A La Carte Column: South Bay Dining News for 13 March
Pier Plaza Gets An Upgrade… Playa Hermosa has opened in the former Killer Shrimp space, and it looks like a major improvement. The space has been brightened and made more stylish, and though they are serving a limited menu at the moment there are intriguing items like blood orange scallop crudo, po-boy sliders with green […]
Best produce: Grow
The story has by now been oft-told how in 2003 a little boy named Brendan Fisher, freshly arrived from the Central Valley to Manhattan Beach, wanted a boogie board. He made a deal with his parents, Barry and Kathy Fisher, that he’d raise half the money himself; his father was in the agricultural export […]
Best of the Beach 2017 winners: retail and services
Best of the Beach 2017 winners (click to see BOB write-ups). Dining and entertainment will be featured in Beach magazine’s April issue (vote here). The urge to recognize “the best” is universal, even though everyone knows “the best” to too subjective to be scientific. Best of awards are really gratitude ceremonies. They satisfy people’s need […]
Best Hotel: Shade Hotels
When Shade Hotel opened up in downtown Manhattan Beach a dozen years ago, it did more than provide the area the first truly boutique hotel for visitors. Shade was the anchor for the Metlox project, a development twenty years in the making, but also quickly became a central gathering point for entire community. Shade has […]
Best New Car Dealer: Manhattan Beach Toyota
Best New Car Dealer: Manhattan Beach Toyota
Best bike shop: Hermosa Cyclery
Much has changed in downtown Hermosa Beach since 1974. But Hermosa Cyclery, which was founded in that year just off the Strand by a cheerful man named Harold Schumaker, has happily endured. Schumaker passed away in 2002 and willed the shop to four of his most beloved employees, Steve Collins, Larry Burke, Ken Liebowitz […]
Best Motel: Sea Sprite
Best Motel: Sea Sprite
Best family law attorney: Karina Pozsar
Of all areas of law, none can match family law for bitterness and intensity of disagreement. Surrounded by this swirl of emotions, attorney Karina Pozsar has come to see the importance of remaining calm, even when her clients are not. “People panic. All of a sudden, people are freaking out. You need to tell […]
Best Antique Store: Stars Antique Market
There are only so many 1906 Edison Home Phonographs left in the world. And there must be fewer still whose pavilion — the elaborate horn-shaped end designed to amplify sound before the days of digital receivers — points directly at a glass-encased chrome statuette of the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales. Walk into Stars Antique Market in Hermosa […]
Best of the Beach 2017, Best Surf Shop Shaper: Tyler Hatzikian of Tyler Surfboards
Tyler Hatzikian of Tyler Surfboards is known worldwide for advancing traditional designs. Over the past three decades, his prized surfboards, which he shapes, colors, pinlines, glasses and finishes have become among the most respected in surf history. “I am very fortunate to have started building surfboards at a young age,” Hatzikian said. “I’m also fortunate […]
Best Chiropractor: Derek Levy, DC
Best Chiropractor: Derek Levy, DC
Best of the Beach 2017, Best Snowboard Shop: ET Surf
ET Surf also has the area’s largest selection of snowboards and snowboard gear. While competitors have come and gone since snowboardings introduction to popular culture in the 90s, ET Surf has plowed ahead like a grizzly bear in a blizzard. Their snowboard section rivals those closer to the mountains and their knowledgeable staff will get […]