{"id":4271,"date":"2012-10-11T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/people-post-a-case-for-growing-long-beach-s-culinary-reputation-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T21:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:40:42","slug":"people-post-a-case-for-growing-long-beach-s-culinary-reputation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/people-post-a-case-for-growing-long-beach-s-culinary-reputation-2","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Growing Long Beach’s Culinary Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Eric Gray |<\/strong> Foodies are everywhere. They live with us, are related to us, they are our friends, neighbors, lovers, coworkers, etc\u2026 and they are definitely eating among us in Long Beach.<\/p>\n

Every great city is known for their food. Take New York and San Francisco for example.  Visitors know that when they are traveling to these cities, they can expect a wide variety of restaurants and food choices that will satisfy the taste buds and tantalize the mind.<\/p>\n

Long Beach is no different. We are a growing city, and we do have great restaurants and eateries. This comes as a surprise to many people who first learn this. Take the recent Zagat Survey for example that awarded three local Long Beach restaurants #1 spots in three of their categories. Michael\u2019s Pizzeria is listed as the number one pizza restaurant in Los Angeles, Michael\u2019s on Naples is listed as Top Italian, and Sir Winston\u2019s is listed as Best D\u00e9cor located on the Queen Mary. The very same article that lists these results from blog.zagat.com felt the need to educate residents in Los Angeles to the fact that Long Beach is actually in Los Angeles County, and not in Orange County.<\/p>\n

This brings me to why I believe we should grow our foodie reputation in the City of Long Beach. Foodie cities are more exciting, they bring in more money to the local economy, they help to create new jobs, they help to attract new businesses, and they add to the local tax base. I think it\u2019s a win-win situation for the City of Long Beach and all of us who live here. We already have the great restaurants and Business Districts. Who hasn\u2019t found a great find in Belmont Shore, Downtown, Retro Row, Cambodia Town, Bixby Knolls, or On Broadway for example?<\/p>\n

In 2011, I created a Facebook Page called Culinary Long Beach to help grow the foodie reputation of our City of Long Beach. In the same year, we established the 2011 Foodie Awards and came up with 20 categories that people who were part of the Facebook page could vote on. Now, a year later, polls to the 2012 Foodie Awards are opening soon with new categories like \u201cBest French Macaron\u201d and \u201cBest New Restaurant\u201d. It\u2019s exciting times in Long Beach, CA and I think now is the time to grow our Culinary Reputation.<\/p>\n

If you would like to be \u201cin the know\u201d of new food establishments or if you would like to vote in the 2012 Foodie Awards, please like our Culinary Long Beach Facebook page below:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Culinary-Long-Beach-CA\/220485687968943<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Eric Gray | I believe we should grow our foodie reputation in the City of Long Beach. Foodie cities are more exciting, they bring in more money to the local economy, they help to create new jobs, they help to attract new businesses, and they add to the local tax base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}