Organized by Long Beach Food & Beverage, a registered California 501(c)3 non-profit, the inaugural Long Beach Black Restaurant Week is eight day event devoted to celebrating African, African American and Caribbean fare in and around Long Beach. The event also seeks to highlight Black-owned culinary businesses as well as Black chefs and bartenders.
Long Beach Black Restaurant Week is a medium to bring everyone to the table, from all walks of life, to showcase the city’s diverse Black food scene.
Restaurants, Food Trucks, Caterers, Bakeries, Pop-ups and Retail Food Businesses are welcome to participate.
ABOUT Long Beach Black Restaurant Week
The inaugural Long Beach Black Restaurant Week, scheduled for January 23 - 30, 2022, is a week long celebration of Black-owned restaurants and food companies! The event is organized by Long Beach Food & Beverage, a California-based registered non-profit 501(c)3 dedicated to supporting Long Beach Restaurants, Chefs and Bartenders with events and initiatives throughout the year. Long Beach Black Restaurant Week will give Black-owned restaurants and chefs an opportunity to put their best dishes forward and be creative! Food trucks, caterers, pop-ups and cottage businesses will also get a chance to shine during this delicious event, so there is something for everyone !
Why Support Long Beach Black Restaurant Week?
Long Beach Black Restaurant Week will give you the opportunity to put your product, brand or service in front of the best Black-owned restaurants and food businesses in Long Beach, our creative Chefs and Bartenders and thousands of hungry foodies with disposable incomes that enjoy dining out. Uptown to Downtown, the East Village to Naples Island, Bixby Knolls to Belmont Shore, our partners will also be promoted to the city’s half million residents.
We empower Restaurants, Chefs and Bartenders, engage local foodies, and elevate brands. We also enable brand partners to access local culinary talent, produce dynamic videos and distribute across digital, social, authentic experiences. Our 25K+ food loving subscribers are made up primarily of urban, affluent, food obsessed consumers of all ages; plus we leverage our expanding social networks of a combined 10K+ followers.
Long Beach Black Restaurant Week welcomes those brands providing products and services to our valued Black-owned Restaurants, Chefs and Bartenders to apply to become a partner. Together we can help make your brand – and the Long Beach Black restaurant community – thrive!
Opportunities include being featured on our website, in eblasts and social media, promotional videos, as well as being recommended as a vetted resource to the participating Black-owned restaurants and food businesses. You will also have the opportunity to offer any special incentives, tastings, training, workshops and presentations to the Black-owned restaurants we work with. Some partnership levels offer the opportunity to take part in various community and media events leading up to and during Long Beach Black Restaurant Week, guaranteeing even more positive exposure!
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