I stopped reading there!
I'm glad you have had a better experience there than I did, but I take some umbrage at the insinuation that we were treated badly at Zeb for any reason other than he's a total jerk, and online reviews bear that out: https://www.yelp.com/biz/zeb-firenze?rr=2#reviews. Truly, he was rude to us from the moment we stepped inside.
I have been to Florence about 5 times, most recently this January and stayed 7 nights. I couldn’t disagree more with a number of points here. I had zero issues with air quality. You were standing in the birthplace of the Renaissance and you complain about a rude restaurant employee? Usually you get what you give. I have never had any issues with rudeness and I have been there far more than you. I would encourage people to bin this review and enjoy the Medici hometown and marvel in the greatness that Firenze.
Me thinks it is clearly in a residential neighborhood, and unless that monstrocity behind the court is their house, I predict a swift shut-down of this operation. And being a non pickleball player, is it traditional to have the courts line up end to end? I would think the ball coming into the game from behind would make a short-fused player implode?
Municipal Winemakers did a successful SMBX campaign last summer to partially fund their Ventura expansion. You can read more about it in Edible Santa Barbara:
https://ediblesantabarbara.com/departments/small-bites/municipal-winemakers-growing-community/
Ryan, out of curiosity - who is denied from or otherwise unable to visit Crushcakes?
It would be nice if the city would keep clean the walkway between State Street and Dollar Store’s parking lot. They seem to ignore that block down through Gutierrez Street. Perhaps the new, upcoming UCSB presence will bring attention to this matter.
Tomato, avocado, cucumber is $240 at Bar Lou?? I hope that’s a typo.
County email going unanswered? What has worked for me in the past is to cc your District Supervisor. You should not have to do that especially with questions about property taxes!
Where are the pickleball courts located? Interested as it looks like a residential neighborhood and the website doesn't specify anywhere.
I think a great example of something in Florence that would make sense: the “il Mercato Centrale Firenze” (look it up). Perhaps the city could take possession of the old Macy’s building in Paseo Nuevo. Convert the bottom floor to a continuous open farmers market. Convert the second floor to a public market similar to the one we already have in town (yes, we can handle two).
Awesome! Excited to go one day!! Thank you.
Now it looks like a time capsule from 2019 rammed into the husk of something from the early '80s.
Seriously - A Big NO for me on that pickleball club.
Posting this more as an FYI - not to get in the middle of the above conversation…
The Ellwood will serve until 10pm in the dining room with the bar open later.
$4.49 Montecito Shores with neighbors above where you can hear every step and breath ? Good luck
Unlike her restaurants, will the Pickleball social club be inclusive for everyone?
Do we really need another grossly overpriced "super" market? Erewhon makes Lazy Acres look like Walmart.
I wasn't born here, but the freeway is not actually the divider according to maps from Santa Barbara County as well as the Montecito Fire District. These boundaries are also reflected in GIS data and any online mapping tool.
Butterfly Beach, Coral Casino, etc, are all in Montecito and south of the 101.
Ironically, neither the Montecito Club nor Coast Village Road are actually in Montecito, but rather, in the city of Santa Barbara. However, people accept them as Montecito in practice, just like this new development will be.
Conversely, the "Santa Barbara Cemetery" is actually in Montecito, in spite of the name and being South of the 101.
I am old enough to remember a time when learning about something new took some effort. Visiting a library, looking through the card catalog, finding the corresponding book on the subject you wanted to learn about. Reading it. It took some effort. The inter-webs and sites like Google have made learning so incredibly easy, that it astounds me when I see questions posed that could be answered in seconds with the same fingers and keyboards used to ask them.
key word- 'if'...
I'm just thrilled
let's see some pix of the drupes and arils-- what r u talking about??
Hi Erik, Thanks for the shout out to Santa Barbara Beautiful.
I'm a Santa Barbara Beautiful board member and wanted to let you and cathy h know that David Gress, Santa Barbara Beautiful board member (25 years) was City Arborist of the City of Santa Barbara (8 years), takes the photos and writes the "Tree of the Month" articles.
The archive of 100+ articles can be found on the Santa Barbara Beautiful website at https://sbbeautiful.org/category/tree-of-the-month/ He wraps up each article with locations around town where mature examples of each tree can be found.
Am I the only one who thinks it odd that they are building a new one-story retail building in a city supposedly starved for housing? One or two floors of housing, affordable or otherwise, would fit here well. To solve the housing crisis we are going to have to get rid of the housing/retail apartheid mindset. This looks like another opportunity lost.
P.S, I don't think you are an asshole either!
