They day after you've bungled your own Fourth of July barbecue, there will be hope for redemption: Beachwood BBQ has announced its second restaurant will be open for business in downtown Long Beach on Tuesday, July 5.
But this, as we've reported before, is not just a carbon copy of the beloved Seal Beach 'cue joint; it's an upgrade. They've enlisted Julian Shrago, a brewer known for his IPAs, and given him 90 barrels of fermentation space to work with. There will be eight year-round house-crafted brews to supplement the 24 rotating varieties featured on its signature HopCam.
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The original Seal Beach store will, of course, be supplied with the grog the Long Beach one produces; and in turn, the Long Beach restaurant will serve the same barbecue the Seal Beach location has been serving for years.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.