Business Beat: High-end pizza, fall menus arrive

Long Beach

Pizza

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele volition beryllium opening successful summertime 2022 astatine 4611 E. Second St. successful Belmont Shore (the erstwhile determination of Papalucci’s Italian Ristorante) .

This volition beryllium the 2nd eatery successful California for restaurateur Francesco Zimone and Neapolitan cook Michele Rubini. The duo opened their Hollywood edifice 2 years ago. Based connected reviews connected line, they service the “best pizza successful the world.”

There are a fig of caller businesses choosing to unfastened successful Long Beach, and knowing what drives the prime tin beryllium insightful.

“My household is from Long Beach truthful I consciousness personally attached to the city,” Zimone said successful an email. “The abstraction was abandoned and sitting successful a country is truthful beautiful. It genuinely deserves to beryllium the ‘center of the village,’ which is besides our goal. We emotion to bring radical together. And Long Beach has the household operation that I love.”

The plans to heighten the abstraction look to beryllium extensive, and the enactment has started already. Neighbors person been funny erstwhile the pizzeria volition open.

“We would emotion to unfastened ASAP. But I deliberation the landlord inactive has a mates of months of enactment and we volition person a fewer ourselves. Our extremity is the Fourth of July. Hopefully before,” Zimone said.

Fall food

Several Long Beach country restaurants are launching their autumn play menus:

Panxa Cocina astatine 3937 E. Broadway successful Belmont Heights, with a paper that focuses connected the flavors of New Mexico, has been successful Long Beach for 7 years. Panxa Chef/Owner Arthur Gonzalez has released his caller autumn paper with dishes similar Duck Carnitas, Elk Chop with Mole, Goat Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossom drizzled with Poblano Honey, Chili Dusted Niman Ranch Pork Chop, Anchiote Cornish Game Hen and Fry Bread Taco.

Noble Bird Rotisserie astatine 2ND & PCH is known for its wholly dairy-free, tree-nut escaped and peanut escaped restaurant, and has immoderate caller autumn paper dishes. They see Ratatouille and a caller Harvest Bowl (with lukewarm grains) and Thai Noodle Salad (made with nary peanuts but with a house-made chickpea food that tastes similar a peanut dressing).

Chef Andrew bakes caller dairy escaped cocoa chunk cookies daily. On the brunch menu, caller offerings see Chicken and Waffles (with maple bacon), Huevos Rancheros, Kid’s Waffles and a Birdie Breakfast of scrambled egg, crisp sauteed greenish beans, roasted tomatoes and state toast.

Returning paper items see dairy-free Pot Pie, Blueberry Black Rice and Butternut Squash with Candied Ginger.

The Hideaway astatine 4137 Anaheim St. successful the Zaferia country precocious introduced its caller autumn paper focused connected signature fare of hearty steaks and chops with a bourbon oregon whisky cocktail to accompany.

The autumn brunch paper includes Country Fried Flat Iron Steak, Date Shake Pancakes and Bacon Steak.

Restaurateurs successful Long Beach look to person a zest for this town, and a pridefulness that runs deep.

“The assemblage of Long Beach is truly the crushed wherefore we got into the edifice business,” Geoff Rau, proprietor of The Hideaway and a founding subordinate of the Long Beach Restaurant Association, wrote successful an email. “It is the passionateness and intent of the radical who unrecorded and enactment successful this city, and present astatine The Hideaway, that continues to thrust america each day. I americium arrogant to accidental we didn’t person to fto anyone spell during the pandemic. We rehired and focused connected our radical and our community.

“When we opened The Hideaway, radical said a steakhouse would ne'er enactment successful that area. The Zaferia District and the Anaheim Street agelong was at 1 constituent not considered harmless astatine night. It has seen a resurgence. I present spot radical walking from Bamboo Club to Tennesse Jack’s, Port City Tavern, and The Hideaway,” he went connected to say.