4347 Marina Dr selling for $1000 sq ft seems off. There had to be something funky going on.
The owner of the Harbor Restaurant is not only a real estate agent he’s also a real estate attorney. Is he really trying to tell everyone that he didn’t understand the lease he signed? I don’t believe it for one second. This sounds like a desperate move to either avoid paying rent or maybe he is going to start a go fund me campaign to try and raise money to pay the back rent he owes.
He’s blaming the fact that he doesn’t have enough customers to pay his rent when in fact he has no clue how to operate a restaurant. Service at the Harbor restaurant is not very good and the food is not great also they must have ran out of money because the restrooms are old and very dirty.
No thank you I will not be holding my holiday party or having any other special occasion meal at a restaurant where ownership believes the rules don’t apply to them.
And the most authentic and genuine store of all “The Santa Barbara Company” not even mentioned …
Just went to the Copper Coffee Pot today and the Caserta Pizza was just as good as when it was L’Antica. Yay!
I love the Surfing Cowboy Cap from Baja Montecito!!
Does the Après Ski party include a lift ticket?
Bravo, Music Academy of the West!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art gift shop has moved upstairs. Still a great place to shop with lots of Impressionist merchandise to match the GREAT exhibition Monet to Matisse !! Just walk up the steps to the main front entrance and ask to shop. They will show you the way to the new Museum Pop-Up Store.
Photos and info are from last year?
This is the box outside of Ca’ Dario at the corner of Anacapa and Victoria.
Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted.
Hallelujah! The return of that Southbound on-ramp is long overdue
You've done a great thing for the hapless men of Santa Barbara with this series. Stopping by half of these stores.
The post office renaming will cost roughly $500,000 paid for by the USPS internal funds from stamps and fees.
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 at the Bird Call reference to Tippi Hedren [not Hendren].)
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 the chicken tasted even better the next day. Little Mountain is one of our new favourite places!
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, bartenders and servers more than bussers and barbacks. Is that separated out from wages to reduce payroll costs and workers comp?
I think just charge more. There is a feeling of can I trust its actually being given to the employees in full. People generally dont like being nickle and dimed.
Geo , you know absolutely nothing about the restaurant business.
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. like every other business in existence.
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 (even though they are for sharing) are too big, many of the tastes just don’t work, wine pours are 4 oz. and the tables are too small to accommodate all the dishes. I may try it again, but not for a while.
I intensely to test Sur charges for the cost of doing business. Will they give back 5% profits to the patrons when they do extremely well? If they are running a successful business, then they need to pay their staff accordingly. When they stop paying taxes on tips, that will be a huge windfall and pay raise. I truly appreciate good service, but high-end restaurants can can afford to pay for good employees.
Just call it "The Copper"
The lack of generosity above is truly astonishing. Santa Barbara is an extraordinarily expensive place to live, as we all know. The 5% toward team members that we sometimes see at restaurants is a very small contribution to help ameliorate the cost of living -- many restaurant employees have to commute long distances to get to work. And what is with the cynicism that the 5% charge doesn't go to the employees? Do you think all businesspeople are liars? I too have dined at Little Mountain -- and have noted that the servers seem particularly happy to be working there. Perhaps it is partially due to this small, but generous offering of 5% which is clearly listed -- and OPTIONAL -- on the menu. The folks above above are the same people who under-tip, never imagine what its like to raise a family on a server's income in a city where a cheap apartment is $5k/mo. Imagine outside of your bubble of privilege and you will see why this is a necessary tool for local businesses to keep good team members. I pay the 5% and thank my lucky stars we finally have some glamorous places to eat in town that also treat their staff with dignity.
Extra charges/fees are cash grabs that diminishes the dining experience. Tipping is out of control, then layer in the fees, and I ask myself if I want to come back to that establishment. I’d rather see a higher price on the menu to know what my true costs are vs dealing with these up-charges at the end of the meal.
Instant drop to 15% and a comment on the ticket explaining why. Should be illegal for restaurants to create extra charges out of thin air.
The Copper Coffee Pot name will be the kiss of death unless it’s another breakfast spot.
