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21026th 26thSt. StNW NW• •Long LongBeach, Beach,WA WA• •1.866.994.4879 1.866.994.4879• •BreakersLongBeach.com BreakersLongBeach.com 210 14 Coastfo
Deluxe Getaway Package The Breakers • One Night Stay in
Oceanfront Suite • • • • • •
Private Beach Access Indoor Pool and Spa All Rooms Have a Balcony or Patio 24 Acres of Beachfront Parkland Pet Friendly Complimentary Wireless Internet
The Depot Restaurant • $60 Dinner Voucher • Contemporary Cuisine in a Historic Setting • Local Seafood • Vegetarian Entrees • Landfood Entrees • Special Wine Dinners • Homemade Daily Dessert Specials Restrictions apply. Excludes holidays. 18% gratuity added to restaurant ticket.
LONG BEACH PENINSULA
events AUGUST 12-13 Blues and Seafood 14 Jazz and Oysters 15-21 International Kite Festival SEPTEMBER 3-5 Chinook Art Festival 9 Slow Drag at the Port
Ocean View Dining At Its Best
The Lightship Restaurant & Columbia Bar Diners at the Lighthouse Restaurant enjoy the many moods of the Pacific Ocean with unparalleled ocean and beach views from each seat. All booths and tables are carefully placed to afford views. Dawn over the ocean accompanies breakfast or diners can take a break from beach fun for lunch. Happy Hour and evening dinner service offer the perfect setting in which to relax and watch the sun set over the western sky. Located on the top floor of Adrift Hotel (formerly the Edgewater Inn), the Lightship boasts the only 180-degree view of the beach and ocean from a Long Beach Peninsula restaurant. COASTFood recently spoke with owner Karl Hintz. CF: It seems there are a lot of great changes happening! The hotel has been renamed and is in the process of a remodel. Karl: And we couldn’t be any happier with
the way it’s coming together. The hotel has always been one of the best places around to be close to the ocean and take in a spectacular view and we’re very excited about the remodel. CF: How does this affect the Lightship Restaurant and Columbia Bar? Karl : Because of the upbeat direction the hotel is taking, we’ll have more creative, fusion cuisine-style entrée dinner specials. We’ve also livened up the lounge with a fun cocktail menu of ‘Ritas, ‘Tinis, Tropicals, and Sparklers. UB
Lightship Restaurant & Columbia Bar 409 Sid Snyder Drive W Long Beach, WA 360.642.3252 LongBeachLightship.com
10-11 Rod Run to the End of the World OCTOBER 1-Nov 15 Wild Mushroom Celebration 7-10 Peninsula Arts Association Fall Show 8-9 Cranberrian Fair 8-9 One Sky, One World Kite Celebration 14-16 Water Music XXVII 22-23 Graveyard of the Pacific Events For more information, visit www.funbeach. com or call 800.451.2542. Coastfood
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Passion & Joy
Move from East to West Coast
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dding their extensive fine dining experience in eastern cities are a team of new chefs at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub. Joining Chef Richard Windrich are Chefs Shawn Dube’ and Amber DiGirolamo, who bring culinary degrees from The Culinary Institute of America and The Art Institute of New York to add to Chef Windrich’s international training and experience. Dube’ and DiGirolamo are as passionate about working with fresh, locallysourced foods as are Windrich and the restaurant’s owners, David Campiche and Laurie Anderson. The duo rely on
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Shelburne Restaurant & Pub
their rigorous training and their passion for the culinary arts to bring delicious new offerings to the Fall season’s breakfast, lunch, happy hour and dinner. “Fall brings so many opportunities for creativity,” notes Anderson. “We are able to forage a large variety of wild mushrooms. Cranberries are being harvested locally, as are many herbs and vegetables. This bounty really gets the creative juices flowing. We look forward to the coming season with our Chef Team with a sense of adventure.”
Restaurant and Pub offers a Wild Mushroom and Beer dinner on October 28. In keeping with their commitment to working with regional artisans, the Shelburne will feature the beers of Seattle’s award-winning Pike Brewing Company at this event. UB
Shelburne Pub & Restaurant 4415 Pacific Way Seaview, WA 360.642.4150 ShelburneInn.com
As a participant in the annual Wild Mushroom Celebration, the Shelburne Coastfood
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Fresh Seafood Castaway's Seafood Grille
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reaming of a vacation? Like to kick back and watch tourists stroll by? Looking for an escape from the ordinary? Want to eat local fresh seafood? You are welcome to do all that and escape the ordinary at Castaway's Seafood Grille in the heart of downtown Long Beach. Stepping through the door, one is greeted with the beach vacation at its best. The environment is casual, colorful and fun. Whether you want to sit by a picture window and watch the street scene, reserve the Mermaid Room for your group, follow a sporting event on television during Happy Hour or simply want to eat great food, Castaways is waiting for you.
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With its cheery décor, Castaway's prides itself on providing all the essential items a seafood grille should be known for. In addition to winning praise from Seattle Post Intelligencer for ‘Best Clam Chowder on the Strip,’ Castaway's chefs turn out Oyster Stew rich in fresh, local Willapa Bay oysters, prawn and seafood combos, calamari and more, as well as offering up a variety of land-lover menu options. Monday through Friday. the full-service bar has a new 3-6 PM Happy Hour menu with $1.99-$3.99 appetizers and $1-off drinks for you to enjoy while keeping an eye on the street. Then, in three steps, move over to the restaurant with its
bright décor and the whole family can order from both the regular and the extensive kids menu. If you are on the north end of the Long Beach Peninsula, be sure to stop in to Luigi’s Italian Grille & Oyster Bar and check out the ocean view from the lounge – another restaurant owned by Chris Summerer and Russell Maize. UB
Castaway's Seafood Grille 208 Pacific Ave S, Long Beach, WA 360.642.4745 CastawaysSeafoodGrille.com
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OPEN DAILY 11-5 • May-September Closed Wed & Thurs • October - April 303 SW Sid Snyder Dr • Long Beach, WA
360-642-4020 WorldKiteMuseum.com
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he Long Beach Peninsula’s remarkable culinary diversity draws both ingredients and inspiration from nature. Ranging from traditional clam chowder and fish ‘n chips to delicate crepes layered with locally-harvested wild mushrooms, the array of dishes created by area chefs captures the spirit of this fingerling island off the Washington coast. Jutting out into bodies of both salt and fresh water - with pristine Willapa Bay providing a home for world-famous oysters and the Pacific Ocean teeming with succulent salmon, sturgeon, tuna and more - the Peninsula hosts a dynamic restaurant scene. On land, the Peninsula’s 28-miles burst with abundant forest mushrooms, fiddlehead ferns, u-pick organic blueberries and acres of cranberry bogs. The 18 varieties of edible wild
mushrooms are the reason for the annual Wild Mushroom Celebration when foragers, inns and restaurant chefs feature this bounty in everything from pastas to frittatas, with winemakers coming from around the northwest to see their wines paired with these local dishes. For nearly 90 years, locals have also honored the harvest of the tart, ruby red cranberry with the Cranberrian Fair. This traditional celebration includes the opportunity to take a bus tour of working bogs to watch the berries being raised up from their beds. Their luscious red color inspires not only dramatic photographs but exquisite culinary treatments. Year-round, the area’s chefs enjoy the opportunity to create innovative dishes and diners savor the resulting delights.
Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Bureau 3914 Pacific Hwy, Seaview, WA 800.451.2542 FunBeach.com Coastfood
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Great Food & Good Times Dooger’s Seafood & Grill
For the past sixteen years, the staff at Dooger’s Seafood & Grill, have been serving up “simply the finest seafood to be found,” says local owner, Barry Craft. Offering casual family dining, Barry is proud of the fact that, even in the height of summer, visitors to the peninsula can get a great meal without having to wait and then can continue to enjoy all of the sights and activities the area offers. Known for awarding-winning clam chowder, the restaurant’s impressive menu also offers a great variety of fresh fish as well as pasta dishes, salads and several choices of steak. Their sandwich menu - available all day and evening –includes the aptly-named ‘Carnwich,’ created by Dooger’s son, Carnegie, in which chicken strips are nestled inside a traditional grilled cheese sandwich. While Dooger’s opens at 11 each day for lunch, Barry knows that a healthy walk on the beach or an hour spent flying kites or building sand castles can make a customer quite hungry. So dinner is also available all day for folks whose appetites have been stirred by brisk ocean breezes. With seafood as a specialty, Dooger’s offers everything from a Steak & Lobster plate to the Admiral’s Platter, which groans under the weight of crab legs, razor clams, salmon, scallops, prawns, halibut and calamari. The variety of preparations includes Cajun, deep fried, stir fried, sautéed and poached. “We want our diners to enjoy their seafood just the way they like it,” Barry says with a smile. UB
Dooger’s Seafood & Grill 900 Pacific Ave S, Long Beach, WA 360.642.4224
Bountiful Breakfasts & More Benson’s by the Beach “Our French Toast portions are gy-normous,” boasts Eric Benson, co-owner with his wife, Rhonda, of Benson’s by the Beach, a mainstay for breakfast and lunch in downtown Long Beach. While his batter for this delectable entrée is a secret, that doesn’t seem to bother diners, who clamor for more. The main street restaurant also offers a wide variety of breakfast options, including Eggs Benedict and a seafood omelet loaded with crab, halibut, shrimp and cheese. Pan fried oysters are on the menu, as is the Hangtown Fry, which features fresh oysters. For those who prefer turf to surf, Chicken Fried Steak is hand breaded and topped with country gravy. And, for the convenience of vacationers, both breakfast and lunch are served all day. Rhonda and Eric love living by the ocean and have carried a seafood theme throughout the restaurant, which is populated with photos, paintings, candle holders and other decorations featuring whales, seahorses, clams and other sea creatures. Lunch offerings include tempura-dipped Halibut and Fries, hand-breaded Razor Clams and Fries and a generous Captains Plate as well as a selection of salads, burgers and sandwiches. “We really want our customers to find what they’re looking for in a good meal,” says Rhonda. “The variety we offer is designed to appeal to every taste.” Benson’s glass-enclosed atrium edges a pocket park with its own small pond and provides diners with a chance to enjoy watching people strolling the nearby street. The view is pleasant throughout the year, offering the spectacle of the changing seasons. UB
Benson’s by the Beach 504 Pacific Avenue S, Long Beach, WA 360.642.3300
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