Santa Barbara's Essential Guide

Welcome to Santa Barbara Dining and Destinations, your source to discover more about Santa Barbara's most wonderful attractions. This site features the best our city has to offer highlighting Santa Barbara restaurants, home stores, fashion boutiques, art galleries, things to do, wineries and wine clubs, and local people.

Arch Rock Fish Restaurant

When local restaurant veterans Jeremiah Higgins, Mike Anderson and chef Scott Leibfried joined former L.A. Galaxy soccer star Cobi Jones to open Arch Rock Fish in the summer of 2010, they set themselves the unpretentious ...

SANTA BARBARA RESTAURANT UPDATE

Panera Bread
La Cumbre Plaza location hopes to open in late February.

Petros
In the old Café Buenos Aires location, Petros, a Greek restaurant with locations in LA and Los Olivos, is now serving dinner and plans to start lunch in two weeks.

Montecito Café
Celebrating their 25th Anniversary. Congratulations! With their tenets of quality, value and service, we look forward to celebrating their 50th in another 25 years.

JC Cellars - 2008 The Imposter

Jeff Cohn, formerly the winemaker at Rosenblum Cellars, took the leap and started crafting his own wines focusing on Rhone varietals. The Impostor is as loaded as a wine can get. It has full over-the-top dark fruits and mysterious aromatics of spiced plum, wild game, graphite and dried currant. It gains depth on the finish with complex minerality and chewy tannins. Enjoy this wine with a variety of meats, pastas and pizza.

Buoni Anni - 2008 Sangiovese

A classic Sangiovese in all of its varietally complex glory, reflective of a true Rosso de Montalcino – dry, lean and complex. The typical Sangiovese aromas of spice and violets are here; complemented by ripe, earthy currants and black cherry with a wonderful silky texture. The tannins and firm acidity are present but integrated. The grapes come from premium Santa Ynez Valley vineyards. Buoni Anni is the companion wine to the estate Sangiovese which will be called Cent' Anni and will be released in 2013.

Los Agaves Now Serving Breakfast

On Saturday and Sunday, Los Agaves is serving breakfast from 9 until noon. Menu items include Huevos Rancheros, Chilaquiles Rojos or Verdes, Nopalitos con Huevo and Machaca con Huevo. All breakfasts are served with complimentary coffee, and they have also added Mimosas, Peach Bellinis, Bloody Marys, Margaritas and hot chocolate.

Concerto di Vino

Wine is music, a melody of family and friends and often shared with food. Jerry Fiore has always enjoyed wine, but when he moved to the Santa Ynez Valley back in 2004, he could never have predicted the changes that were coming.

Robyn Loves Cake

Works of art, a feast for the eyes! One could go on and on about the outrageous cakes that Robyn Van Tuyl creates, but when you learn that she is completely self taught, never worked in a bakery, never went to pastry school ...

Outpost Trading Company

Located on the main drag in Santa Ynez, Outpost Trading Company honors the long-standing tradition of the old west mercantile store. You won't find grain or feed here, but what you will find is one of the most beautiful and diversified retail stores whose regular customers come from as far away as ...

Caliza - 2007 Red Blend Companion

As one of the newest players in west Paso Robles area, Caliza is already producing a hot list of impressive red and white blends as stated by Wine Spectator. The Companion is an exciting blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah providing a rich expression of both varietals. The wine is fruit-driven, rich and generous, with sweet-tasting ripe plum, blackberry and black cherry flavors that have a kirsch edge. Full-bodied and layered, ending with the same core of persistent fruit flavors.