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Taste of the Nation
Nestled between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the sparkling Pacific Ocean, Montecito Country Club is the ideal spot to enjoy an impressive collection of the best chefs and restaurants read more…
Downtown Art and Wine Tour
The Santa Barbara Downtown Organization will once again host the Downtown Art & Wine Tour on Thursday, May 24th from 5:30-9:30pm. Tickets go on sale May 1st for this popular downtown event where participants enjoy a self-guided tour of downtown venues prepared with a logo wine glass in hand for tasting wines and sampling delicious foods at every stop. read more…
Maggies
The much awaited renovation of the old State & A is picking up. After a very long permitting process, the owners Maggie and Barry Shulman are looking to open Maggies in the early part of August. read more…
On the Alley
In just a couple of weeks the much anticipated On the Alley will open at the harbor where the Minnow Cafe used to be. The Bennett family, owner’s of Brophy Brothers, are bringing in some significant improvements catered to the harbor community including a walk-up, read more…
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Audrey O’Brien GriffinAudrey O’Brien Griffin loves horses. Tell her you ride them; she’ll light up like the North Star on a midnight cattle run. Tell her you own one; well…you’re in for a real treat. As you kick off your boots and settle into one of the comfy white couches at the Santa Ynez Valley ranch she calls home, you’ll learn something else about this stunning woman, (who by the way, still rides, ropes and reigns at 73!) Her no fear, “bring it on” attitude towards life read more... |
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Santa Barbara Restaurant – Blue AgaveIt’s hard to know whether Blue Agave is a bar with great food or a cool little restaurant with an awesome bar. Close inspection shows it to be both. The bar stocks more than 40 tequilas, all 100-percent blue agave, from the purest blancos to Cognac-complex extra-añejos. Rare is the bar that serves mescal, but Blue Agave has seven, including four distinctive “village” varieties. Single-malt scotches, house-made chili-infused tequilas and vodkas, read more... |
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Real Food MattersKim Schiffer is a specialty caterer who spent a decade teaching culinary arts at Santa Barbara Adult Ed and owns a cooking school in a tiny mountain village in Southern Spain. What is not is a turkey farmer, and yet for three years, she raised and slaughtered her own turkeys at her Mission Canyon home before it was lost in the Jesusita fire. “I needed to know I could do it,” read more... |
