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August 26, 2026

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Newsletter: August 26

August 26, 2026|by Erik Torkells

FOOD STUFF
••• The Larder by Field + Fort has opened in Carpinteria (above).
••• Erewhon’s Thousand Oaks store debuts this week.
••• Little Mountain honored.
••• Reports of Yona Redz’s resuscitation have been exaggerated.
••• A candy company purchased Caffe Luxxe.
••• Charcuterie specialist coming downtown.
••• What’s up with Silvergreens?
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: 635-square-foot cottage in El Caserio for $1.633 million; Charlie Puth’s five-acre Montecito lot; quirky floor plan near Miramar Beach; 1929 Spanish on the Riviera; Paul Greene spiffer-upper above San Roque; 1934 Upper East Tudor; midcentury chalet in Hope Ranch; and more. See what sold—and for how much.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• The De La Vina bridge replacement has another 16 months to go.
••• Bring miniature golf to your private event.
••• Observatory proposed at prominent estate.
••• Mesa fitness studio opened.
••• Patricia Chidlaw returns to Sullivan Goss.
••• Newly revised “Literary Santa Barbara.”
••• Waterfront parking lots now allow payment by phone.
••• Answer to “Where in Santa Barbara…?”
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Recent Comments

Thank you for providing an answer, I’ve walked by perplexed and dismayed. Makes my heart a bit brighter knowing this is being attended to! — Nicole Fujiwara

“the convenience of pay by phone”.. except you’ve got to download an app and pay a surcharge. And oddly enough, I’ve found that the Ledbetter… — JL

Hardly — Evan

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

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