{"id":184741,"date":"2026-02-19T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:58:13","slug":"dig-the-beachy-bar-scene-at-long-beach-last-call-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184741\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig the Beachy Bar Scene at Long Beach Last Call 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10-day festival of booze includes an all-female mixology competition<\/p>\n

Prohibition was in full swing during the years Long Beach\u2019s oldest bars were founded. We\u2019ll let the ABC and the bars hash out the jazz age history of places like Joe Jost\u2019s<\/a> and Thirsty Isle<\/a> founded in the 1920s, during the age of the 18th amendment. <\/p>\n

Once booze was made legal again in 1933, joints like the V Room and O\u2019Connell\u2019s started the taps flowing again. Today, the port city is swimming in places to imbibe, so the fine folks at Visit Long Beach came up with Long Beach Last Call.<\/a> The 10-day celebration of bar culture by the sea celebrates dozens of breweries, cocktail lounges, burger joints and glamorous gin joints you may not have known you needed to visit.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"The V Room in Long BeachCredit: Photo by Chris Nichols<\/p>\n

What sets the 2026 edition apart is the all-ladies cocktail competition<\/a> coming up on Monday, March 2 at Port City Tavern. Female mixologists currently working at bars in Long Beach are invited to create original cocktails with Mijenta tequila, a woman-owned and operated producer out of Jalisco, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Original entries can be submitted via email and must include the ingredient list, instructions, photos of the bartender and the drink and of course a genius name that transports the drinker to another dimension.<\/p>\n

In addition to a panel of lady judges, there will be a people\u2019s choice award, since visitors can sample the cocktails before voting. Submissions must be entered by February 23rd and the tasting takes place a week later.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Alter Ego bar at the Fairmont Breakers in Long BeachCredit: Photo by Chris Nichols<\/p>\n

Between now and then, hit up the food scene meet-up<\/a> at Halo in the gloriously restored Fairmont Breakers Hotel on Ocean Boulevard (did you know there\u2019s a tunnel under it<\/a>?) to a bartending talent show <\/a>at Que Sera. Midnight Oil is presenting a Historias y c\u00f3cteles celebrating Mexico, China, and the Lunar New Year<\/a> or you can learn how to craft a proper Irish Coffee<\/a> at the Auld Dubliner. Take a trip around the world without ever leaving Iowa by the Sea.<\/p>\n

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Long Beach Last Call
March 1 \u2013 March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n