Vibes Beach Cafe — Restaurant in Long Beach

Food was fine, nothing to write home about. Some overdone, some underdone, so on average it was OK. Despite the cafe being very close to the beach, it's not actually on it, there's no waterfront view, there's just a tiny walled backyard for outside seating. Now to the bad stuff: Staff (one particular guy) extremely not accommodating - we asked to sit outside (there was plenty of tables available) but because we were a party of 6, he declined to move a few tables together, said we can only use a long high table inside. Extremely uncomfortable high chairs. Wobbly, hard can't lean back... No military discount. At some point wife wasn't having it, asked to move to at least lower tables inside. Somehow they allowed that and moved a few tables together (still unclear why same couldn't be done with outside tables). The seat along the wall was a padded bench, but on the other side of the table it's those tiny wooden stumps. Super uncomfortable - especially given we've already been sitting for like 20min on those hard high chairs (the food took a very long time to come). I switched between the stump and a regular, normal chair with soft seat from a nearby table. Nope, the same gestapo dude came, forced to switch back, scolding me "there's a reason why these chairs are there". I'm guessing the reason is to humiliate customers. When they finally brought the food, it turned out that the pizza one of the little kids ordered was a huge, family size pizza that could probably feed half of our party. Cmon, guys, a little kid orders a huge pizza, don't you think it's appropriate to at least mention it's a...

Wow. What a little gem I found. I wanted to celebrate my friends birthday and she wanted brunch at someplace new. This was the location I came up with and it sure was a good one.

They don’t take reservations but you can call and put your name on the list. Good thinking but there were 5 of us. And thank goodness we carpooled. Parking is awful over here.

Once seated we ordered our drinks. Bummed to find out the frose machine was broken and they were out of champagne glasses for flights. So option 3 was an espresso martini. Well, it was morning and we drink espresso all day so….. this was the bomb. I highly recommend ordering this.

We ordered red velvet pancakes for the table. They were beautiful when they came out but let me tell you, 5 girls destroyed that stack like our lives depended on it. Definitely need to order these, whether you decide to share or not.

If you’ve read my other reviews, you will see I am somewhat of a creature of habit. Chilaquiles are my go to. I ordered mine with red sauce and a scrambled egg. It had some good heat to it but definitely needed 2 eggs, like most places serve it.

The cheeseburger looked good and the breakfast burrito was fat.

Service was a little slow. My Mouth was on fire and we waited 20 minutes for water refills. We also had to take our bill to the counter. Not sure if that’s normal or if she just got busy.

I absolutely be coming back here. We all enjoyed...

I celebrated my 40th birthday with a group of girlfriends today at Vibes and we had a wonderful time!

Initially we made plans to have afternoon tea at a nearby tea house but they cancelled our reservation at last second due to the rain so my girlfriends and I were frantically trying to find a brunch place nearby to celebrate my birthday. We called Vibes and they said they could seat us in the patio area in the back.

When we arrived we were able to get parking right away and we waited until our table was ready. It had rained in the morning so the patio area was a little wet and they weren't planning to open up the patio area at all. However, the owner and our waiter Rob were both super accommodating and sat us in the patio and we basically had the whole area to ourselves. Super cute area. The floor was a little wet but they came and cleaned the floor as best as they could. We were just glad to have a decent place to gather.

The food was great! Our favorite were the French Toast (the best we've ever had!) and The Blue Bowl. We loved the Avocado Smash Tartine too!

Thank you for making my birthday celebration a very delicious and...