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Na Na Thai soft-opens this week, bringing authentic Thai food to Buellton: After living in Bangkok for four years, Ashley and Nik Ramirez missed the food so much that they decided to open a restaurant here—and it’s unlike anything the Santa Ynez Valley has seen before. Plus: The first look at the menu.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Picacho Lane pocket listing for $10 million; Leslie Ridley-Tree’s Birnam Wood home; Campanil spec reno; midcentury fixer with a fun backyard; two-bedroom cottage in Hope Ranch; Riviera fixer; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Should Montecito’s Upper Village ban chain stores?
••• Ramp proposed for the Mission’s entrance (above).
••• Another discussion about the De La Guerra Plaza revamp.
••• New resale shop downtown.
••• Kickball has returned to Elings Park.
••• Graham Nash and Jimmy Webb at the Lobero.
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