{"id":1245,"date":"2017-08-26T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachize.com\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2017-08-26T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T19:36:41","slug":"long-beach-foodie-update-longtime-favorite-last-cafe-closes-shop-seabirds-opens-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/long-beach-foodie-update-longtime-favorite-last-cafe-closes-shop-seabirds-opens-4th","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Foodie Update: Longtime Favorite At Last Cafe Closes Up Shop; Seabirds Opens on 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by Brian Addison<\/em><\/p>\n

After a decade, Long Beach is losing one of its defining neighborhood restaurants.<\/p>\n

When classically trained Chef John McLaughlin opened At Last Caf\u00e9 in the Gayborhood of Long Beach in 2007, just a bit south of Broadway at Orange, his French-forward cuisine was astounding in terms of local food at the time\u2014so the community is mourning the fact that he is serving his last plates of food to the public today.<\/p>\n

From his famed brick chicken to lamb ossobucco, McLaughlin’s take on a neighborhood eatery echoed the many fantastic restaurants that litter French towns and cities: comfortable and humble, their success forced them to expand in 2010 and taking over the corner with sidewalk dining in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked to comment, McLaughlin stated, “It’s been nine wonderful years. We will miss our friends and neighbors. I couldn’t have done it without my wife.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, vegans\u00a0and veggie lovers should be ecstatic that food truck pioneer Seabirds Kitchen has officially opened their long-awaited a brick-and-mortar at 965 E 4th St.<\/a>\u00a0(at the former Bond\u2019s Home Appliances building that was lost in a fire last year.)<\/p>\n

\"ScreenFamous for their beer-battered avocado tacos, Seabirds opened its truck in 2010 with the sole mission of \u201cpushing the boundaries of vegan cuisine.\u201d That mission proved successful, giving the restaurant, well, an actual restaurant with a location at Costa Mesa\u2019s The LAB (whose owner,\u00a0Shaheen Sadeghi,\u00a0bought a huge lot in North Long Beach<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It is a welcomed and much-needed vegan option\u2014directly across from a McDonald\u2019s, by the way, scoring extra points for Awesome Dichotomy\u2014for the stretch of 4th that is home to everything from Hole Mole\u2019s fast Mexican to Number Nine\u2019s wypipo ph\u1edf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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