Business Beat: Fall and Oktoberfest on horizon

Long Beach

Now that summertime successful over, it is clip for pumpkin-flavored foods, Oktoberfest, Halloween, and wintertime Sno-balls.

Right connected schedule, Costco has its Christmas decorations retired and different retailers and restaurants are pursuing suit.

The Local Spot astatine 6200 E. Pacific Coast Hwy astatine Loynes started offering pumpkin spice pancakes past weekend.  Spirit Halloween is opening a pop-up successful the Los Altos area. Located successful the erstwhile Rite Aid tract astatine 5545 Stearns St., the pop-up seasonal concatenation volition beryllium selling Halloween supplies and costumes.

Oom Pa Pah

The Social List, 2105 E. Fourth St., successful Retro Row has launched its Oktoberfest promotion. An Oktoberfest Beer Club rank for $15 includes a rank card, Oktoberfest stein, and archetypal brew free. Customers volition person $2 disconnected immoderate draught brew erstwhile they bring their peculiar stein along.

The rank paper has 30 slots representing each of the beers available. Those who implicit each 30 slots connected the paper by Sunday, Oct. 31, volition gain a personalized stein and introduction to the exclusive coin club. The coin holder perks see Happy Hour brew each twelvemonth agelong and escaped entree to the peculiar whiskey night.

Oktoberfest festivities person besides started astatine Rasselbock — Kitchen & Beer Garden astatine 4020 Atlantic Ave. successful Bixby Knolls. It volition see accepted German unrecorded music, nutrient and brew specials, Oktoberfest decorations and unit dressed successful Lederhosen and Dirndl.

Shaved ice

Fluffy’s Sno-Balls makes New Orleans-style shaved crystal and precocious opened astatine 1208 Long Beach Blvd. The Mardi Gras ambiance is designed to marque customers consciousness they are connected Bourbon Street. More than 50 choices of accepted and antithetic flavors specified arsenic strawberry, watermelon and pineapple are featured.

Fluffy’s Sno-Balls not lone has a brick-and-mortar store beforehand successful Long Beach, but besides caters nationalist and backstage events, parties, festivals and thoroughfare fairs. For much information: www.fluffyssnoballs.com.

Bank centennial

This month, Farmers & Merchants Bank is celebrating 100 years of serving East Long Beach. The bank’s archetypal subdivision bureau opened successful September 1921 successful the bosom of Zaferia. The downtown slope was established successful 1907.

According to slope officials, the archetypal slope gathering stood for a twelve years earlier it was destroyed by the 1933 earthquake. The existent gathering has been remodeled implicit the years, but the mid-century modern station and beam plan remains.

More Pizza

The oldest edifice successful Long Beach Domenico’s Italian Restaurant has been successful Belmont Shore astatine 5339 E. Second St. since 1954. Friday nights aft shot games, galore locals had the contented of getting a crushed pepperoni pizza with an bid of crockery with that celebrated location dressing.

Now foodies successful the OC tin bask a portion of Italy with the caller Domenico’s connected the Lake, connected Lake Mission Viejo astatine 27782 Vista Del Lago. The caller edifice conscionable opened and connected the paper you’ll find Domenico’s favorites and immoderate caller items similar Braised Short Rib, an Italian Ribeye with Gremolata and Wild Shrimp Scampi.