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Where to eat in Long Beach, CA
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A few places to eat in Long Beach
- Pride And Pancakes Breakfast and Brunch · under 0.1 miles
245 Pine Ave, Long Beach - Next-Kitchen Mediterranean Mediterranean · under 0.1 miles
245 Pine Ave Unit 130, Long Beach - Gu Ramen Taps & Tapas Long Beach Japanese · under 0.1 miles
108 W 3rd St, Long Beach - 5th Ave Bagelry Bagel Shop · 0.1 miles
247 Pine Ave, Long Beach - Panama International Restaurant (PTY) Panamanian · 0.1 miles
211 Pine Ave, Long Beach
The closest few by distance from central Long Beach, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout in Long Beach.
The food scene in Long Beach
Open listings put 502 places to eat within 2 miles of central Long Beach, 174 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: Mexican (51), pizza (32) and bakery (21). 25 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Long Beach is vegan, Cajun & Creole and Thai — types that are listed here at 4 to 5 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Mexican 51 Pizza 32 Bakery 21 Thai 20 Burgers 16 American 15 Cambodian 14 Seafood 13 Coffee 13 Donuts 12
The food in Long Beach
Long Beach has the largest Cambodian population outside Cambodia, and Cambodia Town along Anaheim Street is the only officially designated one in the United States. Khmer food — num banh chok, amok, kuy teav, prahok — is available here at a depth found nowhere else in the country.
The city is also a working port with a long Mexican-American history, so the food is considerably less beach-resort than the coastline suggests.
What to eat in Long Beach
- Cambodian food — Amok, kuy teav noodle soup, num banh chok, and grilled meats with tuk trey. The reason to eat here.
- Mexican, in the north and west — Long-established taquerias and mariscos rather than tourist Mexican.
- Filipino food — A substantial community, with lechon and kamayan spreads.
- Seafood, from the port — Straightforward and unfussy rather than resort-priced.
- Pacific Island cooking — Samoan and Tongan communities and the food that comes with them.
Where to look
- Cambodia Town, Anaheim Street — The densest Khmer food district in the US.
- Retro Row and downtown — Independent kitchens and cafés.
Neighbourhoods and regional dishes, not restaurant recommendations. We have not eaten in Long Beach, and a page claiming the best taco in a city it has never visited is worth nothing. Savor Scout reads menus and reviews when you search, and shows why it picked what it picked.
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noodles, soup, Mexican food, seafood, Thai food — what separates a good one from an average one, and what to order.
Long Beach has a population of about 469,428. Enough choice to argue about for twenty minutes, which is usually what happens. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Long Beach, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Long Beach?
Long Beach sits in Los Angeles County, where the Census counts 8,227 full-service restaurants, 9,336 limited-service places, 3,530 cafés and snack bars and 723 bars — 21,816 places to eat or drink in all. Long Beach makes up about 5% of the county's population.
That is 22 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Counter service edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
Those county figures also cover Los Angeles, Glendale, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, Palmdale, Pomona, Torrance, Pasadena and 38 more, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Long Beach.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Long Beach
- Carson, CA — about 7 miles away
- Lakewood, CA — about 7 miles away
- Paramount, CA — about 8 miles away
- Compton, CA — about 9 miles away
- Bellflower, CA — about 9 miles away
- Cypress, CA — about 10 miles away
Campuses in and near Long Beach
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- California State University-Long Beach
- Los Angeles Harbor College
- Long Beach City College
- California State University-Dominguez Hills
- Compton College
- Cerritos College
- Cypress College
- Golden West College
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
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