FOOD STUFF
••• Slice House by Tony Gemignani is looking to open here (above).
••• Giovanni’s Pizza is said to be taking over the Good Plow space in Carpinteria.
••• First impressions of Santa Barbara Fish Market’s Goleta restaurant.
••• Update on Shalhoob’s Noleta outpost.
••• The name of Yona Redz’s seafood spinoff.
••• Santa Ynez Valley Restaurant Weeks.
••• Rebranding of the Santa Barbara Airport café.
••• Hope that Peacock Family Farms will return to the farmers’ market.
••• Azul profile.
••• Lompoc’s Eye on I has reopened.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Montecito ranch house for $7.8 million; 1956 house on Oak Grove Drive; Rincon off-market; five-bedroom east of Hidden Valley; Goleta’s Bluffs gated community; the Virginia Road one with the below-grade lower level; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Quality Inn slated to become “permanent affordable housing.”
••• New “luxury piercing studio” in the Funk Zone.
••• What’s in store for 801 State Street.
••• Hope Ranch palm tree replacement.
••• Victoria Market painting.
••• Scott Johnson art exhibit at the Architectural Foundation.
••• Exploring the bike path linking Santa Claus Lane and Carpinteria Avenue.
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