EVERYONE’S A CRITIC
As you’d expect, the new AMA Sushi restaurant at the Rosewood Miramar Beach resort is pinch-me pretty—but can the food and service keep pace? Read the review.
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FOOD NEWS
••• High-end sushi restaurant confirmed for the Funk Zone.
••• New restaurant coming to upper De La Vina Street.
••• Charter Oak adamantly denies that it’s opening in Montecito.
••• State Street restaurant raising money for a live-music venue.
••• The chef at Tyger Tyger’s new incarnation.
••• The food offerings at Margerum’s tasting room.
••• Costa at the Hotel Mar Monte is now serving breakfast.
••• Spiffy new Ventura wine shop.
→ Read the post.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Toro Canyon farmhouse for $11.35 million; the childhood home of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid; Campanil house with potential; the one with the peekaboo bathroom; charming 1910 house in the Upper East; boxy architecture in Bel Air Knolls; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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