FOOD STUFF
••• A new gelato shop is opening in the Tondi space (above).
••• Mendocino Farms opening date.
••• Two new restaurants proposed for the Funk Zone.
••• Fresco at the Market is introducing breakfast, dinner pop-ups, and more.
••• Apiary is taking over Idyll Mercantile.
••• West Beach now has a coffee bar.
••• Corazón Comedor switched back to table service.
••• The Santa Barbara Wine Festival is coming up.
••• No word on when Los Agaves’s Milpas outpost will return.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Midcentury compound in Mission Canyon for $3.865 million; Sea Meadow end unit; Carpinteria contemporary with ocean views; off-market mystery next to Hilda McIntyre Ray City Park; Hope Ranch spiffer-upper; Alta Mesa spec reno for $4.3 million; 1930 Tudor in San Roque; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The end of the left-exit era.
••• Update on the psychedelic playground near East Beach (above).
••• The Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Lower Village.
••• Diana Ross is coming to town.
••• New tenant for the former Avis building in the Funk Zone.
••• Another single-artist gallery is opening downtown.
••• Modoc Road bike path question.
••• Parking for Mony’s, Tendrel, etc.
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