ENTREPRENEURS: BETTER BURRITO
Like most of us, David Medina has ordered more pickup and delivery in the last few months than ever before—usually with disappointing results. So for Better Burrito, his new company specializing in breakfast burritos, he designed the experience around delivery. Read all about it.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Sur la Table’s Santa Barbara store is closing.
••• Montecito estate auction has a whiff of desperation.
••• Mate Gallery’s new online sale section.
••• American Express offering $5 credits when you patronize local merchants.
••• A new look for the former Just Folk building in Summerland.
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WEATHER FORECAST
“This pretty much spells it out for the next several days,” says Jack Martin of Action Roofing. “It’s going to be hot—80s coastal, 90s in the valleys and at the lake, and other areas 100s.” Email [email protected] to receive daily updates.
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JUST LISTED
The week’s noteworthy new listings: A house so sweet it could break your heart; 1890 cottage downtown; cute fixer above Coast Village Road; boxy contemporary in the Lower Riviera; Gobernador Canyon farm with approved plans.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Secret Bao has expanded its food service at Handlebar. (Above: okonomiyaki-style tortilla española.)
••• Tyger Tyger is reopening for weekend pop-up dinners.
••• Another brewpub said to be coming to lower State Street.
••• New Westside pizza joint.
••• Mercado el Rey has opened.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• County says no to private helistop.
••• Direct flights to Sonoma County for two months.
••• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History reopens to the public.
••• C Magazine’s Summerland pop-up.
••• Goleta abandons sales tax increase.
••• How decommissioning oil platforms might affect fishing.
••• New leopard at the zoo.
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Recent Comments
Hallelujah! The return of that Southbound on-ramp is long overdue — Tammy
You've done a great thing for the hapless men of Santa Barbara with this series. Stopping by half of these stores. — Andy
The post office renaming will cost roughly $500,000 paid for by the USPS internal funds from stamps and fees. — Derek
Thank you, Erik, for reminding your readers to support local businesses; it is one of the critical ways to help our communities thrive. (I laughed… — Pat
I agree about the skimpy wine pour. However, we loved the shared entrees (chicken and salmon) with their special rice. Yes there were leftovers but… — ElizabethW
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Geo , you know absolutely nothing about the restaurant business. — Roy
What if, and bear with me here because this is complicated, restaurants just paid their staff normally and charged prices that reflected those expenses, i.e.… — Rich
Little Mountain just isn’t organized. Everyone is very nice and the atmosphere stylish, but there is something wrong with it. The food is weird, portions… — Joan
I intensely to test Sur charges for the cost of doing business. Will they give back 5% profits to the patrons when they do extremely… — Geo