Dirty Birds—San Diego’s mighty chicken wing empire that has never stepped outside its home base—is officially opening a Downtown Long Beach location, according to a press release from the building’s owner, Bascom Group.
Dirty Birds has signed a lease for roughly 3,000 square feet on the ground floor of the office building at 200 Pine Avenue, a six-story structure whose ground floor currently hosts Agaves on its northwest side. They opted out of the even larger 5,000-square-foot basement space that has long been attached to the ground-floor space as a speakeasy/lounge extension. (Though Paul Diamond, Senior Principal at Boscom, said, “We have had a lot of interest from bar owners to make this a speakeasy-type of club with private access from the parking garage.” Fingers crossed.)
The space is what brokers call “second-generation,” meaning it was previously built out as a restaurant. It was previously home to Octopus, a middling sushi concept that was clutch for lunch during DTLB’s pre-pandemic office boom. That was followed by the never-actually-opened Kraft & Kulture concept.
While no official opening date has been set, ownership is targeting a debut later this year.
Wait—what is Dirty Birds and what can we expect from its Long Beach location?
Dirty Birds has carved out a space that feels distinctly San Diegan. Sports-centered. Neighborhood-centric. And unapologetically centered on wings, beer, and the game on TV…