Two Long Beach businesses closed over vermin infestations this week remained on the city’s restaurant closure list Friday morning, with no reopening date posted for either location.
Watch Me Sports Bar on East Pacific Coast Highway was closed Sept. 1. Johnny Rebs on Long Beach Boulevard followed on Sept. 2. In both cases, the City of Long Beach restaurant closure records list the reason as “Vermin Infestation & Harborage.”
What the records don’t say is what kind of vermin inspectors found. The public entries don’t identify rats, mice, cockroaches or another specific pest, so there isn’t enough information to make that distinction.
What the City Records Show
Johnny Rebs
Address: 4663 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach, CA
Closed: September 2, 2026
Official reason: Vermin Infestation & Harborage
Reopening date: Not listed as of September 4
Johnny Rebs was closed Wednesday. The city’s public record provides the closure date and reason but doesn’t include detailed inspection findings.
As of Friday morning, no reopening date was listed.
Watch Me Sports Bar
Address: 6527 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, CA
Closed: September 1, 2026
Official reason: Vermin Infestation & Harborage
Reopening date: Not listed as of September 4
Watch Me Sports Bar was closed Tuesday for the same stated reason.
Again, the public record identifies the issue only as vermin infestation and harborage. It doesn’t identify the pest involved, and no reopening date was listed when PestMarket checked Friday morning.
What Happens After a Vermin Closure?
A health department closure doesn’t necessarily mean a business will remain closed for long.
Long Beach says a food facility remains closed until the condition responsible for the closure has been corrected and an Environmental Health Specialist verifies the correction. The city’s closure records show that some facilities are cleared to reopen within a relatively short period.
That’s why the reopening date matters. For Johnny Rebs and Watch Me Sports Bar, that date had not yet appeared in the city’s records as of Friday morning.
It’s also worth being careful with the word “vermin.” The city hasn’t publicly identified the specific pest involved in either closure. Calling these rat or cockroach infestations without additional documentation would go beyond the available evidence.
Pest-Related Closures Are Being Tracked Across California
These Long Beach closures come as PestMarket continues monitoring official health records for pest-related food facility closures around the state.
For the latest confirmed cases, reopening updates and other county records, see PestMarket’s California Restaurant Pest Closures This Week: Sept. 1–7, 2026.
PestMarket will update this story if Long Beach officials post reopening dates or additional information about either closure.
Last updated: September 4, 2026