Simmzy's Is Breaking Down the Wall

Some readers still don't seem to get that while Long Beach isn't in Orange County, we still cover it. We just do. But boy, am I lucky for it, because the city of Queen Mary and Snoop Dogg has many wonderful restaurants in an area that spans 50...

You know the feeling: when they come around after you've demolished your meal, asking if you have room for dessert. You want something sweet to round off the night, but the dessert menu is the same tired list of cheesecakes and molten lava cakes...

Buy gift cards from your local restaurants to give them some much-needed cash flow right now—and help them help a worthy cause while you’re at it. Los Angeles has partnered with Wagstaff Media & Marketing and a number of L.A. chefs to launch the...

We OC-dwellers may not yet be familiar with Simmzy's, but the people of Manhattan Beach are.  It's one of their most popular gastropubs and now that popularity has allowed the restaurant to expand southward into Long Beach's Belmont Shore. ] This...

The life of a certain kind of restaurant, one is given to understand, can be nasty, brutish and short. A bakery-cafe concept, reborn as an Asian fusion restaurant, may already be out of business in its new incarnation as a Mexican-leaning...