{"id":76250,"date":"2023-08-08T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=76250"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:46:54","slug":"taste-of-downtown-aug-9-10-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/taste-of-downtown-aug-9-10-2023","title":{"rendered":"Say goodbye to summer with the last Taste of Downtown this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third and final Taste of Downtown event of the summer will take place at the waterfront between Shoreline Village and Pine Avenue on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 9 and 10.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Downtown Long Beach Alliance, the event gives people a chance to taste bites of food and drinks from multiple Downtown restaurants and bars as well as enjoy live music and art.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night will have music from the local group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manueltheband.com\/\">Manuel the Band<\/a> and Thursday night will feature DJ crew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/urbansocietylb\/?hl=en\">Urban Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the event is free, but sampling food and drinks requires tickets. Tickets can be purchased online (which is recommended to avoid lines) or at the event for $1 per ticket. For a package of 20 tickets, which costs $20, you can guarantee a couple tastes and a couple drinks. Leftover tickets from the previous two Taste of Downtown events this year will be honored.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of vendors who will be offering food samples and drinks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Breakfast Bar<\/li>\n<li>Cave Prime Steak<\/li>\n<li>Cena Vegan<\/li>\n<li>Auld Dubliner<\/li>\n<li>Padre &amp; Mezcalero<\/li>\n<li>Buono&#8217;s Pizzeria<\/li>\n<li>Ladie Kakes<\/li>\n<li>Beachwood Brewing<\/li>\n<li>The Ordinarie<\/li>\n<li>Gladstone&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Ruth&#8217;s Chris Steakhouse<\/li>\n<li>Parkers\u2019 Lighthouse<\/li>\n<li>Chez Bacchus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For people riding their bikes to the event, Pedal Movement will have a bike valet available.<\/p>\n<p>The event will run from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m, although it&#8217;s recommended to go early because some vendors may run out before the end of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event gives people a chance to taste bites of food and drinks from multiple Downtown restaurants and bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":76254,"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":[6],"tags":[153],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32152],"class_list":["post-76250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76250","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\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76257,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76250\/revisions\/76257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76250"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=76250"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=76250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}