Expand<\/a><\/p>\nWhen the hot weather means pumpkin spice hot drinks are no longer a priority, cold drinks have become the seasons go-to.<\/p>\n
Here are a few of my favorite haunts in October:<\/p>\n
Dead Man\u2019s Cove at Port City Tavern on Anaheim Street, near Ximeno Avenue, is a Halloween pop\u2011up bar.<\/p>\n
The pop-up features a full transformation with fog, lanterns, shipwreck prop, and a themed cocktail menu built around rum, tiki\u2011inspired drinks, smoky presentations and \u201ccursed\u201d variations of its regular craft cocktails.<\/p>\n
Pete\u2019s Spookeasy at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach is the hotel\u2019s Halloween\u2011season transformation of Pete\u2019s Sunset Grille Hyatt. Pete\u2019s Spookeasy seems to have the best Halloween-themed food around. The annual Halloween event started as an employee recognition for staffers \u2014 and morphed into a monthlong food, drink and entertainment event.<\/p>\n
The Haunting at The Ordinarie on The Promenade in downtown is a dark cocktail pop-up from the same team behind our Christmas Miracle experience. There is an all-new lineup of spooky cocktails, collectible mugs, vintage Halloween oddities and plenty of eerie surprises throughout the bar. The owner and his family decorate every corner themselves, and this year its bigger, stranger and spookier than ever.<\/p>\n
Bamboo Club transforms into The Tremble Club for Halloween. Located on Anaheim Street, it has two of the popular cocktails. First is the Perfect Specimen, made with Brugal 1888 Rum, juices and a dark rum float. It is served bubbling with a creepy baby doll head garnish. Second is the Soylent Green, an international cocktail that should include a rideshare home. It has tequila, cacha\u00e7a, absinthe and alcoholic coconut boba.<\/p>\n
Roxanne\u2019s on Warlow will host a Halloween Holiday Cocktail\/Mocktail making class on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
2nd & PCH shopping center<\/p>\n
Brodard Vietnamese Cuisine officially opened Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
It is best known for its signature nem n\u01b0\u1edbng cu\u1ed1n \u2014 an absolutely amazing spring roll featuring a salted grilled pork patty wrapped in rice paper, with fresh herbs and vegetables. I remember picking up a trayful once from the Fountain Valley location. My car broke down on the way home and I ended up tipping the AAA driver in spring rolls \u2014 the driver was thrilled and got me back on the road in record time.<\/p>\n
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Pura Vida Miami, in the 2nd & PCH shopping center, has a health steak-and-eggs dish, served with avocados. (Photo by Jo Murray, Grunion Gazette\/SCNG)<\/p>\n
Another new spot at the 2nd & PCH shopping center is Pura Vida Miami, which I didn\u2019t think I was hip enough to dine at. The new all\u2011day caf\u00e9 faces Marina Drive, and initially, it always seemed to have diners that looked chic in yoga pants. Frankly, I thought most people just ordered their highly rated smoothies on their way to a massage or spa treatment in the center.<\/p>\n
I was wrong.<\/p>\n
Last week, I went in for breakfast and General Manager Richlee Harley suggested I try the steak and eggs. Expecting a classic diner breakfast, I was pleasantly surprised with hard boiled eggs, sliced lean beef and avocado slices artistically arranged on a plate.<\/p>\n
It also has a pastry case with a large selection of sinful treats \u2014 try the gluten free cookies.<\/p>\n
VisitLB honored<\/p>\n
Meet Long Beach has been voted the best convention and visitors bureau) in the far West for a record 10th consecutive time, taking home the gold in the industry\u2019s Stella Awards.<\/p>\n
The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center also took home the gold, winning for the ninth time in its history.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo other CVB has won a Stella so many times, let alone taken home the award 10 years in a row,\u201d Samantha Mehlinger, vice president of communications and marketing, wrote in an email.<\/p>\n
If you want to check out what \u201cout of towners\u201d see when researching Long Beach as a destination, go to visitlongbeach.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheldrake Coffee Roasting celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sept. 30, with owner Mike Sheldrake as representatives from government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,8132,3739,131,133,132,137,3738],"class_list":["post-489354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-grunion-business-beat","tag-grunion-news","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-the-grunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489354","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=489354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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