Siteline | Vic’s Wine Bar Has Opened at The Post

••• Vic’s Wine Bar has opened at The Post, taking over the Little King Coffee space Friday through Sunday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Here’s the opening wine menu, which will change frequently; the food menu will expand over time.

••• Jonesy’s Fried Chicken in Goleta is closing on August 30.

••• Crushcakes rolled back the recent changes at its Goleta location and is once again serving breakfast and lunch.

••• Apparently, The Knock (as the Blackbird space at the Hotel Californian is now known) has been themed around Alfred Hitchcock. 805Foodie got a press release and an invitation to an opening party.

••• I hadn’t been to El Encanto in a while, so my husband and I took a friend there for lunch. We ate outside, as one prefers to do in that extraordinary setting; the atmosphere was lovely, and the food was fine. The property changed hands over a year ago, but it still feels like it’s in a holding pattern. The only changes I noticed were that the dining room furniture got updated (although the room has an unfinished air about it), and landscapers were in the process of planting a lot of privet. Service was as spotty as it has been for years.

••• The Carl’s Jr. on Calle Real in Goleta has closed; as previously reported, Sweetgreen is taking its place. —Restaurant Guy

••• Ojai restaurants tend to close soon after opening in an alarming fashion. The latest to go: Reframe Bistro.

••• The word on the street is that the former Rite Aid at 801 Linden Avenue in Carpinteria will become a Mexican market.

••• Back in December, when I visited Buena Bodega in Ventura, I made a note to return when Luke’s sandwich shop opened next door. It took a while, but I finally got there and was glad I did. (We need more ambitious sandwich shops!) I ordered the Natsu Katsu sandwich, with chicken thigh meat, black sesame coleslaw, chicken-skin chicharrones, and pickled daikon on housemade milk bread. On the side: “umami miso” potato chips. Excellent stuff—a return trip is in order. And not to pick on Luke’s, because this sort of thing happens everywhere, but the “please bus your table” sign rankled a bit, given that it sits right next to where I was presented with options to tip. P.S. Afterward, I picked up a four-pack of an Australian soft drink called Mischief Brew—tonic water with lemon myrtle, rosemary, and bitter orange—at Buena Bodega and wished I had bought more.