Heritage

Heritage was created by siblings Lauren and Chef Philip Pretty to show what hyper-local, regenerative fine dining can be. Nestled in a century-old craftsman house in Long Beach’s historic Rose Park neighborhood, Heritage is more than a restaurant. It connects the city to the land through a nine-step tasting menu shaped entirely by the season, with produce supplied by their own Heritage Farm just one mile away. The restaurant holds a Michelin Star and Michelin Green Star, earned in both 2023 and 2024, along with Green and Blue certifications from the City of Long Beach.

From its opening in 2020, Heritage has operated as a zero-waste kitchen. The restaurant uses its own driver to collect produce directly from local farmers’ markets in reusable crates, ensuring both freshness and a minimal environmental footprint. Any kitchen remnants are repurposed for staff meals or composted at Heritage Farm, where that compost feeds the soil that grows next season’s ingredients — a full closed loop. All beer and wine on the menu is sourced from California producers to support the local industry.

Heritage’s sourcing is built on transparency, ethical relationships, and a commitment to reducing the carbon footprint of every ingredient.

Heritage shows what regenerative fine dining can look like at its most committed. The Pretty siblings have built a restaurant where every decision — from the farm down the street to the composted kitchen scraps — reflects a genuine respect for the land. It is a meaningful example of environmental leadership in Southern California and a model for what urban fine dining can achieve when sustainability is treated as a foundation, not an afterthought.