FOOD STUFF
••• The Miramar resort’s sushi bar could be ready this summer.
••• First look at the menus for Anchor Rose at the harbor and Validation Ale in the Funk Zone.
••• Bigger space and menu at Broad Street Oyster Co.
••• Rare Society got pushed back.
••• Barbareño has a cookbook coming out.
••• Chris Chiarappa’s forthcoming establishments in Noleta and Goleta.
••• New restaurant in the works at the Santa Ynez Inn.
••• A profile of Finch & Fork’s new chef.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: A builder’s own house on Padaro Lane for $36.5 million; equestrian properties in Toro Canyon and on Ortega Ridge; a boxy Pepper Hill house; faux-European with views in Upper San Roque; a turn-of-the-century house on Bath Street; and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Downtown parking rates have increased.
••• $10 million price cut for the Montecito Tea Gardens (above).
••• “For lease” signs are back up at the 805 Hazy & Deli and Victor the Florist spaces.
••• Another big wall is under construction along the Highway 101 corridor.
••• Tom Jones and Wallows to play the Arlington.
••• A local company bought the Waterman hotel.
••• Reopening of the Oak Park dance floor.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The University of California’s plan for the QAD campus remains a mystery (above).
••• The Santa Barbara city council rejected the proposed moratorium on new hotels and punted on changes to the State Street Promenade.
••• The latest on the fight between the county and neighbors of the Hot Springs trailhead.
••• Stalker arrested at Ariana Grande’s Montecito house.
••• Jenni Kayne’s Santa Ynez ranch.
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