FOOD STUFF
••• Bossie’s Kitchen is serving breakfast (and that includes doughnuts).
••• Azul says it should finally open soon.
••• The Polo Club restaurant has closed.
••• Wine and hors d’oeuvres at an outpost of Renaud’s.
••• New forecast for the Dart café at the harbor.
••• A Carpinteria icon is no more.
••• Reader question about the Goleta Beach restaurant.
••• Profile of Oliver’s chef Manny Juan.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Cielito ranch house with a freeform swimming pool; Lower Village Mediterranean; 1929 Spanish Colonial in the Upper East; adobe hacienda compound; architecture with a capital A in the Santa Ynez Valley; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• State Street Promenade to get bike lanes again.
••• Montecito debris nets to be removed.
••• UCSB officially pulls the plug on Munger Hall.
••• New refillable store in Goleta (above).
••• The Modoc Road Multi-Use Path makes progress.
••• Proposed expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill.
••• ExxonMobil subsidiary wants to repair an oil pipeline rather than build a new one.
••• Fiddling with the boundary of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.
••• Real estate commissions could be headed for a change.
••• The tree of the month.
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