FOOD STUFF
••• Longtime Santa Barbara chef has taken over the Polo Club restaurant (above).
••• The new restaurant at the Leta hotel in Goleta.
••• Handlebar Coffee Roasters, Hook & Press, and Tamar are taking a break.
••• New coffee bar in Paseo Nuevo.
••• Owner of Burbank’s Smoke House rumored to be working on something here.
••• Profile of Vega Vineyard & Farm.
••• The National Heirloom Exposition is coming to Ventura.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: New downtown penthouse for $3.45 million; 40-acre ocean-view lot flipped for a loss; Hope Ranch fixer/teardown; Samarkand three-bedroom with appealing outdoor space; Gibraltar Road two-bedroom listed since 2017; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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GET OUT OF TOWN
The beguiling city of Istanbul is at the nexus of east and west, ancient and modern—and yet it also feels very far away.
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You've done a great thing for the hapless men of Santa Barbara with this series. Stopping by half of these stores. — Andy
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