Hello again Oceancidians and holiday travelers!  Longboard Lee here reporting on another fun week on 67th street.  I don’t know about you, but I’m saying “welcome September!”  
    First let me mention an unfortunate incident from last month (I have been a bit absent on my blog lately, sorry Brenda.)  Longboard Café lost our chef, and dear friend Duffy Taylor.  You are missed along with your talent in the kitchen.  Safe home friend.  
    Owner Rick Vach and Duffy received a present in the mail this week.  Remember a few months ago when jets and stunt planes were flying around the city, or as we call it, OC airshow?  We were lucky enough to have some of the talented pilots of the world famous Blue Angels join us at Longboard.  They sent autographed framed pictures of them flying over Pearl Harbor.  They are awesome, and look great hanging in the dining room!  Thank you guys….we appreciate you!  Our friend Janet Sisson from Heavy Seas brewery stopped by to say hi.  Maybe we will have you guys on tap again.  Crew 10 of the OCPB were in for our world famous happy hour the other day.  Keep up the good work, but most importantly keep having fun!
    Despite the recent loss of our chef, the kitchen has been putting out amazing specials.  Last week was a Burley Oak root beer bbq sauce on a pork ribeye over spinach carrots red cabbage in a pork broth.  This dish is amazing and will be making it to the menu soon!  This weekend we will be doing a poke appetizer.  Poke is a Hawaiian tuna tartar dish over fried wontons with a wasabi crema.  Our featured entrée will be a blackened swordfish topped with avocado butter with a roasted corn and black bean salsa over wild rice.   I’m personally looking forward to this weekend’s food!
    Make sure you stop by and check out our live music this week.  This week we are featuring Friday 9/4 Time Police, Sunday 9/6 Joe Mama w/Paul Cullen from Bad Company.  Yes, you read that right… Bad Company… classic band from England... Maybe you heard their song “Bad Company.”  
    Check us out on trip advisor and yelp and at LBCafe.net!  Come down and join me for a margarita, but until then….ciao ciao!