{"id":4,"date":"2019-06-11T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999953496"},"modified":"2019-06-22T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:36:12","slug":"addison-steelhead-coffee-bluff-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/addison-steelhead-coffee-bluff-park","title":{"rendered":"Steelhead coffee shop opens third Long Beach location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John and Rany Aguirre have opened up their third Steelhead Coffee location in Bluff Park after opening their flagship location in Cal Heights over five years ago and a second location inside Steelcraft in Bixby Knolls three years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking over a former sandwich shop\u2014it was a bank before that; the Aguirres use the old vault as storage space\u2014the move marks further growth for the shop and solidifies the pair as an essential part of Long Beach’s coffee scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The interior of the Bluff Park location of Steelhead. Photo by Brian Addison.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That scene has expanded over the past decade, with Long Beach seeing an explosion of third-wave coffee that has managed to distinguish itself from the Los Angeles scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles, in many cases, has either shrunk or flat-out pushed out locally based roasters and shops\u2014we still miss you, Handsome Coffee\u2014to instead welcome massive third-wave brands like Blue Bottle (bought by Nestl\u00e9), Stumptown (acquired by Peet’s Coffee), and Intelligenstia (also Peet’s Coffee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The outside of the Bluff Park location of Steelhead. Photo by Brian Addison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Long Beach has harvested and celebrated its local roasters\u2014Lord Windsor, the city’s first, third-wave roaster has been followed by Rose Park, Recreational and Black Ring Coffee; all of them churning out beans with success\u2014while also celebrating its local shops that procure beans but don’t roast: new school shops like Steelhead, Wolf’s Brew, and Confidential Coffee sit side-by-side with OGs like Portfolio, Viento y Agua, and The Library, just a few steps away from the new Steelhead location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, Polly’s Gourmet Coffee has been producing classic European roasts since 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Though, admittedly, West Long Beach, in the never-ending tale of West Long Beach, has been entirely ignored by the coffee scene while the northside finally scored Black Ring Coffee last year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there could very well be a coffee saturation point in Long Beach\u2014the newfound love of cold brew has led to it being canned in marketplaces, while latte art no longer holds the wonder it once did\u2014this location is a smart move by the Aguirres. This area of Belmont Heights and Bluff Park has always thrived on being walkable and, in that sense, it is limited in accessing this type and quality of coffee. The nearby Library and kinda-nearby D\u00e9j\u00e0 Brew both serve run-of-the-mill brew, which makes the new Steelhead location ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steelhead in Bluff Park is located at 3350 E. Broadway.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Addison is a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post. <\/em>Reach him at brian@lbpost.com or on social media at Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John and Rany Aguirre have opened up their third Steelhead Coffee location in Bluff Park after opening their flagship location in Cal Heights over five years ago and a second location inside Steelcraft in Bixby Knolls three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":65537,"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":[12],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[1789],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-steelhead-coffee","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","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=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}