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January 19, 2022

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Newsletter: January 19

January 19, 2022|by Erik Torkells

COMING ATTRACTIONS
Here are the 28 restaurants expected to open this year. Plus: Exciting things for 2023 and beyond.

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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales include a funky Montecito compound for over ask; two houses way up the hill; the “Hope Ranch barn”; Equestrian Avenue three-bedroom; landscape designer Eric Nagelmann’s garden cottage; and more. See what sold—and for how much.

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FOOD STUFF
••• A restaurant called “We Want the Funk” is opening in the Funk Zone.
••• Trader Joe’s is considering a second Goleta store.
••• The 5% fee that the Cruisery tacks onto bills.
••• Embermill has closed.
••• Wingman Rodeo closed one location but opened inside another establishment.
••• Goleta Coffee Company is closing.
••• Goodland Dining appears to be closed.
••• More on the forthcoming Goodland BBQ.
••• Opening date for Peasants Deli in Solvang.
••• Middle Eastern food at a Santa Ynez pool hall.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Letter Perfect is being sold after 38 years.
••• Solar panels proposed for somewhere above the Santa Barbara Bowl.
••• The design of standardized plaques for historic landmarks and structures of merit.
••• The Hotel Indigo changed hands.
••• Opening date for “children’s fitness center” My Gym.
••• A show of landscapes at Mollusk.
••• The answer to last week’s “Where in Santa Barbara…?”
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