FOOD STUFF
••• First look at the menu for Reunion Kitchen, now open on East Beach.
••• Labor-of-love Italian dessert restaurant coming to Paseo Nuevo.
••• No signs of life online at the Kitchen incubator/restaurant.
••• Goleta’s Gladden and Sons grocery store has closed.
••• Good Lion is working on another Ventura establishment.
••• In praise of Gipsy Hill Bakery’s pears in pastry.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: High in the hills above Toro Canyon; new construction in Hope Ranch; an 1885 cottage in the Brinkerhoff Avenue Landmark District; Ortega Ridge neoclassical; spectacular views from a midcentury house on Alameda Padre Serra; and a cute 1920 Craftsman bungalow on the Westside.
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BURNING QUESTIONS
“While walking on State Street the other night, I noticed that the top of the Paseo Nuevo tower was lit up inside, but I couldn’t tell why,” asked S. Here’s the answer….
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• 33 tiny cabins for the homeless will be installed downtown.
••• Santa Barbara County bought an Isla Vista building for the homeless.
••• County Sheriff’s Office patrol deputies are resisting vaccination and testing.
••• A survey of hitching posts in Santa Barbara.
••• A 32,000-square-foot bowling alley is opening in Oxnard (above).
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Congratulations to Barbara Sharghi for correctly identifying where this was shot. We’ll play again on Saturday morning.
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