{"id":175781,"date":"2026-02-13T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175781\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:44:08","slug":"los-al-honors-250th-anniversary-taboon-restaurant-in-mayors-business-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175781\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Al honors 250th Anniversary, Taboon Restaurant in Mayor\u2019s business spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rabi Haddad of Taboon Middle Eastern Restaurant.
\nCourtesy photo<\/p>\n

A Los Alamitos City Council member has urged the residents in her city and beyond to put on their patriotic outfits and join the ongoing celebrations of America\u2019s 250th Anniversary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year marks our 250th year as a country,\u201d said Council member Emily Hibbard, who directed everyday citizens to visit America250.org, a website organizing events for this summer\u2019s anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I am mentioning it here tonight is that the site is featuring American stories. And many of you know that I am very patriotic. I was on D Day for the 80th anniversary. I first heard about this organization from the Daughters of the American Revolution. I am a daughter of the American Revolution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does that mean? It means that I\u2019m the direct descendant of a Pennsylvania farmer who fought in the American Revolution,\u201d Hibard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, for me, America\u2019s 250 isn\u2019t just a series of events celebrating the greatest country on Earth this year, but it\u2019s personal for me, since I am the descendant of someone who helped establish this country,\u201d Hibard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are American stories,\u201d said Hibard, \u201cand I\u2019d love to help get some Los Alamitos stories shared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Tanya Doby celebrated Rabi Haddad, the owner of Mediterranean restaurants in Los Alamitos and Long Beach in the city\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Business Spotlight program, a free program in which the mayor pays tribute to a local vendor to thank them for operating in the city.<\/p>\n

Doby praised the restaurant\u2019s garlic sauce, noting it \u201csmelled so strong\u201d and \u201ctasted so good\u201d, but by the time she got home, \u201cmy husband couldn\u2019t tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a dream come true,\u201d said Haddad, noting they opened their first location in Long Beach eight years ago before more recently establishing a restaurant in Los Alamitos.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel very grateful for the support we get from the neighbors and the local community here. We want to give back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this program is amazing. Very few cities do this, and it really matters. It\u2019s really helping small businesses,\u201d Haddad told Doby.<\/p>\n

Haddad said they serve Greek, Spanish, but predominantly Middle Eastern and Mediterranean. \u201cOur food is very much coming from the area of Jerusalem, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. These are the countries that inspired it,\u201d Doby said.<\/p>\n

Doby also accepted a financial contribution from Marilyn Bates, the widow of the late Council member and Mayor Ron Bates, who served multiple terms as Mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of both my husband and myself, I\u2019d like to tell you a little bit about him for a minute. Ron passed away four years ago, and he was a councilman for, I think, something like 16 years, and I was on the school board, and some of those years we were there at the same time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were some people who were worried about that and ended up not needing to be worried about. All was good,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other opportunity that we\u2019ve had over the years is to show our recognition to all of the great work that\u2019s being done for which we can donate money, and that is really a pleasure to do,\u201d she said, presenting an unspecified check to Doby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabi Haddad of Taboon Middle Eastern Restaurant. Courtesy photo A Los Alamitos City Council member has urged the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-175781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175781","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=175781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}