{"id":1550,"date":"2017-02-24T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachize.com\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2017-02-24T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:21:57","slug":"dtlbs-newest-grub-hub-will-be-a-gastropub-across-the-street-from-two-gastropubs-without-the-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/dtlbs-newest-grub-hub-will-be-a-gastropub-across-the-street-from-two-gastropubs-without-the-beer","title":{"rendered":"DTLB’s Newest Grub Hub Will Be a Gastropub-y Joint (Across the Street from Two Gastropubs) Without the Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction continues on City Place, where it\u00a0will welcome the new BurgerIM chain. Photo by Brian Addison.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unsure if Downtown Long Beach’s visitors, workers, and residents aren’t already content with the quality of the plethora of high-quality gastropubs in the vacinity\u2013Beachwood, Beer Belly Congregation, and Dog Haus are all within a\u00a0block<\/em>\u2014the newest addition to the eating scene will be BurgerIM at the northwest corner of 3rd and Long Beach Blvd. in the still-in-renovation-mode City Place.<\/p>\n

Okay, technically not a gastropub because it won’t be serving, well, beer\u2014but if you’re gonna be slingin’ more heavy food at me, Long Beach, at least provide me the decency of a good buzz. And while it will sit literally across the street from Dog Haus and Beer Belly on 3rd, it will be rock throwing distance from Beachwood, Congregation, and Hamburger Mary’s as well.<\/p>\n

The franchise chain, now up to 80 locations, specializes in sliders<\/a>. Ten\u00a0types to be precise:\u00a0beef, dry-aged beef, waygu beef, spicy beef, turkey, lamb, chicken, salmon, chorizo, and good ol\u2019 veggie patties are you base options while you can pile on anything from a sunny-side egg to pineapple. (To each their own.)<\/p>\n

My critique of DTLB overdosing on the burger scene\u00a0isn’t a slight to BurgerIM, DTLB, or City Place\u2014but it is very much an alarm that the following places need to be nixed from the future agenda of DTLB eateries so we can expand our options: gastropubs, Thai joints, coffee joints, poke, and chains.<\/p>\n

What would be a warm welcome to the culinary conglomeration: ramen (just one joint in Bixby Knolls isn’t enough<\/a>), Ethiopian (there’s a woman who makes it out of her home in LB as a cottage business but that is it), Central American (El Salvadorian or Honduran, perhaps?), a distillery (please<\/em>), barbecue (we’re eyin’ you, Robert Earl<\/a>), anything remotely within the spectrum of\u00a0Petit Trois<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0All Flavor No Grease<\/a>… I could\u00a0go on and on as could\u00a0a ton of residents.<\/p>\n

Reach out to ’em\u2014they’re rich with ideas. Meanwhile, we’ll welcome BurgerIM with open arms (just know we’ll be stepping across the street if we want our sliders with beer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction continues on City Place, where it\u00a0will welcome the new BurgerIM chain. Photo by Brian Addison. Unsure if Downtown Long Beach’s visitors, workers, and residents aren’t already content with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":66949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[736,805,783,297],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-beer-belly","tag-burgerim","tag-city-place","tag-dtlb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}