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June 25, 2025

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Newsletter: June 25

June 25, 2025|by Erik Torkells

FOOD STUFF
••• First impressions of The Win-Dow burger stand (above).
••• The Breakwater Restaurant’s new name.
••• Ritz-Carlton Bacara’s Italian restaurant opens this week.
••• U-pick organic apricots.
••• Soul Bites has closed.
••• The Sando Truck is moving to Goleta.
••• Brazilian food delivered.
••• Sneak peeks of Lily’s Donuts & Pops.
••• Paseo Nuevo beer garden to close.
••• Thai-Asian food truck at Draughtsmen Aleworks in Goleta.
••• Mylestone Barbecue is now behind the Wildcat.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Park Highlands spec reno for $5.575 million; 1990 five-bedroom on 13.28 acres above San Roque; Carpinteria beachfront, more or less; Las Canoas contemporary; Buellton compound with a miniature Old West town; 1936 two-bedroom on 2.7 acres in Carpinteria; West Beach duplex; and more. See what sold—and for how much.

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ODDS & ENDS
••• Two more Rite Aid stores are closing.
••• Inside the new 30-room vacation-rental hotel downtown (above).
••• Adjacent Highway 101 on-ramps to be closed for nine months.
••• Queens of the Stone Age concert.
••• Heidi Merrick sample sale.
••• The July 4 celebration at the waterfront.
••• John Waters’s Halloween show.
••• “Where in Santa Barbara…?” answer.
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Recent Comments

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