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Long Beach Black Restaurant Week is Jan. 22-29

We’re heading into the final stretch of Long Beach’s Black Restaurant Week, which ends on Jan. 29. Organized by Long Beach Food & Beverage, Long Beach Restaurant Week is an eight-day event celebrating African, African American and Caribbean fare in and around Long Beach. Also highlighted are Black-owned food businesses as well as Black chefs and bartenders.

On Jan. 26 join a pop-up chef event celebrating Long Beach Restaurant Week at Cove Hotel (200 E. Willow St., Long Beach).

Twenty-five restaurants are represented at this week-long event. Below there are descriptions of a few of the participants to activate your salivary glands:

Northtown Bistro operates as a pop-up restaurant in Long Beach, offering comfort foods of all sorts at any given time where ever they pop up. Check out their Instagram page @northtownbistro to get a sense of what the Bistro is cooking with.
https://www.instagram.com/northtownbistro/

Bouje Crab is on everyone’s radar for some authentic cajun cuisine. This is a brick-and-mortar restaurant that breathes new life into the Southern California landscape of New Orleans cajun cuisine. Their menu includes Cajun Crawfish & Shrimp Nachos,  New Orleans Style Gumbo, Cajun shrimp or lobster mac n cheese; loaded Shrimp Fries, their whole menu is food porn of the most decadent sort.
https://www.theboujiecrab.com/

Georgia’s offers some quality soul and cajun cuisine at their brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Long Beach Town Center. With specialties ranging from Chicken & Waffle, Gretchen’s Jambalaya, and Louisiana Tilapia & Shrimp, Blackened Chicken Pasta,
https://www.georgias-restaurant.com/

Mr. Fries sounds like comfort food heaven with fries at its base. French fries with BBQ bacon and ranch chicken; whether it’s fries, shrimp and chicken; chicken bacon parmesan; buffalo ranch chicken; honey garlic shrimp steak; and lemon garlic crab & shrimp.
https://www.mrfriesman.com/

Check out these links to more LB restaurants participating in Black Restaurant Week.

Devi’s Donuts and Sweets 
Extraordinary Banana Pudding
Smokin Crackers
Kats–gourmet cookies
A Pinch of Salt
Snocorner
Sal’s Gumbo Shack
Popcorn World
Loving Keiyas Catering
Twins Smokehouse BBQ
Fresh Off The Yacht Catering & Events
Miller Butler
Sumptuous
Comfort Wings Food Truck
Strong Beach Lemonade
Smakkd Refresher and Tea
Cakedtails
Mimi’s Cotton Candy

Time: 4:30 p.m. to closing, Jan. 24
Cost: Various
Details: https://blackrestaurantweeklb.com 
Venue: Trademark Brewing, 233 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

Terelle Jerricks

During his two decade tenure, he has investigated, reported on, written and assisted with hundreds of stories related to environmental concerns, affordable housing, development that exacerbates wealth inequality and the housing crisis, labor issues and community policing or the lack thereof.

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