FOOD STUFF
••• A new tasting room on Coast Village Road.
••• Expanded hours at Little Mountain.
••• Update on Linden Square’s rooftop bar.
••• Comparing coffee prices at Santa Barbara cafés.
••• El Pollo Loco is opening in Goleta.
••• Tour Spain with the chef of Dom’s Taverna.
••• Profiles of Manifattura and The Copper Restaurant.
••• New tasting room in Los Alamos.
••• Frozen lasagna worth the trip (above).
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Renowned interior designer’s home for $10.16 million; contemporary aerie of concrete and glass; 1980s architecture near Toro Canyon; Alta Mesa spec reno; spiffer-upper above San Roque in just 11 days; Bel Air Knolls four-bedroom; Mesa fixer; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Thieves are said to be hiding surveillance equipment outside houses (above).
••• Salon Providence has soft-opened at The Post.
••• Scenery Florals leased a space in the Funk Zone.
••• Lord Huron to play the Santa Barbara Bowl.
••• Intermittent closures on Highway 154.
••• Downtown salon closing.
••• Palma Colectiva’s new events studio.
••• “Mythical landscapes and fanciful botanicals” at Sullivan Goss.
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