Belmont Shores – Long Beach, CA

Posted: July 3, 2009 
Filed under: Culture, Food, Out on the Town, Travel
Tagged: Belmont Shores, CA, Happy Hour, Long Beach
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Long Beach has always been thought as a crappy or rough part of LA cast aside by the industrialization of the harbor that surrounds most of the city’s coast line but the city itself has a few diamond in the rough areas. Kate and I visited the Belmont Shore area that has a 1/2 mile stretch of shops along 2nd street with a view of the Pacific Ocean just blocks away. There are a multitude of shops to choose from with some great eateries that include a favorite of mine, La Creperie Cafe, which serves up amazing crepes. There are novelty candy shops to high end boutiques. On this Holiday weekend, Kate and I decided to walk from one end to the other and window shop through many stores along our journey.  We stopped in stores offering olive oils of any kind to the local sex shop and yet it didn’t seem out of place with diversity that Long Beach has.  For Happy Hour we went to Panama Joe’s for 2 for 1 drinks and had a great evening in which we drove back across the Vincent Thomas Bridge with the sun beginning to set.