FOOD STUFF
••• First impressions of Bar Le Côte.
••• The menu at Coast Range’s dining room, which is really opening this week (photo by Jeremy Ball).
••• A funky new Westside taqueria.
••• Dune appears to be opening a second Goleta café.
••• Farm-to-table pizzeria coming to Ojai.
••• Itsuki Japanese Restaurant in Goleta has closed.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s notable sales included a four-cottage compound at Miramar Beach that netted a $3 million pandemic premium; a beachfront condo in Rincon, a Campanil house in need of reinvention, yet another Hope Ranch fixer; a lucrative vacant-lot flip, and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• 95-year-old Eastside bridge to be replaced.
••• A clear explanation of the state’s new housing laws.
••• Randall Road Debris Basin should be done by year end.
••• U.S. Bank to buy Union Bank.
••• The tree of the month is the Nile tulip tree.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• 48-unit apartment building proposed for the Haley Corridor.
••• A new look for the Montecito Country Mart.
••• Beautyhabit is opening a shop here.
••• Warren Miller’s 72nd film to be screened at the Lobero.
••• The new contemporary house on Butterfly Lane.
••• An updated rendering of Summerland Elementary School.
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