Domenico's Italian Restaurant
Best Italian Restaurant in Long Beach · CA
Belmont Shore's pizza booth since 1954
Domenico's has fed Long Beach's Belmont Shore since 1954, one of the first restaurants in California to serve pizza and still a red-sauce neighborhood mainstay. Thin-crust pizzas, baked pastas, and garlic knots come to worn booths on Second Street, largely unchanged for seventy years.
Long Beach's oldest restaurant, Domenico's is the kind of place regulars have been ordering the same pizza at since childhood — a genuine Belmont Shore institution.
Customers said it first.
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Why this business cleared the bar.
This record was published by The Centurion Awards from the public record. Selection follows the published criteria; Domenico's Italian Restaurant met them on that evidence. The business can claim the listing or ask us to remove it.
- ✓Years in operation. Operating in Long Beach since 1954 — 71 years of continuous business.
- ✓Sustained online presence. An established local institution with a consistent public footprint — listings, coverage, and word of mouth in Long Beach.
- ✓Established customer track record. A deep public track record: Long Beach has kept Domenico's Italian Restaurant busy for 71 years.
- ✓Liked by customers and the community. Genuinely beloved by Long Beach regulars and visitors alike — a bona fide community favorite.
- ✓Recognition in the local community. Named best Italian restaurant in Long Beach for 2025 for seventy years of thin-crust pizza and red booths on Second Street.
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The details, verified.
- Legal / trading name
- Domenico's Italian Restaurant
- Category
- Restaurant
- Founded
- 1954, Long Beach, CA
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
- Centurion Award
- Best Italian Restaurant in Long Beach — 2025
- Record last verified
- July 2026
Frequently asked questions.
What is Domenico's Italian Restaurant?
Long Beach's oldest full-service restaurant, serving its salad-topped pizza in Belmont Shore since 1954.
Is Domenico's Italian Restaurant award-winning?
Yes — Domenico's Italian Restaurant is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Italian Restaurant in Long Beach, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best Italian restaurant in Long Beach for 2025 for seventy years of thin-crust pizza and red booths on Second Street.
Where is Domenico's Italian Restaurant?
Domenico's Italian Restaurant is in Long Beach, CA.
Every award, on the record.
Each Centurion Award is its own dated annual record, and staying current means clearing the bar again each new year. The verification above is from the latest published award. Open a year for that year’s citation.
2025 Centurion Award
Best Italian Restaurant in Long Beach Long Beach, CA · Awarded under the 2025 evaluation View the 2025 award →Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.
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