Business Beat: Optics, vintage clothing, tamale day

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Second Street Optique has moved 2 blocks to 4924 E. Second St. Owner/Optician Marc Schain reports the caller determination (between Luna and The Belmont Athletic Club, wherever Herman’s Shoes was previously) is person to “the halfway of the Shore.”

Schain, who has been successful concern 10 years, brings his keen consciousness of benignant that helium honed arsenic the make-up creator for “Good Morning Germany,” and the years helium spent moving with cosmetics guru Bobbi Brown.

The store sells hand-crafted, high-end eyewear by assignment only. Most of the eyewear is imported from Europe and the postulation has distinctive designs that Schain personally sources. The caller shop’s backmost partition features a display, “inspired by abstract creator Piet Mondrian,” including celebrated radical wearing iconic eyewear.

“We supply clients one-on one-appointments wherever the full store is yours,” Schain explained arsenic his lawsuit work attack successful an onsite interview.

Upcycled vintage

Inti Vintage has opened successful Belmont Shore astatine 4804 E. Second St. The family-run concern has its archetypal store successful Temecula. It sells vintage and upcycled goods from the 1930s to Y2K. The inventory includes retro furnishings and clothing.

“Inti Vintage is simply a spot for existent idiosyncratic expression,” said Christian Zambrana, 1 of the owners and a Long Beach resident. “A melting cookware for ideas and identities. A afloat immersive abstraction of coexistence successful find and experimentation. Where the essence of the past dances with the ideas of the contiguous composing the obsession of tomorrow.”

Hot Tamales

The archetypal ever Long Beach International Tamales Festival 2021, a collaborative effort of Long Beach Living and  Roxanne’s Bar & Grill, volition beryllium from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5.

This holiday-inspired just volition Scottish Rite Events Center, 855 Elm Ave.

The lawsuit volition person tamales from antithetic regions of Latin America, Latin-inspired dishes, drinks, tequila tastings, unrecorded music, creation workshops for kids, performances, “best homemade tamales” contest, and shopping

Tamale-serving restaurants, nutrient trucks, caterers, bakeries, pop-ups, cottage businesses and retail nutrient businesses are invited to enactment in the International Tamale Festival tin visit www.LBHomeLiving.com to registry on-line.

Rare wine

The Bungalow Kitchen astatine 2ND & PCH has a caller vino enactment curated by certified sommelier Ryan Kraemer.

The caller vino enactment dubbed ‘Sommelier Secrets’ includes uncommon and exclusive wines from astir the globe including a Thymiopoulos “Young Vines” Xinomavro from Naoussa, Greece and a Heinrich “Leithaberg” Blaufrankisch from the aged mountainous vineyards successful Burgenland Austria.

Taco Day

National Taco Day is Monday, Oct. 4, and Rubio’s astatine 4702 E. Second St. successful Belmont Shore is offering a escaped a la carte taco with immoderate purchase. The coupon tin beryllium recovered astatine  rubios.com/national-taco-day-offer oregon erstwhile ordering online, usage coupon codification TACO.

More candy

Consumer spending connected Halloween is expected to scope an all-time precocious of $10.14 billion, up from $8.05 cardinal successful 2020, according to the National Retail Federation’s yearly survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. The survey besides noted that 79% of Americans accidental they program to capable a Halloween candy vessel this season.