{"id":284,"date":"2019-01-15T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999934645"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:26:27","slug":"peets-coffee-belmont-shore-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/peets-coffee-belmont-shore-closed","title":{"rendered":"Peet&#8217;s Coffee in Belmont Shore to close Jan. 25 after serving for over a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime caffeine staple Peet&#8217;s Coffee &amp; Tea shop in Belmont Shore will be closing on Jan. 25 according to a notice inside the shop.<\/p>\n<p>Having served the community since 2006, Peet&#8217;s became a local favorite amid fighting much larger chains like Starbucks (which, at its peak, had two locations at each end of the Shore, the eastern most one now Aroma di Roma).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gsMB9xuFd3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/philz-coffee-earl-sandwich-belmont-shore\">Philz Coffee, Earl of Sandwich opening up first Long Beach locations in Belmont Shore<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Philz Coffee, Earl of Sandwich opening up first Long Beach locations in Belmont Shore&#8221; &#8212; the Hi-lo\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/philz-coffee-earl-sandwich-belmont-shore\/embed\/#?secret=9X4aNp1N71#?secret=gsMB9xuFd3\" data-secret=\"gsMB9xuFd3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Peet&#8217;s spokesperson Elizabeth Ricardo has yet to return comment for this story, the question arises of whether the Shore location was simply losing its patronage slowly over time or if the onslaught of specialty coffee\u2014particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/food\/philz-coffee-earl-sandwich-belmont-shore\/\">the new Philz Coffee<\/a> that opened late last year just east of Peet&#8217;s in the Shore as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/food\/vibes-cafe-peninsula-restaurant\/\">more locally focused options like Vibes<\/a> on the nearby Peninsula\u2014hastened the shop&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Peet&#8217;s is located at 5246 E. Second St.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Addison is a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post.\u00a0<\/em><em>Reach him at\u00a0brian@lbpost.com\u00a0or on social media at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianAddisonLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BrianAddisonLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/BrianAddisonLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brianaddison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime caffeine staple Peet&#8217;s Coffee &#038; Tea shop in Belmont Shore will be closing up shop on Jan. 25 according to a notice inside the shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":65812,"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":[139],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-restaurant-closure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}