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