FOOD STUFF
••• Opening date for Que at the Santa Barbara Public Market (above).
••• Update on El Encanto’s plan for a pergola with retractable roof.
••• New Summerland café.
••• Breakfast burrito pop-up at Na Na Thai.
••• Merci’s chicken pot pie.
••• Rentable raclette grills.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Slick compound at the top of Picacho Lane for $28 million; Park Lane Mediterranean; vacant lot on Valley Club Road; another polo PUD model home; TV Hill floops; renovated 1913 Craftsman in the Upper East; Hidden Valley outlier; El Caserio mini-compound; the roofline of the year; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Two more new fitness studios.
••• Veronica Beard is open on Coast Village Road (above).
••• Firsthand report from a friend whose house was burgled.
••• The inaugural Santa Barbara Literary Festival will be this spring.
••• The Los Patos Bridge interpretive display.
••• Train and Barenaked Ladies to play the Santa Barbara Bowl.
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