{"id":2093,"date":"2016-01-23T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/long-beach-airport-nominated-for-usa-today-s-10best-airport-for-dining-list\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:56:46","slug":"long-beach-airport-nominated-for-usa-today-s-10best-airport-for-dining-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/long-beach-airport-nominated-for-usa-today-s-10best-airport-for-dining-list","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Airport Nominated for USATODAY&#8217;s 10Best Airport for Dining List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-27513\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LB-POST-0733.jpg\" alt=\"LB-POST-0733\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-22612\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LGBdining2.jpg\" alt=\"LGBdining2\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/>Long Beach Airport (LGB) has been nominated for <em>USA Today<\/em>\u2019s 10Best Airport for Dining list by readers of<em> USA TODAY<\/em> and 10Best, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10best.com\/awards\/travel\/best-airport-for-dining\/\">website<\/a>.\u00a0And can you blame \u2018em?<\/p>\n<p>LGB has a concentrated section of some our city\u2019s best places to grub, a difficult dilemma when it comes to choosing your pre-flight meal or beverage, but a clear visual marker of not only our airport\u2019s taste in cuisine, but Long Beach\u2019s revered restaurant business.<\/p>\n<p>With wine, beer and small plates offered by Retro Row\u2019s 4th Street Vine Wine &amp; Beer Bar to the always hearty Greek staples served at downtown\u2019s George\u2019s Greek Cafe, LGB fittingly carries some of Long Beach\u2019s most well known flavors. Not to mention the South Concourse carries Polly\u2019s Coffee &amp; Sweet Jill\u2019s Bakery, two Belmont Shore-based businesses that have always added a little sweetness and a smile to their loyal patrons.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5:00PM on Friday, LGB sits in a resounding second place just behind Denver International Airport, with Los Angeles International Airport in a close fifth place. Let\u2019s show <em>USA Today<\/em> that Long Beach has the Best Airport for Dining by voting once a day before February 10 at 9:00AM.<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10best.com\/awards\/travel\/best-airport-for-dining\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0to vote and check on how LGB ranks so far!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Sarah Bennett.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach Airport (LGB) has been nominated for <em>USA Today<\/em>\u2019s 10Best Airport for Dining list by readers of <em>USA TODAY<\/em> and 10Best, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10best.com\/awards\/travel\/best-airport-for-dining\/\">website<\/a>.\u00a0And can you blame \u2018em? LGB has a concentrated section of some our city\u2019s best places to grub.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":67462,"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":[1007],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-lgb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}