Long Beach- Restaurants

[Not Afraid]

I never been to Joe Josts! (Of course, bars are not Lisa friendly for the most part)

As for Restaurants:

2nd Street in Belmont Shore has a variety of non-chain really excellent restaurants and is our most frequent haunt.

• La Creperie is fantastic food and atmosphere
• Next door is Zen Sushi
  Next to that is Bonos (Owned by Sonny and Cher's daughter)
• Down the street is Open Sesame - a Lebanese restaurant that we end up at probably once a week and home of the "Heroin Chicken" (You eat it and, an hour later you crave more).
• There are 2 more new Lebanese restaurants on the street as well.
• Super Mex is always good for fantastic Mexican food (although they've now expanded quite a bit and would be considered a chain)
• La Strada is decent Italian
• Biggs has decent Tapas but I had bad service there when they first opened and haven'tbeen back
• George's Greek is WONDERFUL (there's one on Pine and 5th downtown as well)
  

Everything on 2nd street is a short walk, so just park anywhere and walk the street. It's a fun atmosphere.

Downtown has more chains, but you might try:

• Madison for steak (fancy and expensive)
• L'Opera (fancy and expensive)
• Geoge's Greek (wonderful)
• Sevilla for Tapas
• There's also your run of the mill stuff like PF Changs, Lone Star, Islands, CPK etc.

Call when you're in town.