10 NEW RESTAURANTS ON THE HORIZON
Despite the devastation that pandemic restrictions have wrought on the restaurant industry, we have a bunch of new establishments to look forward to in coming months.
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HAMMER TIME!
Someone snagged 207 acres just west of the Ritz-Carlton Bacara—with a mile and a half of ocean frontage—for a song. Is it too early to call this the real estate bargain of the year?
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Biden moves toward banning new offshore drilling here.
••• Santa Barbara City Council votes to require union labor on some construction projects.
••• Montecito Journal argues that county vaccination regulations should be flouted.
••• SBPD likely to get body cameras soon.
••• Thefts of catalytic converters are on the rise.
••• Summerland tennis court renovation.
••• Artist Andrew Leonard’s fresh take on Santa Barbara locales (above).
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HOT PROPERTY
Everything continues to sell—high, low, turnkey, and not. Among the interesting properties to change hands this week: a Hedgerow charmer, the weirdest house on the Riviera, a split personality in Birnam Wood, a Hope Ranch fixer in its first time on the market in 70 years, and a cute 1936 house on a secret downtown street.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Congratulations to Kelsey for correctly identifying the location of this bike rack.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• First look at the Montecito water tank house.
••• A new online store selling local handmade goods.
••• The Well’s third house has opened.
••• The layout of the Mattei’s Tavern resort.
••• Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performer of the Year award.
••• Development likely for a corner lot downtown.
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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
That 5% would go to all employees proportionate to their hours I would presume compared to tips where more skilled staff take a higher percentage,… — Don
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