Taste wine-beer-kitchen — Restaurant in Long Beach

A small restaurant in the Belmont Heights neighborhood that seats around 34 people, with a long communal table in the center, this is the place you would take a friend for conversation, special event and eventually catch up over the beer and wine they have here.

Speaking of which, if you come during happy hour 4-6pm, select wines (1 red, 1 white) are $5 and beers are $2 off. Some of the food selections are cheaper (It's a small menu and it's not online).

And if you do like the food and beverage selection, like other restaurants, they will have a beer or wine pairing dinner. Like Phamtom Carriage in the past or the Talley Winery in August.

The food here for the most part is tapa style, small shareable plates. We tried:

Albacore cerviche with the crispy won ton chips-Fresh dish, wished it was a little spicier or saltier, or more acidity. I think I'm used to more in your face flavor.

Indian Fry Bread-4 crispy pieces of fry bread with honey drizzle over them. The baba ganosh and the garlic dipping sauce was nice add on to this dish.

Vietnamese meatballs-7 juicy meatballs with dipping sauce and organic farm greens from Lot59 which is recommended to eat in one bite. Yup, you guessed it, it tasted like Vietnamese pho or Banh Mi with those similar flavor profiles.

Pan seared Sea Bass with Ratatouille, Summer Garde Herbs, Green Olive-Celery Relish. Love this dish! Super slight crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside with fresh greens.

Berry crumble with pepper ice cream-This dish is not for everyone. All the dishes here have a good balance of salty and sweet here. The pepper ice cream is overpowering and the berry crumble was, well a bit dry and it elevated the ice cream 3 notches in the pepperyness.

The menu changes here changes constantly as well as the beer and wine choices. So what you see here might be swapped out when you enter the restaurant. However, popular menu items does get brought back periodically.

Also got to try a glass of their tempranillo. Great selection for $8. I do have to say the wine choices here are quite wonderful. The beer selection is about 8 taps. Got to try SinTax from Mother Earth and it was on Nitro as well as the Alpha Galactic from Beachwood. Gotta support local, ya know? They do have a cider too here when I was here and it was called Moonlight Meadery. It was yeasty and tasted like a Berliner instead of a cider which I liked!

Finally, I like to say the staff here is superb. Anthony and Garrett knows the menu super well and takes great care of you.

The bathroom here is beyond the red door and is super big and clean.

4 1/2 for the food and 5 star for the service. Parking is free on the streets. Great place to hang out with time friends. Oh, please note that I was invited here as a guest to try these food and my opinions reflect that of a regular customer. I will have to...

I enjoyed this place! The food was pretty good, especially for the price. The service was extremely nice, although our waitress could have come by to offer us water more often. The space is somewhat tight; I would estimate that the restaurant accommodates about 40-50 customers max. Of course parking is a hassle in this part of Long Beach, but there are some spots to be found after a bit of circling.

The burger was very tasty and had some topping that seems like a mixture of caramelized onions and a semi sweet fruit or something. It really enhanced the flavor of the juicy patty! The carbonara flatbread was also quite good, but I wish it had more chunks of...

Dinner Nov 28,2018 I am a HUGE fish n Chips fan. I saw that on Wednesday ,Taste does Fish n chips. In LBC I enjoy fish n chips from Pike/ Roe/Saint &2nd, BUT NOW there is a new # 1. Taste on Broadway. Why: fish fresher , firmer , more flavorful. Batter lighter almost tempura like but one can taste the mild Beer. Hardly any residual oil Superb Sauce,they call it Garlic Aoli-Jalapeño Deee-lish Fries good too and portions plentiful Heavenly Wife had Fried Chicken sandwich that was great also. Taste has a well thought out Beer and wine list that matched well with the...