{"id":162676,"date":"2026-02-03T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162676\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:36:07","slug":"the-melt-luna-grill-urbane-cafe-coming-to-new-restaurant-space-in-east-long-beach-eat-see-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162676\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melt, Luna Grill, Urbane Caf\u00e9 coming to new restaurant space in East Long Beach \u2022 Eat. See. Do."},"content":{"rendered":"

Four new restaurants are coming to the Bixby Village Plaza shopping center near Cal State Long Beach.<\/p>\n

California Fish Grill, The Melt, Luna Grill and Urbane Caf\u00e9 will all open \u201clater this summer and into the fall\u201d inside a new building at the corner of Seventh Street and Bellflower Boulevard, according to Westar Associates, the Newport Beach-based real estate development company that owns the shopping center.<\/p>\n

That CVS location closed in 2023, with the building demolished by early 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"This CVS building was demolished to make way for a new restaurant space at Seventh Street and Bellflower Boulevard. Photo courtesy of Westar Associates.<\/p>\n

Westar chose to replace the \u201cfunctionally obsolete building with thoughtfully designed retail space,\u201d the company\u2019s Chief Operating Officer Jud Dutrisac said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Westar Associates said it recently finished construction on a new building in its place and tenants are now working on their \u201cinterior buildout.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new eateries will join a shopping center that already has a bevy of food options along with a Target, a gas station and a U.S. Bank branch.<\/p>\n

The Melt<\/a>\u2019s menu features a variety of grilled cheese sandwiches as well as burgers, chicken sandwiches and salads. Once open, it will be The Melt\u2019s first location in Long Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luna Grill<\/a> offers Mediterranean items, while California Fish Grill<\/a> and Urbane Caf\u00e9<\/a> feature fast-casual lunch and dinner options.<\/p>\n

California Fish Grill and Urbane Caf\u00e9 both have locations at Long Beach Exchange. The next closest Luna Grill location is in Lakewood on Candlewood Street.<\/p>\n

Bixby Village Plaza is the only property Westar owns in Los Angeles County, according to its website<\/a>. The development company also owns Plaza Antonio and Sendero Marketplace in Orange County, along with eight other shopping centers spread throughout Santa Barbara, Riverside and San Luis Obispo counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four new restaurants are coming to the Bixby Village Plaza shopping center near Cal State Long Beach. California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-162676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}