 50% off six customer-favorite menu items: the Super Bowl, Chicken Teriyaki Bowl, California Roll, Spicy Tuna Roll, Chicken Katsu Curry, and Oriental Chicken Salad. According to the promotion, the discount applies only to these featured items, with a limit of 10 items per customer and no substitutions allowed.
Long Beach Last Call 2026—a 15-event celebration of our city’s bar scene across 10 days—saw hundreds upon hundreds of people pour out to honor one of the most thankless industries: those that work behind our bars and create our cocktails.
Royal Indian Curry House is officially open in DTLB. But it’s far more than just a restaurant opening…