FOOD STUFF
••• Shalhoob’s is leaving the Public Market.
••• The new, more reasonably priced menu at Augie’s.
••• Opening forecast for Oat Bakery’s Montecito outpost.
••• City council OKs parklet fees.
••• “An exciting celebration of insect cuisine.”
••• The Natural Coast Wine Festival returns next month.
••• Seattle bakery pop-up.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Lower Riviera spec reno for more than a million over ask; Bonnymede two-bedroom for $4.5 million; new construction on the Mesa for $4.1 million; Mission Canyon spec reno; incomplete project way up Gibraltar Road; Campanil vacant lot; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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SHOP TO IT
The Brown Design Group has restored what was originally the Second Baptist Church—a Gothic Revival building from 1925, more recently the Church of Skatan—and there is no handsomer shop in town.
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