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Accolades in Long Beach
Citywide, three restaurants hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, and our guide counts five exceptional wine programs. L'Opera Italian Restaurant, in Downtown Long Beach, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence on a sommelier-led list.
L'Opera Italian Restaurant, in Downtown Long Beach, is an Italian ristorante with live opera singers, near performing arts venues. The wine program is exceptional: an extensive list led by a sommelier. Meals are a la carte. Wine Spectator named it a Best of Award of Excellence in 2026.
Parkers' Lighthouse, in Shoreline Village, serves mesquite-grilled fresh seafood and sushi, with views of the Queen Mary. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list, a two-story wine cellar, and craft cocktails. Meals are a la carte. Wine Spectator gave it an Award of Excellence in 2026.
Queensview Steakhouse, in Shoreline Village, is a classic steakhouse with seafood and live jazz, in a supper club atmosphere, with 360-degree views of Long Beach Harbor, including the Queen Mary. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list and craft cocktails. Meals are a la carte. Wine Spectator gave it an Award of Excellence in 2026.
Sky Room, in Downtown Long Beach, is a rooftop restaurant for American fine dining with seafood, open since 1938 atop Fairmont Breakers Long Beach, with panoramic harbor views. The wine program is curated, with craft cocktails, and meals are a la carte. Wine Spectator gave it an Award of Excellence in 2026.
Heritage, in Rose Park, holds the Michelin star in our guide, dated 2026, on a tasting menu. The Attic, in Belmont Shore, and Chiang Rai, in Harbor, hold Michelin Plates for 2026.
Heritage, in Rose Park, is California fine dining in a historic 1922 Craftsman house. Siblings Philip and Lauren Pretty run the kitchen and front of house for a single multicourse tasting menu, with live-fire cooking over a Santa Maria grill and produce from their own farm. The wine program is curated. The latest Michelin award is one star for 2026.
The Attic, in Belmont Shore, serves modern Southern, Cajun, and Creole cooking in a converted Craftsman-style house with a multi-room interior. The wine program is curated, and the restaurant pours craft cocktails. Meals are a la carte. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026, following a Plate in 2025.
Chiang Rai, in Harbor, cooks Northern Thai street food, including Khao Soi with ribeye and Midnight Chicken. The wine program is standard. Beer and sake are poured with the food, and service is a la carte and small plates. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026.
Downtown Long Beach accounts for 16 venues in our guide, the highest neighborhood count. In that neighborhood, 555 East keeps an exceptional wine program, Fairmont Breakers Long Beach holds a Michelin 1 Key, and ALTER EGO pours classic cocktails inside the hotel.
555 East, in Downtown Long Beach, is a classic American steakhouse that has operated since 1984. The kitchen serves hand-cut dry-aged steaks on an a la carte menu. The wine program is exceptional, and the restaurant keeps an extensive wine list.
Fairmont Breakers Long Beach, in Downtown Long Beach, is a historic 1926 hotel, restored, with a rooftop pool overlooking the ocean and harbor. Michelin awarded a 1 Key in 2026, and the hotel is a Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner for that year. Sky Room, also in Downtown Long Beach, sits atop the building as the rooftop restaurant.
ALTER EGO, in Downtown Long Beach, is a late-night lounge inside Fairmont Breakers Long Beach. The lounge pours classic cocktails, craft cocktails, and zero-proof drinks, and the wine program is minimal. Rotating jazz performances are part of the lounge inside the hotel each night.
Our guide counts one Michelin-starred restaurant in Long Beach, and one Michelin star in total. Heritage, in the Rose Park neighborhood, holds the Michelin star for 2026. That restaurant alone makes up the citywide Michelin star count in our guide.
Sky Room in Downtown Long Beach, Parkers' Lighthouse in Shoreline Village, and Queensview Steakhouse in Shoreline Village hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. L'Opera Italian Restaurant in Downtown Long Beach holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Those four awards are dated 2026. Sky Room's program is curated. The other three programs are exceptional, and L'Opera's list is sommelier-led.
Heritage, in Rose Park, serves a single multicourse tasting menu of California fine dining. Siblings Philip and Lauren Pretty run the kitchen and front of house, with live-fire cooking over a Santa Maria grill and produce from their own farm. The wine program is curated.
Downtown Long Beach has the most venues of any neighborhood in our guide, with a total of 16. Restaurants and bars in that neighborhood include Sky Room, L'Opera Italian Restaurant, 555 East, and ALTER EGO, plus the hotel Fairmont Breakers Long Beach.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Heritage earned a Michelin star in 2025 with a single multicourse tasting menu served inside a converted Craftsman home in Long Beach's Rose Park neighborhood. Siblings Philip and Lauren Pretty run the kitchen and front of house, drawing on produce from a nearby farm to anchor cooking with a distinctly Californian accent. The price point sits below what the award tier typically commands.
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Gusto Bread is a 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery in Long Beach, CA.
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Two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) confirm what regulars on East Anaheim Street already know: Chiang Rai operates at a level that outpaces its price point.
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On the corner of Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach, L'Opera Italian Restaurant has anchored the city's formal dining scene for decades, drawing a loyal crowd to its classical Italian format at a time when the category has largely retreated from American city centers. The address alone signals something about the restaurant's ambitions: a corner position on Long Beach's main pedestrian corridor, where the room carries weight before the food arrives.
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Parkers' Lighthouse occupies a waterfront position on Long Beach's Shoreline Village strip, where the Pacific defines the plate as much as the kitchen does. Seafood-forward in character and shaped by Southern California's proximity to both coastal fisheries and agricultural inland valleys, it anchors a dining corridor that draws locals and visitors alike to the edge of the harbor.
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Positioned along the Shoreline Village waterfront at 435 Shoreline Village Drive, Queensview Steakhouse anchors the southern edge of Long Beach's dining corridor where the harbor meets the peninsula. The address places it squarely in the city's most visited stretch of coastline, where water views are the frame around which the meal is built. For steak in a city better known for seafood, it occupies a distinctive position on the waterfront dining circuit.
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Schooner Or Later serves Classic American Breakfast & Lunch on a waterfront terrace, with beer service and a conversational room that suits breakfast, brunch, or lunch.
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Sky Room occupies the upper floors of a building on Ocean Boulevard, where the Pacific horizon frames the dining room in a way that few venues in Long Beach can match. The address places it at the convergence of the city's waterfront ambition and its increasingly serious dining scene. For visitors mapping the city's higher-end options, it sits alongside names like Heritage and 555 East as part of a small tier where setting and cooking are both in play.
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Few Southern restaurants in Southern California carry Michelin recognition, and The Attic on East Broadway earns its 2025 Michelin Plate alongside a 4.,300 reviews. Positioned in the Belmont Heights neighbourhood, it operates as a genuine community anchor rather than a destination import, drawing regulars as reliably as first-timers.
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At 555 East Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach's steakhouse scene meets the city's coastal edge in a setting that draws a consistent crowd of locals and visitors. The restaurant occupies a prominent address and operates in a tier where service coordination and floor experience carry as much weight as the kitchen. For Long Beach, it sits at the upper end of the accessible dining bracket.
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Alli Kaphiy occupies a spot on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach's Wrigley neighborhood, a corridor where independent operators have quietly built a more locally rooted dining scene than anything found closer to the waterfront.
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Benley sits at 8191 E Wardlow Rd in Long Beach, California, occupying a quieter residential corridor that sets it apart from the city's more trafficked dining strips. For broader context on Long Beach dining, EP Club's full city guide covers the competitive field.
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Positioned on Long Beach's marina waterfront at 190 N Marina Dr, Boathouse on the Bay occupies one of the city's most distinctive dining addresses, where the water's edge defines both the setting and the experience. Among Long Beach's casual-to-mid-range waterfront options, it holds a clear geographic advantage that few competitors along the California coast can replicate at this proximity to the bay.
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Cafe Gazelle sits on La Verne Avenue in the Belmont Shore corridor of Long Beach, where the line between neighborhood café and social anchor is thin. The setting draws a local crowd that returns by habit rather than occasion, placing it in the texture of daily life along this stretch of Southern California coast. It represents the kind of address that fills a particular need in a dining scene otherwise tilted toward destination restaurants.
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Dairy Market Restaurant occupies a converted dairy facility on Dairy Avenue in North Long Beach, placing it in a part of the city that sits well outside the usual dining circuits around Retro Row and the waterfront. The address alone signals that this is not a venue built for passing trade. Visitors who make the trip tend to arrive with purpose.
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A long-standing neighborhood fixture on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore, Domenico's occupies the kind of address Long Beach residents treat as a reliable constant rather than a destination to discover. The room rewards repeat visitors, and the front-of-house rhythm reflects years of accumulated familiarity with a loyal crowd. For context on Long Beach's broader dining scene, see our full guide to the city.
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EJ Malloy's sits at 4306 Atlantic Ave in a stretch of Long Beach that runs on neighborhood rhythm rather than destination traffic. It operates in the register of the reliable local bar: honest pours, a room that doesn't require a brief, and regulars who return because nothing about it changes. In a city with growing fine-dining ambition, that consistency is its own argument.
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El Viejon Mariscos & Sushi occupies a corner address on East Broadway in downtown Long Beach, merging Mexican seafood traditions with a sushi format that reflects the city's Pacific-facing character. The combination places it in a category that downtown Long Beach handles better than most Southern California cities its size, where coastal proximity and Latino culinary influence converge on the same menu.
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On Pacific Coast Highway in Belmont Shore, Enrique's Mexican Restaurant occupies a stretch of Long Beach that rewards those eating their way through the city's less-heralded corridors. The kitchen works within a tradition that Southern California's coastal strip has sustained for decades, placing it alongside the neighbourhood's casual-to-mid registers rather than the downtown dining tier represented by venues like Heritage or 555 East.
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Fuego occupies a waterfront address along Long Beach's Queensway Drive, positioning it within a dining corridor where harbour views and open-fire cooking intersect. The restaurant draws on Southern California's seasonal produce and Pacific seafood while applying technique-forward approaches that place it above the casual waterfront tier. For Long Beach, it operates as a reference point where local ingredients meet disciplined execution.
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Positioned along East Pacific Coast Highway at the edge of Long Beach's coastal strip, Gaslamp sits in a stretch of the city where the dining scene has quietly grown more considered over the past decade.
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Gaucho Beach sits on Long Beach's Shoreline Drive waterfront, positioning itself within a tier of occasion-ready dining along the Southern California coast. The address places it steps from the water, making it a natural choice for milestone meals where setting carries as much weight as the menu. For context on where it sits within Long Beach's broader dining circuit, see EP Club's full city guide.
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George's Greek Cafe on 2nd Street in Long Beach occupies a corner of the Belmont Shore strip where casual dining and genuine Greek kitchen tradition meet without ceremony. The midday service runs at a different pace and price point than evenings, making it a practical choice for neighbourhood regulars and first-time visitors alike. It sits within a walkable stretch that defines the area's relaxed, eat-well culture.
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Georgia's Restaurant occupies a McGowen Street address in Long Beach's aerospace-adjacent east side, where neighborhood dining tends toward the practical rather than the performative. Against that backdrop, it represents a format worth understanding on its own terms — a community-rooted table in a city whose restaurant scene is increasingly defined by contrasts between coastal spectacle and quieter, more grounded operations.
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The Fairmont Breakers occupies a restored 1920s tower on Downtown Long Beach's oceanfront, positioning it among California's most architecturally significant hotel revivals. Ocean views, a landmark address at 210 E Ocean Blvd, and Fairmont service standards place it in a distinct tier above the city's mid-market hotel stock. It rewards guests who want history, design, and Pacific access in a single address.
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Alex's Bar occupies a corner of East Anaheim Street that has quietly anchored Long Beach's independent bar scene for years. The room rewards those who show up without a reservation and stay longer than planned. In a city with a growing cocktail culture, Alex's sits closer to the neighbourhood-institution end of the spectrum than the programmatic craft-bar end.
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ALTER EGO belongs to Long Beach’s late-night drinking conversation rather than its restaurant-first dining circuit. With no public awards, chef credit, price band, or formal cocktail list attached, the useful read is contextual: treat it as a city bar pick, then compare it against Long Beach’s pool-deck, dive-bar, and restaurant-bar options before planning the evening.
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Bai Plu Thai & Sushi Bar on North Bellflower Boulevard occupies a slice of Long Beach where Southeast Asian and Japanese cooking share the same kitchen. The combination format reflects a common Southern California hybrid tradition, where neighborhood demand for both Thai and Japanese flavors has produced a category of restaurants that bridges two distinct culinary lineages under one roof.
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A long-standing neighborhood fixture on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore, Domenico's occupies the kind of address Long Beach residents treat as a reliable constant rather than a destination to discover. The room rewards repeat visitors, and the front-of-house rhythm reflects years of accumulated familiarity with a loyal crowd. For context on Long Beach's broader dining scene, see our full guide to the city.
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Due Fiori occupies a corner of East 4th Street in Long Beach's Retro Row corridor, where the neighborhood's independent dining character runs thicker than almost anywhere else in the city. The address alone places it in a cluster of locally anchored spots that reward repeat visits. For anyone building an itinerary around Long Beach's bar and dining scene, it belongs on the shortlist.
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A neighborhood brewhouse on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach's Wrigley district, Dutch's BrewHouse draws a local crowd with craft beer and a relaxed, no-pretense atmosphere. It sits within a corridor of independently operated bars and restaurants that give this stretch of Long Beach its distinct, community-oriented character. Visit for the pour, stay for the room.
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La Traviata Restaurant at 301 N Cedar Ave occupies a corner of downtown Long Beach where Italian-American dining traditions have held ground against the city's shifting restaurant scene. For visitors planning ahead, the address puts it within reach of the civic core and waterfront district. Confirm current hours and booking directly before visiting, as operational details are not centrally listed.
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On East 4th Street in Long Beach's Retro Row corridor, Little Coyote occupies a stretch defined by independent bars and neighbourhood regulars rather than tourist traffic. The address places it inside a wider ecosystem of craft-focused venues that have quietly reshaped the city's after-dark options. For visitors mapping Long Beach beyond the waterfront, it warrants attention alongside the corridor's other fixtures.
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Los Compadres Restaurant on East Anaheim Street sits in a stretch of Long Beach that rewards repeat visitors over first-timers. The kind of address where the regulars arrive with a standing order and the room itself tells you more about the neighbourhood than any guide could. A reliable anchor in a corridor of independent operators doing honest, unpretentious work.
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Panvimarn Thai Cuisine occupies a suite space on North Bellflower Boulevard in Long Beach, positioning itself in a corner of the city where Thai cooking sits alongside a broader neighborhood dining mix. The menu structure and kitchen focus place it in the mid-tier of Long Beach's Thai restaurant conversation, drawing regulars who return for consistent execution rather than novelty.
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Roe Seafood on 2nd Street in Long Beach occupies a stretch of the city where a loyal neighbourhood following has built around focused, seafood-driven cooking. The restaurant draws repeat visitors who treat it as a reliable anchor in a dining corridor that includes both casual and serious options. For those tracking the evolution of coastal California seafood restaurants outside the Los Angeles spotlight, Roe is a consistent reference point.
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Selva occupies a stretch of East Anaheim Street where Long Beach's drinking culture runs closer to neighborhood loyalty than trend-chasing. The address places it in a part of the city where bars earn their regulars through consistency rather than press cycles, making it a useful reference point for anyone reading the wider Long Beach scene honestly.
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The 4th Horseman occupies a corner of downtown Long Beach's drinking scene where the drink program takes precedence over spectacle. Located at 121 W 4th St, it draws a crowd that reads menus rather than scans room aesthetics. In a city still defining its craft bar identity, the venue positions itself within the more serious, program-led tier of the Southern California cocktail circuit.
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A cocktail bar occupying the Midnight Oil building on Long Beach Boulevard, The Apothecary trades in the kind of precise, ingredient-forward drinks that have quietly reshaped the city's after-dark options. Its name signals the approach: measured, methodical, and a degree removed from the loud-and-casual end of the Long Beach bar scene. The address puts it within reach of downtown's evolving core.
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The Bamboo Club on East Anaheim Street brings tiki-adjacent drinking culture to Long Beach's east side, where the genre's mid-century theatrics sit alongside more contemporary cocktail thinking. The address places it within a stretch of bars and dining spots that collectively define the neighbourhood's after-dark character, making it a natural stop within any considered evening in the city.
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The Breakfast Bar on Atlantic Avenue occupies a specific position in Long Beach's drinking culture: a bar where the spirits collection is the program, not a supporting act. The address puts it in the older commercial grid of downtown, where the city's bar scene has been quietly maturing for years. For those who approach a back bar the way others approach a wine list, this is where to start.
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The Wild Chive occupies a stretch of East Broadway in Long Beach's Belmont Shore corridor, where the neighborhood's casual coastal character meets a more considered approach to dining. The address places it among a cluster of independently owned spots that define this part of the city, making it a useful reference point for understanding how Long Beach's restaurant scene has developed beyond its beach-town baseline.
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On Atlantic Avenue in the Bixby Knolls corridor, Thunderbolt Pizza occupies a slice of Long Beach's working-class dining tradition where pizza and casual drinking coexist without ceremony. The room rewards walk-ins over reservations, and the Atlantic Ave address places it squarely in a neighbourhood where independent operators have long outpaced chain competition. A practical pick for the area's after-work and weekend crowd.
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The address places it within walking distance of several independently owned drinking rooms that collectively define one of Southern California's more coherent bar streets.
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Wide Eyes Open Palms occupies a distinctive corner of Long Beach's independent bar and café scene at 416 Cherry Ave, drawing a crowd that values atmosphere over spectacle. The space operates in the tradition of neighborhood venues where the room itself sets the terms of the evening. For visitors charting a course through downtown Long Beach, it belongs on the itinerary alongside the city's strongest independent operators.
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