I live in Long Beach & have become a regular customer at a pub near downtown called the Auld Dubliner.....yeah, kind of a hokey name & it's right on the edge of one of those horrible new retail super complexes, but a friend of mine coaxed me into checking it out.
What a find! All the food there is fantastic & amazingly consistant visit to visit. And......they had my rasher bacon!! They have a list of "Boxty" dishes on the menu & one of them is a Rasher & Cheddar Boxty. A boxty is a large potato pancake folded over whatever goodies you want to stuff inside..... really simple & really tasty!
Their appetizers are delicious & wide ranging. I ordered some shrimp & crab cakes with a spicy mayo sauce & was delighted to find no breading or filler in 'em.....mostly just shrimp & crabmeat. The salads are excellent as well. The have a huge iceberg wedge drowning in bleu cheese that they serve with a steak knife. Seared beef, lamb, wilted spinach with apples & bacon are some of the other salads that'll do fine as a "super-appetizer" or main course. Check their site AULD DUBLINER for the whole menu.
Off the menu, you'll have to order their homemade BROWN BREAD ICE CREAM for dessert. It's incredible!
You'll want to get there in the afternoon or early evening as the kitchen closes at 10:00. Around 10:30 or so, the Dubliner sneakily transforms itself into more of a club than a pub. It's right across Pine Avenue from the LB convention center & can get pretty packed late nights. Sometimes it's fun to throw back a few ales & check out the also consistantly great live music. It's always a good show too with a thick mix of locals & all the out of town suits rolling through.....as well as the occasional "service" women who tend to the comfort of lonely conventioneers. I call it the "Gents & Rents Show." There's plenty of great food & a good variety of good times at the Auld Dubliner.
I'll be covering more cool spots to eat in Long Beach soon.
--WILLY
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