The Bungalow Kitchen has gone from a cozy restaurant to chill hangout lounge and will officially reopen on Saturday, May 13 with a DJ set by a Grammy award-winning musician.
DJ Pee .Wee, better known as soul-funk musician Anderson .Paak, will perform an all-vinyl DJ late night set to mark the rebirth of the venue, which will now be known as The Bungalow Long Beach.
“We’re going to be a nice, happening lounge,” said Brent Bolthouse, owner of the Bungalow.
“The space we created is a love letter to Belmont Shore, to Long Beach. We want to be an extension of people’s living rooms when they want to celebrate life,” he added.
The Bungalow first opened in 2021 at 2nd & PCH as a restaurant designed to look like a house with five separate rooms in a 10,000-square-foot space, modeled after a Craftsman-style bungalow home.
It closed in March to undergo renovations to transform it from a sit-down restaurant to a lounge with four bars that offer small bites rather than full means and it will be open late night with DJs spinning tunes.
Now the elements of a restaurant, like the tables and chairs as well as the seasonally-inspired California cuisine menu, are gone and Bolthouse has added lounge furniture throughout the indoor space and the 3,000-square foot patio.
Bolthouse said the plan was always to create a bar and lounge in Long Beach, but due to the pandemic those plans were altered.
“It was never meant to be a restaurant. We only pivoted to a restaurant as a pure result of COVID because bars were decimated in California,” Bolthouse said. “Originally I anticipated that that community in Long Beach really needed a great lounge bar and that was the original vision, so we decided to make the choice to go back to the original vision.”
“And it feels really good,” he added.
Now that people can more safely party again, The Bungalow Long Beach is kicking off with a bang by having .Paak, who performed a DJ set at the Coachella Valley Music and…
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