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Carr Winery

Props to Carr Winery for taking a quonset hut and turning it into a nightlife destination in the Funk Zone. Their wines are primarily pinot noir, and they use their space for wine tasting and general quaffing while providing live shows and parties. I stopped in one night while waiting for another musical performance to [...]

Alicia’s birthday party

This Saturday has been crazy busy. In addition to marketing, coffee with Nicky, wine tasting with Risa, there’s also Alicia’s birthday. And after this is Zouzou’s birthday, and then an art performance in the Funk Zone. Who says Santa Barbara is dead? Alicia and David lost their home in the Tea Fire. They were very [...]

Jaffurs Wine Cellars

It’s Risa’s birthday event, and she wanted to visit wineries in the Urban Wine Trail. I joined for the Jaffurs portion. I have to say, Jaffurs doesn’t overwhelm me, or even whelm me. The less expensive wines are in the $20 range, and most others are quite a bit more. I don’t have that kind [...]

The French Press

Post-market coffee and nibbles with Nicky, we hit up le French Press for a change of pace. Ran into Ove in the back patio seating area and had an invitation to join him and his daughter for a pastry, but we opted to sit out front and discuss massage plans. I had a cappuccino, with [...]

Santa Barbara Farmers’ Market

Saturday at the market is a highlight of the week. Not only is it an opportunity to do the weekly shopping, but it’s a social hub as well. Many of my friends go to the market, and every Saturday morning I expect to hear my phone bleep with “Market @ 10?” When gasoline prices went [...]

Santa Barbara Bay Cafe

We’d just been wine tasting in the Funk Zone and needed to walk off the effects and soak up some of the alcohol with food. Poked our heads into the Bay Cafe just around the block and saw Wendy working at the bar. It was also just before 7 pm, so we made it in [...]

Municipal Winemakers

I met the owner, Dave Potter, through Ted. Dave’s an unpretentious guy, really friendly, and he makes wine. That’s an all-round awesome formula of general awesomeness. His day job is winemaking for Fess Parker (i.e. Frass from Sideways) and Epiphany Cellars, but at night he dons his bat suit and does his vigilante winemaking for [...]

Holdrens – Goleta

I can’t put my finger on it, there’s something “blah” about Holdren’s and steakhouses of this sort. It’s the kind of place people gravitate to when they think it’s as good as it gets. And steakhouses remind me a lot of “ME AMERICAN I EAT STEAK.” Steak wasn’t a big part of my life growing [...]

Kahuna Grill – Goleta

Sw…swaa…swa-weeeet … Forgive me, I need to catch my breath after practically running back to my computer after having these at lunch time. Ok, I’m ready. Sweet potato fries. Now available. $2.75 for a very generous order. Try them with the bbq sauce. Aw yeah. Kahuna has redeemed itself from the whulpable “Wipe Out” chili [...]

Julienne

Julienne offers very good and very fresh food, sourced as locally as possible. That’s a given. But some days they get an item in that’s so special, they create a one-off menu just for it, and that menu lasts one, perhaps two days. So if you want the skinny on the super special stuff, you [...]

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