FOOD STUFF
••• Oliver’s is rumored to be on the ropes (above).
••• Tamar has expanded its hours.
••• Bibi Ji moved up the last day in its current space.
••• Profiles of Lilac Montecito and Beast Taqueria.
••• The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern has begun selling pantry items.
••• Chef Efe Onoglu’s Aegean Neotaverna pop-up dinners.
••• Changes to Santa Barbara’s sidewalk vendor ordinance.
••• Pepperidge Farm introduced Ojai cookies.
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JUST LISTED
A ton of interesting new listings this week: Midcentury perch on the Riviera; sweet ranch house on a great street in San Roque; Marina Drive four-bedroom cut in two; appealing brawniness in the Golden Quadrangle; a lovely 2002 house in Romero Canyon; spec renos in the Hedgerow and Hope Ranch; a sprawler footsteps from El Encanto; Lower Village project; 1938 Samarkand; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara water rates to go way up.
••• Proposed Garden Street hotel will only have 60 employees.
••• Santa Barbara–based Jackpocket acquired for $750 million.
••• A Wells Fargo branch has closed.
••• The reinvented River Lodge motel outside Paso Robles has opened (above).
••• The tree of the month.
••• Sewage spills affect Goleta Beach and Miramar Beach.
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