FOOD NEWS
••• The New Palihouse hotel’s restaurant and bar.
••• Two Low Pigeon alumni have launched Coastal Coffee Collective (above).
••• Bell’s made a prestigious list of best American restaurants.
••• Chef announced for La Paloma Cafe.
••• Locally made bone broth.
••• Root 246 has closed.
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WELCOME WAGON
Inside Tina Frey’s lovely new Montecito shop: The San Francisco–based designer casts functional objects in resin, creating organic shapes in colors across the spectrum.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Pushback for the new police headquarters (above).
••• County Board of Supervisors wants churches to be more open.
••• Water treatment plant to get Tesla batteries.
••• Progress on making parking kiosks automated.
••• Debris nets extended.
••• Olive Mill roundabout moves forward.
••• Sonic boom this Saturday.
••• Time to stop obsessing over cleaning surfaces.
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PRICE CUTS
The week’s noteworthy price adjustments include a former monastery price-chopped by $3 million, a pair of beachfront properties, misbegotten architecture on the Riviera, a Birnam Wood house with two personalities, and a tile lover’s dream.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A way to keep houseguests out of your house.
••• Renovated midcentury available for rent (above).
••• The Montecito section of the Highway 101 widening project was denied funding for now.
••• New grading regulations.
••• MarBorg’s Christmas gift to you.
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