Best Date Night Restaurants in Long Beach 2026
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The date-night pick in Long Beach for 2026 is the Sky Room, about $120–$200 a head. Editorial runners-up: Boathouse on the Bay, Chez Bacchus, 555 East, Bo-Beau.
A hundred and twenty dollars buys harbor views from a 1938 penthouse, freshly restored. Twenty-five buys mezze on a patio that runs till last call. Long Beach feeds a date across a wide price band, much of it on the water. Seven rooms earn the evening here, and here is what each one runs.
Seven Long Beach Tables for Date Night
Open since 1938, reopened in late 2024 atop the restored Fairmont Breakers at 210 East Ocean Boulevard. Chef Maxwell Pfeiffer plates modern seafood and supper-club classics under Art Deco ceilings, views running from the harbor to Downtown LA. About $120 to $200 a head. The most romantic room in the city, closed Mondays. Book the window.
A waterfront room at 190 North Marina Drive, with premium steaks, fresh oysters and sushi against open water. The bay at your shoulder makes the table; a couple lands $55 to $95 a head before wine. Long Beach's quietest waterfront date, the one locals keep to themselves. Book a window two-top for the sunset over the marina.
Danny Le cooks a carte-blanche tasting that changes with the season at 743 East 4th Street, one of the few white-cloth rooms downtown, with wines from sommelier John Hansen. The menu runs $75 or $140 a head. Bring a date who likes a slow, deliberate evening and no decisions. Closed Monday and Tuesday, so plan midweek or later.
The city's steakhouse since 1984, at 555 East Ocean Boulevard: USDA Prime cuts, live piano, a 600-bottle list. A bone-in cut and a bottle run a couple $100 to $180 before the rest of the night. Clubby, dim, built for an occasion. The date for a couple who want a proper steak and a martini, not small plates.
A tufted-booth French bistro under a craft-beer roof garden at 144 Pine Avenue. The kitchen is more serious than the rooftop suggests, the mussels and the flatbreads worth the trip; $45 to $80 a head. Start with a beer on the roof at sunset, then drop to the bistro for dinner. A two-part date in one address.
Levantine cooking with California sun at 285 East 3rd Street: fresh-baked pita, a long mezze list, a front patio that buzzes from noon to last call. About $25 to $45 a head, the easiest bill on the list. The date for a couple who would rather graze and linger than work through three courses. Order the whole spread to share.
Michelin-recommended Thai at 3832 East Anaheim Street, wide-ranging and deeply flavoured, the table the neighbourhood keeps returning to. About $30 to $60 a head. Not the dressiest date on the list, but the best food-per-dollar, and a warm, easy room for an early-relationship dinner. Order broadly and share across the table.
How to Book, and What It Costs
The Sky Room wants two to three weeks for a weekend and is closed Mondays. Chez Bacchus closes Monday and Tuesday. 555 East and Boathouse on the Bay open weekend tables about a week out. Bo-Beau, Ammatoli and Chiang Rai usually take a weeknight date on shorter notice.
The band runs from $25 a head at Ammatoli to $200 at the Sky Room. Boathouse, Bo-Beau and Chiang Rai sit in the comfortable middle; Chez Bacchus is a flat $75 or $140 tasting. Tell the room it is a date and most will set you somewhere quiet.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Sky Room is the editorial pick: open since 1938 and reopened atop the Fairmont Breakers in late 2024 under chef Maxwell Pfeiffer, with harbor-to-Downtown-LA views and supper-club glamour. Dinner runs about $120 to $200 a head. For a waterfront table at a gentler number, Boathouse on the Bay sits right on the marina.
Plan on $120 to $200 a head at the Sky Room and $100 to $180 at 555 East, the two splurge rooms. Boathouse on the Bay lands $55 to $95 with oysters, Bo-Beau $45 to $80, Chiang Rai $30 to $60. Chez Bacchus runs a $75 or $140 tasting. Ammatoli is the easiest bill, $25 to $45 for mezze.
The Sky Room is the most romantic room in the city: an Art Deco penthouse above the Fairmont Breakers with views from the harbor to Downtown LA and a supper-club ambiance restored in 2024. Boathouse on the Bay runs a close second for its open-water setting on the marina. Both are built for a slow, candlelit evening.
Book the Sky Room two to three weeks out for a weekend; it is the hardest table in town and closed Mondays. Chez Bacchus, 555 East and Boathouse on the Bay open weekend bookings about a week ahead. Chez Bacchus is closed Monday and Tuesday. Bo-Beau, Ammatoli and Chiang Rai usually seat a weeknight date on shorter notice.
Smart-casual clears every room here. A jacket or a dress reads correctly at the Sky Room and 555 East, the two dressier rooms. Chez Bacchus is a white-cloth space worth dressing for. Boathouse, Bo-Beau, Ammatoli and Chiang Rai run relaxed, beach-city informal. Long Beach is easy-going, so a collared shirt is plenty almost everywhere.