In an age where food is increasingly removed from the hands that make and serve it—amid the rise of Postmates and ghost kitchens—Lorenzo Mottola of Vino e Cucina seeks to create a return to classic Italian hospitality in an area of Long Beach long known for lacking quality food.
While Taco Fest celebrated its inaugural year last year, 2022 proves to be the year it flexes hard: Bringing in a stunning list of taco offerings, it cements the festival as a premiere event among a seemingly endless list of taco festivals.
The father-and-son team behind one of Long Beach’s most anticipated brick-and-mortars proudly proclaim their food as “Long Beach barbecue,” where stick ribs marinated in fish sauce and pork chops topped with pineapple and cilantro are run of the mill.
Peru’s rich history of Asian immigrants—particularly Japanese and Chinese—have brought with it an equally rich development of sushi as seen through a Peruvian lens thanks to the children of Asian descent. Sushi Nikkei is but one of the world’s examples of that.
While bibliophiles will seemingly forever lament the formal loss of Acres of Books, its future as a potential food hall serving DTLB takes one step closer to fruition.