EVERYONE’S A CRITIC
As you’d expect, the new AMA Sushi restaurant at the Rosewood Miramar Beach resort is pinch-me pretty—but can the food and service keep pace? Read the review.
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FOOD NEWS
••• High-end sushi restaurant confirmed for the Funk Zone.
••• New restaurant coming to upper De La Vina Street.
••• Charter Oak adamantly denies that it’s opening in Montecito.
••• State Street restaurant raising money for a live-music venue.
••• The chef at Tyger Tyger’s new incarnation.
••• The food offerings at Margerum’s tasting room.
••• Costa at the Hotel Mar Monte is now serving breakfast.
••• Spiffy new Ventura wine shop.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Toro Canyon farmhouse for $11.35 million; the childhood home of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid; Campanil house with potential; the one with the peekaboo bathroom; charming 1910 house in the Upper East; boxy architecture in Bel Air Knolls; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted. — Dan Kolodziejski
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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
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