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September 23, 2026

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Newsletter: September 23

September 23, 2026|by Erik Torkells

FOOD STUFF
••• Restaurant Roy to close after 30 years.
••• Little Mountain earned a three-star New York Times rave (photo by Kort Havens).
••• Kyle’s Kitchen opens in Goleta this week.
••• Raising Cane’s opening date.
••• Pascucci Restaurant finally closed.
••• Isla Vista’s Sweet Hustle (née Cookie Plug) closed.
••• The Los Olivos Wine Festival is coming up.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: 3.4-acre Montecito compound for $16.9 million; the foxy Mesa contemporary with an outbuilding at the cliff’s edge; Mediterranean with weird entrance on Viola Lane; Montecito Shores two-bedroom; Riviera vacant lot; and more. See what sold—and for how much.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• Padaro Lane’s trees might just get spared.
••• The new owner of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum building.
••• Romero Canyon Trail and Franklin Trail have finally reopened.
••• Tours of Direct Relief’s warehouse.
••• Downtown parking lot shifting to self-pay.
••• Bellosguardo is trying something new.
••• Kinetic art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (above, “Universe” by Manjari Sharma).
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There have been so many press releases about the closing that it reminded me of a furniture store going out of business for years as… — Spank13

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