New Los Altos restaurant: Love Full Native Kitchen

 Love Full Native Kitchen opens in Los Altos Village

 Love Full Native Kitchen has opened in the Los Altos North shopping center.  It is the third location for the popular California Caribbean inspired restaurant that features a menu with many vegan options as well as dessert and breakfast.  

The Los Altos Village store located in the former Wok a Roll next to Trader Joe’s had a soft opening on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

The Los Angeles locations opened under the name Grilled Fraiche boast 4.7 stars on yelp. Fraiche is French for fresh. The Hyde Park and South Central locations will be rebranding to the new name Love Full Native Kitchen. The new website for the new name is currently being developed.

The current Long Beach soft opening menu features Vegan Veggie Tacos along with salmon, shrimp, and chicken.  The Believe Stew (which the restaurant was offering samples) is a jerk-flavored black and kidney bean-based stew in a coconut milk base.  The menu includes a Build-a-bowl option and burritos and quesadilla’s build options that include vegan sauces.

Breakfast offerings include a “Shrimp and Grits” as well as a Cajun-seasoned omelet, an egg and cheese wonton wrap and a breakfast bowl. 

Desserts include bread pudding, baked or ala mode, and anytime plantains.  The current menu has two juice offerings: Unsopable- pineapple, sour sop, lemon, honey and ginger; and Mango Manifesto-mango,  passion fruit, lemon, honey and ginger.

Then menu boasts “organic ingredients, range free proteins and eco-friendly containers”. 

For more information see

WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Grilled Fraiche Instagram account

Supernaw requests Long Beach ordinance to target street takeovers

Supernaw requests Long Beach ordinance to target street takeovers 

July 9, 2021, East Long Beach street take-over at Bellflower and Stearns

Long Beach Fourth District Councilman Daryl Supernaw has agenized a council item for July 20, 2021 meeting to “prepare an ordinance to enhance penalties for participating in or being a spectator at a street takeover”.      

The request to the City Manager and City Attorney came just days after a street takeover at the corner of  Bellflower and  Stearns on the night of Friday, July 9^th.  That takeover saw cars doing donuts in the middle of the intersection and racing up and down Bellflower, including on the wrong side of the road.   The takeover included dozens of people standing in the street videotaping the takeover.

As the police arrived, the participating cars raced south on Bellflower, some without headlights, as some turned into Los Altos Village neighborhood streets to avoid the police.

Close to the freeway, both the Los Altos Gateway Shopping Center north of the 405 and the Los Altos Shopping Center North have been taken over by social media-promoted car events.

The street takeovers promoted on social media have had deadly consequences for both drivers and bystanders. Many of the bystanders come with the cars to video the takeovers for social media. 

Regular street takeovers in the Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar  took an inevitable  dangerous turn last month when a car predicating in the street takeover almost hit a pedestrian before slamming into a nearby business and heavily damaging it.

This year the City of Anaheim passed an ordinance aimed at giving the police more power to deal with the takeovers, including charging spectators.  Both city’s responses were to incidents where people were injured in street takeovers in those cities.  Other California cities enacting similar ordinances.

The street takeover problem grew nationwide during the pandemic. In May, the state of Georgia passed a law to deal with the growing problem.  The new Georgia law creates a new crime category called reckless stunt driving, requires mandatory jail time, and increases fines and penalties on participating, organizing, or promoting the takeovers.

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Supernaw’s July 20^th Agenda Item

East Long Beach  street take over with  video

East Long Beach street take over

East Long Beach  street take over

For approximately twenty minutes on Friday, July 9, 2021 dozens of cars took over the intersection of Stearns and Bellflower Blvd.

The squealing tires and smoke from the burning rubber along with the roar of souped-up  mufflers on the cars racing up and down Bellflower started just after 10:30 pm and lasted for over 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes before the Long Beach Police Department arrived,  some of the cars raced on the wrong side of the road down Bellflower Blvd.

When the police arrived driving south toward the crowd from the direction of the 405 freeway, the cars began racing south down Bellflower, many without their headlights on.  A few cut into the Los Altos Village residential streets in what appeared to be an attempt to evade any police. 

The LBPD did not pursuer the cars but instead stayed at the intersection of Steans and Bellflower to clear it out.  The dark rubber marks in the intersection are still visible.

The street takeovers promoted on social media have had deadly consequences for both drivers and bystanders. Many of the bystanders come with the cars to video the takeovers for social media. 

Regular street takeovers in the Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar took an inevitable  dangerous turn last month when a car predicating in the street takeover almost hit a pedestrian before slamming into a near-by business and heavily damaging it.

This year the City of Anaheim passed an ordinance aimed at giving the police more power to deal with the takeovers, including charging spectators.  Both city’s responses were to incidents where people were injured in street takeovers in those cities.  Other California cities enacting similar ordinances.

The street takeover problem grew nationwide during the pandemic. In May, the state of Georgia passed a law to deal with the growing problem.  The new Georgia law creates a new crime category called reckless stunt driving, requires mandatory jail time and increases fines and penalties on participating, organizing or promoting the takeovers.

UPDATE 7/14/21:  Councilman Supernaw has proposed Long Beach develop an ordinance to address street racing. For more information CLICK ON: 

Supernaw requests Long Beach ordinance to target street takeovers