Siteline Santa Barbara
menu
  • About Siteline
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Email Newsletter
  • Instagram
  • Legal

December 14, 2025

  • Welcome Wagon

A Stylish New Nail Salon Opens Today

Springtide promises to take the nail salon to the next level with ethical labor practices; products that are non-toxic and vegan; top-of-the-line ventilation; sustainable environmental policies; and more. 1

  • Email Newsletter

Newsletter: October 2

The Siteline newsletter is the best way to follow the website. To subscribe, click the link at the bottom of this post. And you can unsubscribe at any time.

October 1, 2020

  • Price Cuts

A Sprawling Hunk of a House in the Golden Quadrangle

With just one notable upward price adjustment, and the rest down, the real estate market appears to one settling back into a sort of normality.

  • News Roundup

Indio Muerto Street Is Finally Being Renamed

Other recent news: Santa Barbara will replace parking kiosk workers with technology; the Apple store has reopened; complaints about the redistricting commission; cannabis grower agrees to work with community group; cannabis storefront applications; actor Ron Ely filed a wrongful-death lawsuit; courthouse arch restoration.

September 30, 2020

  • Odds & Ends

Forest Closure Extended Yet Again

Plus: New York City home store opening in Montecito; Governor Newsom signed the bill banning many rat poisons; 30 new electric-vehicle charging stations at a downtown garage; grants for small businesses coping with Covid-19; royals deny reality show report.

  • Just Listed

When a California Ranch House Is Done Right

This week's notable new listings include terrific old houses in the Upper East and on Equestrian Avenue, a miniature compound, a sweet farmhouse, a Mesa Cape Cod with a funky roofline, and more.

September 29, 2020

  • News Roundup

Santa Barbara County Enters the Next Reopening Tier Tomorrow

Other recent news: A small plane crashed into the ocean off Isla Vista; new efforts to get college students to behave appropriately during the pandemic; update on Highway 101 wildlife crossing.

  • Email Newsletter

Newsletter: September 29

The Siteline newsletter is the best way to follow the website. To subscribe, click the link at the bottom of this post. And you can unsubscribe at any time.

September 28, 2020

  • New Neighbors

Prince Harry and Meghan Have Reportedly Agreed to Do a Reality Show

Since the couple lives in Montecito, they seem likely to shoot here—a glimpse of their life will be the spoonful of sugar that makes the charity stuff more palatable. UPDATE: A spokesperson subsequently denied the report.

  • Food Stuff

Let’s Talk About Salty at the Beach

More food news: Rumors of a change at Derf's Cafe; the deli at Little Dom's Seafood is open for takeout; learn to make a standout dish from the Lark; praise for Rancho San Julian's dry-farmed melons.

  • <
  • 1
  • …
  • 295
  • 296
  • 297
  • 298
  • 299
  • …
  • 373
  • >

Email Newsletter

Or email [email protected] to be manually added.

Just Listed

  • Supersize Spec Compound South of the Freeway
  • A Handsome Renovation in Hope Ranch
  • A Heck of a Swimming Pool on Ortega Ridge
  • Spiffy $20 Million Spec Reno in Hope Ranch
  • Will McCormick House Become a Private Residence Once Again?

Recent Comments

Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted. — Dan Kolodziejski

Hallelujah! The return of that Southbound on-ramp is long overdue — Tammy

You've done a great thing for the hapless men of Santa Barbara with this series. Stopping by half of these stores. — Andy

The post office renaming will cost roughly $500,000 paid for by the USPS internal funds from stamps and fees. — Derek

Thank you, Erik, for reminding your readers to support local businesses; it is one of the critical ways to help our communities thrive. (I laughed… — Pat

I agree about the skimpy wine pour. However, we loved the shared entrees (chicken and salmon) with their special rice. Yes there were leftovers but… — ElizabethW

That 5% would go to all employees proportionate to their hours I would presume compared to tips where more skilled staff take a higher percentage,… — Don

Geo , you know absolutely nothing about the restaurant business. — Roy

What if, and bear with me here because this is complicated, restaurants just paid their staff normally and charged prices that reflected those expenses, i.e.… — Rich

Little Mountain just isn’t organized. Everyone is very nice and the atmosphere stylish, but there is something wrong with it. The food is weird, portions… — Joan

Restaurant News

  • Dart Coffee Co. Is Expanding to Summerland
  • Inside the New, Mostly Vegan Corner Market Downtown
  • Pascucci Restaurant Will Close After 33 Years
  • Opening Date for Que at the Santa Barbara Public Market
  • First Look at Bistro Amasa, Opening This Week

Popular Posts

  • Opening Date for Que at the Santa Barbara Public Market 9.3k views

  • The Fight Over La Cumbre Country Club 7k views

  • New Jeff Shelton Building Proposed Downtown 6.7k views

  • Dart Coffee Co. Is Expanding to Summerland 6.6k views

  • Inside the New, Mostly Vegan Corner Market Downtown 6.1k views

  • Delta Is Ending Flights Between Santa Barbara and Atlanta 5.8k views

  • Oprah Winfrey Sold Off a Piece of the Promised Land 5.3k views

Walk With Me

  • The Arty Heart of Downtown Santa Barbara
  • A Five-Block Adventure in Downtown Ventura
  • East Meets West on Mountain Drive
  • On Summerland’s Western Fringe
  • Higher Education on the Mesa
  • In the Shadow of Magnolia Center
  • Downtown and a Little to the Left

Burning Questions

  • What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
  • When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
  • What’s This Scaffold Structure on Las Positas Road?
  • Why Does Street Striping Take So Long to Happen?
  • Why Do Rocket Launches Look the Way They Do?
  • How Is the San Ysidro Debris Basin Designed to Work?
  • What’s This Building on Helena Avenue?

Get Out of Town

  • An Old West Town in Wine Country
  • The Glorious Isolation of Santa Barbara Island
  • Hiking From Hotel to Hotel in the Dolomites
  • A Ramble Through the English Countryside
  • Notes From Up North
  • Sleeping in Style at Ojai’s New Hotel El Roblar
  • There’s More to Peru Than Machu Picchu
Siteline Santa Barbara
  • About Siteline
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Email Newsletter
  • Instagram
  • Legal
© 2025 Siteline, LLC | Accessibility | Site created by NDIC