Plus: A new online store selling local handmade goods; The Well’s third house has opened; the layout of the Mattei’s Tavern resort; Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performer of the Year award; development likely for a corner lot downtown.
Despite the devastation that pandemic restrictions have wrought on the restaurant industry, we have a bunch of new establishments to look forward to in coming months.
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Could sellers be optimistic the vaccines will allow them to move somewhere else? And/or are they afraid the boom might end soon? Either way, there’s a lot of new inventory to check out….
More food news: Next steps for the Beachside Bar-Cafe space; Cajé’s State Street café has reopened; Merci’s standout banana pudding; the recipe for Bettina’s meatballs; glimmers of life at the old Wildwood Kitchen; SLO wine shop for sale.
Plus: The zoo’s oldest resident has died; an easy way to help small businesses around here; survey about county recreation planning; Southwest airfares; aquatic rehab facility in the works at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital; a big new basement in Montecito; Elings Park tennis office remodel; new renderings of four-story building proposed for De La Vina Street.
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Notable closings also include a 1905 estate on East Valley Road, a secretive transaction on Ashley Road, a teardown on 11 acres in the hills above Summerland, and an architectural fever dream.
More food news: The Miramar Beach Bar is open for takeout drinks; new locally produced food publication is about to launch; profile of Triple Chip delivery bakery; Gipsy Hill Bakery ordering is now easier.
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