
FOOD STUFF
••• The best biscuits in town.
••• Uncorked is now serving a seven-course tasting menu three nights a week.
••• Austin seafood restaurant Clark’s is indeed opening on Coast Village Road.
••• Changes at Foxtail Kitchen.
••• A peek inside the Rare Society steakhouse coming to the Funk Zone.
••• The Ballard Inn’s chef has left after five months.
••• Bagel pop-up at Peasants Deli.
••• Twenty-Four Blackbirds is working on Oaxacan mole negro.
••• The Bristol Farms rite of passage.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: The Park Lane conundrum got handed off again; a 1923 Upper East house with pretty outdoor spaces; another one in Glen Oaks; 1970s French Normandy in Campanil; a very Mediterranean 5,300-square-footer on Gibraltar Road; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Vuori is opening a Santa Barbara store (above).
••• Pacaso is trying to drum up interest in another Montecito house.
••• Imminent reopening for Sheffield Drive on-ramps.
••• Construction to start at a busy Montecito intersection.
••• Paintings of swimming pools at Sullivan Goss.
••• Public hearings about congestion relief along the Highway 101 corridor from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara.
••• More on the pressure cookers attached to utility poles.
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