Beachside Bar-Cafe

In recent times, I ate here once about a year ago, and again today. A year ago I got a call from some friends, it went something like this: “Hey! Uh…I have a pilot’s license and I’ve just landed at the airport. Wanna have lunch?”  And near the airport is Goleta beach and the Beachside [...]

June 27th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: American food, Bars, Eating Out, Santa Barbara | Leave a comment

Trader Joe’s store 110

Why is this Trader Joe’s the best of the lot in the Santa Barbara? Because of the parking. Lots of parking, which lowers my parking stress so much that I prefer to shop at this location than the de la Vina one, which I live closer to. But here’s my particular story. Sometimes TJ’s has [...]

June 21st, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Markets, Santa Barbara | Leave a comment

Here’s the Scoop

Here’s the scoop, peoples: this little shop in Montecito serves up gelato and gourmet sorbet. For this kind of frozen treat, it is my top pick in the Santa Barbara and greater SB area. This is locally owned, locally run and locally sourced. Flavors vary with seasons, with fruit coming straight from the farmers markets. [...]

June 20th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: American food, Eating Out, Santa Barbara | Leave a comment

Cal Taco

I had lunch here for the first time. If I could, I’d give it  3.75 stars. Slightly hole-in-the-wall, slightly out of the way, but bustling with patrons during the lunch hour thanks to UCSB students and business parks nearby. My companion had the bbq chicken sandwich, which looked very yummy, and she claimed was yummy [...]

June 18th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: American food, Eating Out, Santa Barbara | Leave a comment

Spoon

A bright and tidy shop with a wonderfully diverse range of mature flavors that slightly balances the bubblegum pink interior. I walked in dead set on getting the honey fig macarpone gelato, but then I saw the pink grapefruit and had to try it. As luck would have it, samples are happilydoled out. The pink [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Eating Out, Italian food, Santa Barbara | Leave a comment

Great Pacific Ice Cream Company

Truly, we are influenced by our environment. The Great Pacific Ice Cream Company is the perfect example. It is no more than Thrifty ice cream, filled with air. But eating it out on the wharf is a great experience and somehow the ice cream turns out delicious. The prices are also not ridiculous, they could [...]

June 15th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: American food, Eating Out, Santa Barbara | Leave a comment