Given the Pike Bar & Grill's popularity, it naturally makes sense that Chris Reece, the owner and operator, was looking to expand—but not here in Long Beach, but in Los Alamitos in the middle of a nondescript strip mall, where his new location unlocked its doors for a soft opening on Monday.

Alegria has been a longtime staple of the Pine Ave. food scene, using the street as its home since opening in 1994. Given that, the restaurant was not only in need of a physical renovation but a culinary one as well.

While located in the center of City Place in Downtown, Milana’s New York Pizzeria is like a time warp across the East River to Brooklyn, where owner Adriel Fasci’s family immigrated to from Palermo, Italy. Everything inside Milana’s screams New York. The subway signs, the Yankees’ paraphernalia and mobster movie photos--and especially the pizza.

We know a breakfast burrito crawl would be beyond debilitating even for the heartiest of appetites… But that doesn’t mean we won’t bring up the gold mine-like stretch that is 4th Street. Surely we could have made a list of breakfast burritos throughout the city, but 4th from Grand to Elm avenues is home to ten—yes, ten—of the best places to mow down on breakfast burritos in Long Beach.

Eat LBC marks the city’s inaugural “restaurant week” which hopes to encourage both locals and outsiders to visit Long Beach’s vast array of culinary offerings with prix fixe menus at set prices.