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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Recent Comments
Not many boutique health resorts being built for the middle class Im afraid. On the plus side lots of jobs from construction and operations.🙂 — Don
Hi Erik, listing agent for 411 E. Carrillo here. Thank you so much for the write-up. I really enjoy reading your work, and waking up… — Spencer Cole
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With just a tiny bit of research, Rincon Farms is a regenerative organic farm , yay ! I’m excited to try Monte’s, and equally as… — Janie
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Will this health resort only be accessible for the wealthy? Is this a resort that the working class can also afford? — Evie
2021? Are you stuck down there? Do you need help? We’re up here in 2026. — Jenna
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