Soul food and soul care: An entrepreneurial family’s small business empire is expanding
Meet the family behind a soul food restaurant, a smoothie and wellness shop, and a salt lounge—all near St. Mary Medical Center not far from Downtown Long Beach.
Category: Food
A step by step guide to making a ‘foolproof’ pie crust for Thanksgiving
Ahead of Thanksgiving, Teri Appleton Villanueva of Chef Tech Cooking School in Bixby Knolls, an award-winning pastry chef, recently showed us how to make the perfect—perhaps foolproof—pie crust.
Free spice guide tells you what 7 spices you need to use, and probably already have in your kitchen
Chef Aydin’s advice for this Thanksgiving? “Dry brine the turkey.”
Meat & Vino will bring aged steaks, wine pairings with new Cal Heights butcher shop
Meat & Vino owner, Al Valadez, said he hopes to create an old-school butcher shop feel where everyone feels welcome, that’s why he chose to select a location that was embedded in a neighborhood.
Skip the store-bought food; here are 5 easy recipes to bring to a holiday feast
It’s not hard to make something from scratch—honestly. It takes a little bit of planning, a little bit of work, and you get the satisfaction of bringing something from you, for someone else, instead of a frantic stop at a chain grocery store.
The Cooks Bookery, a stand for used recipe books, pops up in Bixby Park Farmers Market
The inventory changes regularly and spans every indigenous food mecca from every corner of the world, and addresses every subject from chocolate to bread, to pain au chocolat.
New seafood restaurant in Belmont Shore sources its catch locally
Liv’s in Belmont Shore, which opened Sept. 1, sources its seafood from independent boats up and down the coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
Solita Mexican restaurant to take over former location of Rock Bottom Brewery
Solita offers Mexican street tacos, classic Mexican dishes, sweets and a wide selection of mezcal and tequila. The restaurant pulls inspiration from Baja California’s laid-back casual style with fire pits, open bars and outdoor dining.
Un “desfile de sabores”: restaurante El Paisa en Long Beach explora la cocina Colombiana
Música cumbia suena mientras el aroma de las empanadas tostadas, los buñuelos redondeados y el pan de bonos con queso que descansa sobre el mostrador caliente abrazan a los que ingresan al restaurante Colombiano El Paisa de Melvin Henríquez.
A ‘parade of flavors’: Long Beach’s El Paisa restaurant explores Colombian cuisine
Cumbia music plays as the aroma of toasty empanadas, rounded buñuelos and cheesy pan de bonos resting on the counter’s heated display embrace guests who walk in to Melvin Henriquez’ El Paisa Colombian restaurant.