BLACK Bar will be shuttering at the end of April, marking an end to the women-owned space that has defined the corner of Broadway and Hermosa Avenue for nearly a decade. The specific date is yet to be determined but will be announced through their social media. Come post-escrow, Pamela and Joshua Beadel—the hospitality workers-turned-owners who operate The Breakfast Bar’s two locations—will be taking the place the over.
“We, sadly, had to sell it,” co-owner Shannon McManus said. “It’s been, frankly put, just rough: The combination of ever-increasing operational costs and the fact that the damage of the pandemic never really mended… It’s made it impossible to continue.”
What BLACK Bar’s Long Beach location was—and its role in the larger picture of the neighborhood.
Bethany Black and Shannon McManus, owners of Black in Hollywood, are a pair of nighttime veterans when it comes to the bar scene in Los Angeles, with McManus having operated the famed Viper Room from 1993 to 1998, where Bethany also worked; following, they ran the Darkroom on Melrose. It wasn’t until 2013 that BLACK in Hollywood became their focus (bringing on skating photographer Atiba Jefferson on as an investor)…