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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Recent Comments
Starting to feel forced…. — Paul
carpinteria is cool — jayne
That is one shiny copper dome on that observatory! 😎 — Sven
Why would Field + Fort open The Larder in Carpinteria as opposed to Santa Barbara? Seems like the audience for something like this in SB… — Paul
yeah, because carnivores will not eat any dish that is plant-based or worse, labeled vegan. — Ken
Ahh, ok. — HM
maybe they should devote 1-3% of their menu space to the vegan population — Bettye Jones