{"id":25,"date":"2019-05-31T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999952289"},"modified":"2019-10-14T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:44:44","slug":"addison-westin-dtlb-bluestone-lane-new-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/addison-westin-dtlb-bluestone-lane-new-restaurant","title":{"rendered":"Westin’s $23-million renovation to include popular Bluestone Lane coffee shop, new restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

As work continues on the $23 million renovation of Downtown’s Westin Long Beach, renderings reveal that two of the new spaces in its lobby\u2014the first Bluestone Lane coffee shop outside of the heart of Los Angeles and an entirely new restaurant concept dubbed Navy Proof Food & Spirits\u2014will be major parts of the project’s highlights.<\/p>\n

Bluestone Lane, the cafe chain that advertises itself as the squint-inducing “Australian-life inspired” coffee shop, has been quickly expanding since the project received funding from billionaire Stephen Ross, owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, who recently\u00a0gave $19.5 million\u00a0funding to acquire a minority stake in Bluestone.<\/p>\n

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Rendering of the Westin’s lobby renovation. Courtesy of NoTriangle Studio\/VANROOY Design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since that investment in the summer of last year, Bluestone has been on an aggressive opening platform, announcing some 60 shops across the nation. Within Los Angeles, locations have already popped up in Venice, Santa Monica, and more neighborhoods.\u00a0It also marks\u2014much like the craft beer industry<\/a>\u2014a reflected interest in the third-wave coffee scene: Nestl\u00e9 acquired San Francisco-based Blue Bottle<\/a> while Peet’s Coffee acquired Portland’s Stumptown and Chicago’s Intelligentsia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Westin will be taking on Chef\u00a0Chris Garasic\u2014the man behind Zinc at the Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach and most recently Malibu Farm Lido in Newport Beach\u2014for\u00a0Navy Proof Food & Spirits.<\/p>\n

Harkening to both our closeness to the ocean as well as California’s immigrant food,\u00a0Garasic’s menu will range from a duck confit bahn mi to raw bar offerings to a breakfast item dubbed “The Longshoreman,” your basic meat-and-potatoes breakfast plate.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re thrilled to bring a new concept to the shores of Long Beach,” Garasic said in a statement.\u00a0“Our menu and atmosphere pay tribute to our surroundings, from dishes like California spot prawns, sea scallops and fried green tomatoes to custom artwork and living greenery. We can\u2019t wait to welcome both travelers and locals in for an exceptional experience.”<\/p>\n

The project is expected to be completed by this summer.<\/p>\n

Brian Addison is a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post.\u00a0<\/em>Reach him at\u00a0brian@lbpost.com\u00a0or on social media at\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The renovation of the Westin hotel in reveal that two of the new food spaces in its lobby will be major parts of the project’s highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":65558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[36],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2691],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-downtown-long-beach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}