{"id":2733,"date":"2015-03-19T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/in-pictures-taste-of-downtown-takes-over-the-east-village-3\/"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:14:22","slug":"in-pictures-taste-of-downtown-takes-over-the-east-village-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/in-pictures-taste-of-downtown-takes-over-the-east-village-3","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: Taste of Downtown Takes Over East Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo by Dennis Dean. Gallery photos by Dennis Dean and Dustin Liccardo.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Downtown Long Beach Associates’ signature Taste of Downtown is back, and in the first of a three-part series, the annual event took over Long Beach’s East Village Arts District on Broadway between Linden and Elm Wednesday night, with music, art, beer and wine, and mouth-watering samples from some of Downtown’s favorite restaurants. For those who missed out on the fun and food last night, don’t kick yourself just yet; it’s all happening again tonight.<\/p>\n

Americana jam band\u00a0Big Bad Rooster<\/a> provided the toe-tapping soundtrack while residents and visitors enjoyed beer and pulled pork sliders from Beachwood BBQ & Brewing<\/strong>, crispy spring rolls from recent East Village edition Thai District<\/strong> and rich, steaming-hot\u00a0housemade calzones with mozzarella from Michael’s Pizzaria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

James Republic<\/strong> was there plating beautiful, delicate wahoo poke paired with sangria, while Cielo at the Sky Room<\/strong> took it south of the border with their\u00a0braised short rib nachos, served with mole crema and queso fresco.<\/p>\n

Auld Dubliner<\/strong> kept the St. Patty’s day spirit alive with bangers and champ and spicy potatoes, while Buono’s Pizzeria<\/strong> reminded us that sometimes, nothing hits the spot quite like a slice of good old-fashioned pizza.<\/p>\n

For those looking to sate their sweet tooth, Bo-Beau Kitchen + Rooftap<\/strong> was on hand serving up creamy butterscotch pudding topped with decadent chocolate ganache, while Sweet Dixie Kitchen<\/strong>, true to its name, served up warm, gooey peach cobbler.<\/p>\n

With tickets only $1 each, and dishes from all of these restaurants\u2014plus other Downtown favorites like Kabob Curry<\/strong>, The Breakfast Bar<\/strong>, Utopia<\/strong>, Village Grind<\/strong>, Gladstone’s<\/strong> and Famous Dave’s BBQ<\/strong>\u2014going for between 1 and 5 tickets, participants were definitely tempted to try and sample everything. Suffice to say, no one left hungry.<\/p>\n

With bellies full, participants were welcomed to peruse East Village shops Anneise<\/strong>, 1897LB<\/strong>, Make Collective<\/strong> and Mona a la Moda<\/strong>‘s\u00a0pop-up shops set up on the sidewalk for a little after dinner shopping. And for anyone feeling a little artsy after a glass of wine (or a few),\u00a0Brushstrokes & Beverages<\/strong> was there with free painting for all, and an hourly drawing for a free art classes.<\/p>\n

Taste of Downtown East Village continues tonight from 6:00PM to 10:00PM in Long Beach’s East Village Arts District, on Broadway between Elm and Linden. Tickets can be pre-purchased\u2014with two bonus tickets for every $10 spent\u2014online until 3:00PM<\/a>, or at the event.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taste of Downtown is back in Long Beach’s East Village Arts District, with music, art, beer and wine, and mouth-watering samples from some of Downtown’s favorite restaurants. If you missed out on the fun and food last night, don’t kick yourself just yet; it’s all happening again tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68049,"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":[36],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2733","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\/2733","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}