![]() ![]() And there is no place that sells more champagne (the waiting customers have found the quickest way to pass the time is consuming an alcoholic beverage or two). There isn't much doubt that Schooner Or Later has become the busiest breakfast/lunch outlet in Southern California - its myriad servings are extraordinary - as the usual weekend wait time for dozens of customers exceeds an hour and a half. "Obviously, that was as nice a comment you can receive," says Mr. Fieri later was quoted as saying his favorite restaurant in California is Schooner Or Later. I mean, one of his countless friends, the Food Channel's Emmy Award winning Guy Fieri, featured Schooner Or Later in a January, 2009 episode on his show - and Mr. You must understand Denny Lund does have a good head on his shoulders - an entrepreneurial one with a keen visionary knack that has resulted in his long engaging in an upscale lifestyle. "I've lived a champagne life on a beer income," he says. Lund himself scoffs at such quips, although he does concede he has lived life at a breakneck speed even when he didn't have the sources to subsidize his genteel tastes Lund that he has a good head on his shoulders - a different one each night - and that if he were a sheik with a harem that he still would have a girl on the side.īut Mr. The ad space immediately above donated by Indeed, Denny Lund - a 1967 Millikan High graduate who later earned a BA from Long Beach State - can often be found outdoors at Schooner during the day in a straw hat sipping madras and indoors at night at Tantalum surrounded by loyalists sipping Don Julio Tequila Reposado and also on occasion retiring for sleep at sunrise. Lund always seems to be surrounded by friends - and no doubt lives a frenetic daily existence that belies his chronological arc of 72 years. When he isn't engaging in such joyful activities, he can be found seated at a table overseeing proceedings at two of his celebrated LB restaurants - during the day at the wildly popular Schooner Or Later on Marina Drive in front of the Alamitos Bay Marina and at night at the architecturally idyllic Tantalum in the Marina Pacifica Mall with its dazzling view of Alamitos Bay. Denny Lund, a Long Beach native who spends one weekend a month in Puerto Vallarta visiting his girlfriend and speeding around the waterways in his 32-foot Donzi powerboat and who spends two or three weekends a month at his home in Indian Wells where he plays golf with his pals and spends the rest of his time residing at his condominium at Marina Pacifica in LB where he often can be seen tooling around Alamitos Bay in his 28-foot Chris Craft powerboat with his pals and lady companions.ĭenny Lund sipping madras as he holds court at Schooner Or Laterĭenny Lund having lunch with girlfriend, Martha Rodriguez, on the beach in Puerto Vallarta We're not non-profit so it's not tax deductible but $49.95 (less than an annual dollar a week) helps keep us online. Support independent news in LB similar to the way people support NPR and PBS stations. isn't part of an out of town corporate cluster and no one its ownership, editorial or publishing decisionmaking has been part of the governing board of any City government body or other entity on whose policies we report. ![]() ![]() Who would? No one in 's ownership, reporting or editorial decision-making has ties to development interests, advocacy groups or other special interests or is seeking or receiving benefits of City development-related decisions or holds a City Hall appointive position or has contributed sums to political campaigns for Long Beach incumbents or challengers. ![]()
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