Third Window Has Started Making Milkshakes
More food news: Courthouse Tavern has closed; Sear Steakhouse to change name and concept; Terra opening soon at the Steward hotel; the Epicurean Santa Barbara dining club; Welcome Coffee Cart profile; Strange Beast karaoke; Thomas Keller's likely template for the Coral Casino. 9
Inside the “Floating Home” Docked in the Harbor
Other recent news: UCSB is said to have pulled the plug on its monstrous dorm; Sonos is moving its headquarters to Goleta; is the Santa Barbara News-Press's print edition dead for good?; favorable reaction to 37-unit W. Carrillo Street project; investigating the remnants of Japan's 1942 attack at Timbers; no reopening estimate for Highway 1 near Big Sur; pilot program for a downtown tourist trolley. 4
The Extraordinary Whale House in Mission Canyon
Noteworthy new listings also include 13,231-square-footer off the Hot Springs Trailhead; new ocean-view construction in Hollister Ranch and Ventura; revamped design for rebuilding Richard Neutra's Slavin House on the Riviera; West Mesa spec reno; and more. 7
Chick-fil-A Has Reopened
More food news: Mister Softee is coming downtown; Sushi by Scratch Restaurants lost its Michelin star; Foxtail Kitchen to change name and concept; street kitchen on the State Street Promenade; update on Ocean Fathoms's legal trouble; Santa Barbara Vintners Festival is in October; the tipping conundrum at Sama Sama. 15
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Dined there on 3/26. the smash burger was awful. Ground up hamburger. Really? Looked sickly. NO tomatoes nor lettuce. Really? Telling family, friends, neighbors that… — Mary Woodyard
Erik, your viewers here should check out some videos on YT of full time RV'rs. There are many that would pay $100 a night to… — Dan O. Seibert
As opposed to the garden street RV / car parking lot? And why would nice rigs pay to park by the skatepark? — Mary
Please don’t change your approach in any way, shape or form! You are delightful and so amusing! And you are completely spot on in all… — Penelope Bianchi
$100/night until the class action lawsuit on behalf of those who cannot afford the fee — Bettye Jones
The users of this lot would be RV tourists with expendable income in nice rigs. There is no "gift' proposed as those spaces would be… — Don
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