Tim Grobaty: Neighbors wary of new Taco Beach near (shhhh) Cal State Long Beach
BEACH WATCH: Watchdog residents in the non-sexy-sounding LACAN (Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods) have been keeping a keen eye on the opening of a controversial (to LACAN) Taco Beach, scheduled to open in early April at the site of the former Best Place Cafe at 2099 Bellflower Blvd.
Taco Beach will be youthing up the neighborhood, which isn't exactly what LACAN hankers for. Opposition to
Taco Beach, in particular its beer, wine and spirits permit, resulted in a mess of conditions that must be met by the restaurant chain that includes locations on Downtown's
Pine Avenue and at
Long Beach Airport.
The most unique is a one-year condition prohibiting aiming advertising at students at nearby Cal State Long Beach. LACANites are already skittish enough about the prospect of rowdy drinkers, raucous karaoke singers, boisterous sports fans, parking problems, late-night hilarity and whatever else a popular restaurant/bar brings with it. It'd be cool with LACAN if Cal State Long Beach students never stumble upon the place, even though the campus is so close to the restaurant that we could walk from one to the other without whining about it too much.
Already,
Taco Beach monitors in the area have found what they consider a breach in the conditions, with a resident finding a
Taco Beach employment listing on Craigslist. In the advertisement for kitchen staff and other help,
Taco Beach's location is given as "CSULB."
According to LACAN's blog, residents attempted to reach
Taco Beach's owner, Kevan Vance and, failing that, a letter was sent to 4th District City Councilman Patrick O'Donnell, and within an hour the location of
Taco Beach on Craigslist was changed to "
Los Altos Shopping Center."
(LACAN Editor note: Please see our response to Mr. Grobaty @
that includes the You Tube video below):
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