Oh, my WORD!!! That buffalo milk soft serve at Rory's Other Place is NEXT LEVEL!!! I'm more of a cookie person, but recently had the vanilla bean and milk chocolate soft serve there and it was INSANE!!! My husband and I shared one serving with our dear friend and all spoons were clicking! LOL! That soft serve was gone in a HOT SECOND!!! It's honestly worth the hour drive to Ojai. With May Gray being what it is and June Gloom on the horizon a dash up to Ojai to enjoy the sunshine and some buffalo milk soft serve might be just the ticket! Hiking to search for Owl's Clover, Wild Peonies and Mariposa Lillies before or afterward would make the journey to Ojai even more of an adventure! Cheers!
These kinds of exchanges are why I read this newsletter :)
And Montecito Village Grocery.
We used to own Timeless Treasures just down the block from Mousse Odile and loved that place. Any chance you will bring back a version of their delicious lamb loin sandwich served on those fantastic foot-long mini baguettes?
Welcome to the south coast.
Jon Douglas is offensive! He testified under oath he’d never met Huguette, when she had introduced me to him there in 1977 & he ignored her instructions. He is as guilty as her lawyers for disrespecting her intentions & thwarting her noble benevolent wishes for her properties, which she maintained all those decades for me. She fired him when she found out in 2007 & after her stroke left her unable to communicate the rooked lawyers brought him back ~ to facilitate their sinister agenda. Guilty!
That $4.6 mill selling price for the condo in Carp can't be right? 1,500 square feet? I know it's right on the water, but a condo on a pretty busy beach?
It's also available at Lazy Acres, Mesa Produce, Gelsons and Pacific Health in Carp.
Speeding up ADU permits is a joke. It just took me FIVE years to get permits to upgrade my 1950’s electrical panel. I am trying to get a 280 sq. foot workshop ( electrical wiring, no plumbing , hidden from the street and neighbors) approved…this will take me at least two years and thousands of dollars in permits…
ADU’s are going up right on property lines..overlooking neighbors houses and yards. In Montecito there seem to be no studies done to see how these ADU’s are being used. The ones I know of are not affordable rentals, they are guest houses for already overbuilt homes.
Make a Village. Only Wise Growth, Make it Useful: Cheap Rents
Turn the big retail behemoths like Macy Nordstrom’s into villages with small, very affordable spaces for rent. Fill it with fix it places that are useful to Santa Barbara’s citizens. Fix it places, artisans, craftspeople. Places for the old and the young. Places for the rich and the poor. An area for learning to do things like sewing and mending, tinkering (think adult Ed but multigenerational). Some food too but Not All Food and Drink. (We have enough) Make a Village.
Permit Issues: Oops
, “ all we did was destroy an historic landscape and dig a hole for a lazy River without asking”
Nice to hear that Santa Cruz is on the upswing. I lived there for 10 years, and while it'll always have a special place in my heart, the intravenous drug problem was so out of hand, it was depressing. Literally people in public, nodding off with needles in their arms.
Well said Pam. I wholeheartedly agree with your post.
I will be opening an ode to my parent's favorite "Mousse Odile" restaurant with a French / Latin inspired food truck nearby called Mousse Orale Vato. We will feature tacos de escargot with garlic butter and cilantro salsa, and Birria Bourguignon - a take on the classic French dish popularized by our beloved Julia Child but with a Oaxacan twist. We are still in the process of creating our menu. Stay tuned.
Clear cutting oak trees is not just illegal. It is disrespecting our native trees and our neighborhoods. Why would someone come here and destroy whaat we all love about our area? Go somewhere else.
Is Pascucci Country Vinaigrette only sold at Tri-County Produce?
I would like to order a case of it!
Well said! I agree.
It's the best dressing!!!!!
Totally agree, Laurie. In addition to affordable housing, if SB could focus on affordable business leases and small business incentives to open more interesting, eclectic, compelling shops and restaurants, no one would want cars back in the State. I'd like to see more chairs and benches and plants in the center of the street to make it a place people actually enjoy hanging out.
Don't call it a "mall" if that word is displeasing. But call it "a community gathering place."
Thanks for keeping it available!!
So many interesting comments here, starting with "Old Walter's" and ending with the observations of other vibrant communities in the state, country and world as noted by Laurie. SLO appears to be in excellent shape and, on a recent visit to Santa Cruz, which has sometimes been kind of seedy, it too felt better than State St. Nice to see smart and civil discourse (unlike some of the insult-laden comments on other publications.
Thank you for the posting Jillian!!!! Yes that’s a fun true fact! Mousse Odile was a beloved French restaurant on E.Cota in the 70s and 80s, after closing the restaurant, the two sisters kept the dressing going for many years, eventually selling the formula to a couple that made it for several years… they were going to stop production of the dressing and we bought it about 20 years ago, my ex-boyfriend Rick Garcia (well-known fine artist/painter in town) keeps the production going and bottling at Santa Barbara Olive company. It’s a great dressing, but more than a salad dressing, we use it mixed in our bruschetta, it’s on our grilled asparagus, very versatile and a local favorite for over 50 years!
Pascucci celebrated our 30th anniversary last year and we appreciate all of our loyal regular customers!
Normally the park-and-pay app works really well for me but I have occasionally been stuck behind an out-of-towner who hasn't downloaded the app and can't get their card to work at the exit and need to be walked through it. The kids at the kiosks have a lot of time to scroll on their phones, but I'm not sure what would be a better alternative.
downtown SLO is vibrant and interesting and filled with people, shops, restaurants, art... it's worth taking a drive up to see what santa barbara could look & feel like - not just in the past but in the present and future. and not only is it SLO, many of the little town's downtowns north of us are full of interesting life! i wonder if many of our council members have travelled out of santa barbara. they seem to have such narrow vision - a sort of innocence and ignorance. there are such vibrant cities all over our country and europe - a plethora of visual and sensual delights.
