JUST LISTED: ARE YOU READY TO PARTY, BUTTERFLY BEACH?
After an L.A.-style facelift, the sweet little house of yore on Channel Drive is all grown up and ready to get down. Check out that bar….
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The Municipal Tennis Center has reopened.
••• Intruder spending the night at vacant houses.
••• Ortega Park is getting a renovation.
••• Showers of Blessing lets homeless people shower in its trailer.
••• The grunion were running.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Lease signed on Endless Summer and Chuck’s spaces at the Harbor.
••• One outpost of the Nugget has reopened, with another to follow.
••• Los Alamos restaurants teaming up for deliveries here.
••• Local seafood update.
••• Fresno chili sauce (above), bake-at-home cookies, and happy hour takeout margaritas.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• New testing sites are an important step toward reopening.
••• Law firm offers $25 reimbursements to anyone placing local restaurant order.
••• Interviews with city administrator Paul Casey and Direct Relief’s Thomas Tighe.
••• Field + Fort’s new showroom space.
••• Viva Oliva moved from Coast Village Road.
••• Los Padres facilities now closed through at least May 15.
••• $39 million high school stadium nearly done.
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PRICE CUTS
The week’s top price reductions: Lavish space for outdoor entertaining in Cielito; serious price-chop for Las Alturas architectural exotica; three-story Mediterranean on the Lower Riviera; time capsule above San Roque; flat two-acre lot in Montecito.
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Recent Comments
If you're asking about the Huntington Hotel, the Big Four is indeed the only restaurant and it looked the same to me (but has probably… — Erik Torkells
It's next on the list. — Erik Torkells
I feel compelled to mention that the property owners here all say their gardners can do better with a broom- why AREN'T THEY OUT THERE… — Christine!
V e r y interesting- thanks. Is there more than one dining room? Is the iconic restaurant decor as before? — Greg
Have you tried Hotel Drisco in Pacific Heights? We love it! — Ann Capogrosso
ha the coffee movement was my neighborhood coffee shop when they first opened. they were always quite friendly, surprised to hear about any uppityness, but… — bailey debruynkops
Taco Bell on Milpas is closed. Fence around the property. I'm hearing, they're remodeling to upgrade the restaurant — Robert Goluck
Oh yes, let's add more super unaffordable boutiques that no one shops in and they eventually close hahahahahah. Your entitlement is showing. — CW
The Only in Santa Barbara store is at 633 State (a different location than this). — Erik Torkells
Bombay Station is great! It might be worth noting the glass of OJ could be in a super large glass, or more in the foreground,… — Michael