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
Great 🥝 🇳🇿 travel reportage Eric ! Love all your details as well as extensive photos ! — Mark
So wonderful to have this new shop there in the El Paseo. Hand crafted ceramics, plants both real and dried, art, books, candles, decorative glassware,… — Miguel
Sad to see McCormick House close up shop to sell off. I've taken a few wonderful art classes there over the years. It is such… — JD
It is absurd. — Laurie
Exactly! I have no words for anyone that could even think of approving such a design and In Buellton of all places. Ed St George… — Monica
Alessia Patisserie & Café, 134 E Canon Perdido Street, Entry mat — Tal
PS- the generated photo previously used was more hidious though — Christine!
If you read the city paperwork- they describe the current Pea Soup design as “art deco”. I don’t think what they think is our deco… — Christine!
Come again? — J
Actually- the Art Deco style they speak of.... is what the current building is described as. — Christine!