Chefs Jake Reimer and Jeremy Tummel have cooked up a multi-brand establishment opening June 11 at 113 W. De La Guerra Street, most recently home to The Green Table.
The main entity is The Chanticlair, named in homage to a Santa Barbara restaurant founded in 1948 on De La Guerra and catering to the film industry before relocating to Hollywood. According to the press release, “The Chanticlair will serve as a 28-seat culinary studio for talented guest chefs, winemakers, and artisans to play without restrain and collaborate on peak seasonal tasting menus and pairings on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Wednesdays will host events such as speakeasy supper club, wine dinners, and guest-chef pop-ups.” (Sundays may bring a “mad tea party Sunday brunch” at a later date.) “The menus will change daily, with some ingredients only found between our four walls, thanks to our incredible partnerships with our farmers.” There are three options: the Chefs Tables Experience [menu below], pescatarian, and plant-based, “all served up on hand-picked vintage wares in an eclectic Victorian-style dining room.” While walk-ins are allowed, reservations are recommended (and will be available beginning May 27).
Also on the premises: Alley Cat Oyster & Po Boy, “a hidden 60’s-style New Orleans–meets–Santa Barbara oyster bar that will feature fresh local oysters, uni parfaits, crudos, fresh shellfish, and the chefs’ take on New Orleans classics from time spent working there like housemade gumbo, sourdough po boys, gluten-free crab cakes, Pacific shrimp and hand-ground grits, to name a few.” The menu is below; as with The Chanticlair, reservations are recommended.
Lastly, The Chanticlair will offer private dining at Casa De La Paz, “a throwback to the late 19th century where the Wild West meets the garden.”
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