FOOD STUFF
••• Low Pigeon’s second café is open.
••• A local barbecue company is opening a restaurant downtown.
••• Bar Le Côte is closed while it recovers from a fire.
••• The Cabrillo Pavilion restaurant appears to be debuting soon.
••• High Seas Mead has plans for a taproom, cider, wine, and more.
••• A profile of Centennial Beer Hall.
••• Pepe’s Mexican Restaurant in Goleta is shooting to reopen in January.
••• The price that the Hotel Californian recently fetched.
••• Brewery confirmed for the Funk Zone.
••• Confirmation of IHOP’s new Goleta location.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: a chance to be the king of TV Hill; a 1952 adobe walkable to Hammonds Beach; a 2006 San Roque house with the spirit and charm of an older property; a Lower Riviera fixer; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The county has extended its health order requiring masks indoors.
••• Randy Rowse and the three city council incumbents were declared election winners.
••• An interview with Rowse.
••• Why Santa Barbara needs a runoff or ranked-choice voting.
••• Charlie Munger defends his depressing UCSB dorm design.
••• County Planning Commission formally rejected ExxonMobil’s trucking proposal.
••• The former Nordstrom building has new owners wary of big-box retail.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A local jewelry brand’s new shop downtown.
••• A visit to Aloes in Wonderland.
••• Author Susan Orlean at Chaucer’s Books.
••• Screenings of Santa Barbara Weed Country documentary.
••• Presentation by architect Marc Appleton at the University Club.
••• The answer to last week’s “Where in Santa Barbara…?” stumper.
••• Care to recommend a movie theater?
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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