EXCLUSIVE
Belmond has confirmed the longstanding rumor that it’s selling the iconic El Encanto resort on the Riviera.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Lama Dog is opening a cocktail bar called The Mullet.
••• First impressions of Corazón Cocina Sur at Linden Square (above).
••• The Nugget’s Carpinteria outpost should open next week.
••• Has Wylde Works closed?
••• Tickets to Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley.
••• The menu for Marisella at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara.
••• Soliciting frozen pizza recommendations.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Supercool midcentury in the heart of Montecito; the 1931 George Washington Smith house at the end of Plaza Rubio; Montecito one-bedroom for $5.7 million; bluff-front hexadecagon next to the Thousand Steps; Hope Ranch renovation; 1898 Lower Riviera compound; beautiful floors in Mission Canyon; high-design ADU on the Mesa; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Paseo Nuevo housing ambitions cut in half.
••• Mayor Randy Rowse is running for re-election.
••• Remembering architect Henry Lenny.
••• Architects and planners protest two misguided Santa Barbara developments.
••• Trump administration wants to allow new oil and gas extraction in the California Coastal and Carrizo Plain National Monuments.
••• A visit to the post-facelift Ritz-Carlton Bacara (photo by Ron Starr).
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