They aren't all ugly. You sound snooty.
Made it to Azul and I highly recommend. Great service and delicious, interesting food. We had the pork shank and short ribs, two standards with a Mexican flair. Go and enjoy. You are right, the courtyard/patio is as pretty as ever.
Cafe Petra looks dreamy. So many good restaurants have come and gone on that block of Cota, hope it works out for them.
I would absolutely love to live in a Quonset hut. Hope others around town are similarly preserved.
Where to start with that delusional fever dream of a letter from Gary Friedman… Countdown to implosion and insolvency. I give it 10 years. Far from being arbiters of style, they seem to have simply figured out how to capture hearty margins on large-format contract-grade furniture that takes its design cues (or rips them off if we’re being honest) from influencer aesthetics of 10 years ago. The current iteration of RH’s look is straight off of beige girl Instagram from 2017. Many of their pieces of furniture are also near plagiarisms of mid-centuria sold to people who don’t know they could just buy the real thing because they don’t know what the real thing is. There will always be wealthy people who lack any personality of their own and need to furnish a home overnight. RH is perfect for them. The company was handed the opportunity for international expansion simply by way of fortune - not by their own doing. The great leveling of aesthetics via social media and the internet from regional or culturally specific looks to one bland global style has benefitted RH, but they just got lucky with that. I wonder if Friedman actually gets that and just can’t say it out loud (in which case I’d then say he’s a good businessman) or if he actually drank his own champagne-flavored kool aid. Hard to say. Building a real estate portfolio isn’t a bad idea. It could be all that’s left in the end. I’m writing this from my tub surrounded by an RH Belgian linen shower curtain and looking up at an RH medicine cabinet though, so maybe Friedman will have the last laugh after all. I remain skeptical empire is built on shower curtains but I could be wrong.
I agree. They look trashy and temporary and there is no justification for their existence anymore. A discussion about permanently expanded or redesigned outdoor dining areas can be had separately, but the parklets should go. Even the name grosses me out.
It is time for those parklets to go. They are so incredibly ugly and I think our town is one of the only ones that still has them. When I use the term 'parklets' with people who don't live in Santa Barbara area, they have no idea what I'm talking about
Last month someone at Tre Lune told me their parklet had to come down by Dec 31, so they must have known about this for awhile. I never have problems finding parking on coast village road so I’m not sure why this had to happen.
What comment in particular did you not like?
his own comments at the dealbook summit are a decent starting point.
Exactly!
Yeah, I totally trust the MSM, X's direct competitor, to accurately represent what Elon said / did, they definitely wouldn't selective edit something and manipulate the context. Can you provide a link to just 1 example?
Really? Not sure how anyone could have missed it, but Google Elon Musk and watch some clips from the last 2 months. It will be obvious.
Completely agree. Please contact this parking person from the city reviewing the policy and do the survey. I've done both and hope other tax paying citizens of Santa Barbara will do the same
Permit and fee cost out of control
"because I would like to see Twitter/X die" wow, sounds like you have some issues you need to work on.
Why the hostility towards X?
Whoa! The freeway work at Cabrillo and Coast Village/Hot Springs is gonna be an absolute mess — wonder how long they expect construction to happen. Also what happens when all that is closed to rebuild? Beyond all that future uggggh... the proposed double roundabout in a relative close distance to each other feels like a bit of a mess, considering the existing one backs up (often unnecessarily). I hope they have done their homework and figure out the flow. I gotta say, the on and off ramps to Cabrillo finally will make more sense (versus the Los Patos exit which never made any sense to me), but I will deeply miss the northbound Carbillo/Hot Springs "zoom" lane to the 101. Its had a good run and has been insanely useful when late to the airport, or annoyed by middle lane-huggers driving 50mph.
For years it was on the corner and then moved about 10 years ago.
Agreed!
My guess is greed!
In & Out at the suggested location was idiotic! Grateful logic was used in deciding to keep McMurray useable. The obvious place for the fast food giant is north on McMurray at 3 way stop- putting it on the NW lot allows a traffic dream situation w/access coming from 2 off ramps at bridge over 101 exits , as well as traffic from McMurray. Go walk it Erik- I drive that exact route 4 times a week, lots of walkers!
Strange Family Wines- Chef Maili Halme did a wonderful job resurrecting Mattei’s Tavern for the Strange Family- and they pulled the rug out from under her. They are pure LA.
No one ever moved in and the buyer only visited a few times. Wondering how 4 months later with no work they anticipate getting $400K more?
Dating myself, but oh, the wonderful days of the upscale, romantic Harbor Restaurant with its grand piano. I was there on a blind date the night the restaurant burned down--I think it was 1971. So tragic and sad for all of us. Fingers crossed this group can get it close to the glory days.
It is on the wall of the little building on a tiny little street, 812 Presidio Avenue. It used to be the law firm of Weldon U. Howell, not sure what it is now. There is a little elephant fountain in the courtyard....one of my favorite little places in town.
