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Banana Bread

I go through Kitchen Clear Outs reasonably often. This time, among other things, I had eggs, bananas and butter to use up. So, banana bread. Banana Bread * 3 or 4 ripe bananas, roughly mashed * 1/3 cup melted butter * 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup) * 1 egg, beaten * [...]

Ming Dynasty Restaurant

Ming Dynasty caters to a diverse Goleta crowd and the variety can be distracting to the menu that suits each person best. The prepared buffet on a Sunday afternoon seemed very popular to families, and non-Chinese. It was cheap, $13, and plentiful. It is also not for me, so of course I did not order [...]

Hot Dog food cart – Fashion District

Oh dear, don’t even get me started on how much fail the LA Street Food Fair was to us. It was too packed to even drive by it, much less get in. While en route, a friend texted me to say they’d shut the gates because there were too many people there. So much for [...]

Kobachi Izakaya Dining

Cindy’s in town! We all trooped over to Kobachi for her first night visiting. First, what’s new. Beer on tap! For my birthday I received a copy of Oishinbo’s Izakaya Pub Food and the first story is about a master beer pourer in Tokyo. The main character has been talking up the perfectly poured beer [...]

La Colmena

La Colmena is one of two new favorite taquerias of mine. I first sampled their food when they were the taco caterers for a friend’s birthday party. While no taco truck, they showed up with a custom-made grill, and tables to serve up condiments and side dishes. They prepared fresh tortillas on site, and offered [...]

Square One (closed)

This was one of those spur-of-the-moment evenings when we’re downtown, hungry, and suddenly decide it’s the perfect time to grab a meal at Square One. Sitting at the bar is the way to go, so we can engage the folks working there. Funny enough, we had walked by a couple other restaurants on our quest [...]

Chef Karim’s Restaurant

Karim’s is closing his restaurant after about 20 years of serving yummy Moroccan food to Santa Barbara. So come and get it while it lasts. Doors close at the end of March. Hospitality is a gesture of honor to Moroccans, at least my understanding of it. The dealio is that travelers passing through were doing [...]

Petit Valentien

I received a massage from Nicky for my birthday, and after an unknown amount of time in massage bliss, we went out for a small dinner afterwards at Petit Valentien. PV was one of the first restaurants in town to make small plates central to their dining experience, and one of the first places that [...]

Kobachi Izakaya Dining

It should be fairly obvious by now that my most frequented restaurant in town is Kobachi. And why not. I live close by, the food is good, there’s so much to choose from on the menu, and the small portions mean I can dabble and order lots of little plates. I came here for my [...]

Metropulos Fine Foods

I took the day off to celebrate my birthday without the hassles of work taking up my attention. For lunch we went to Metropulos to eat a gyro. Theirs are the best in town, made from scratch, and only served Fridays at lunchtime. Since I no longer work in this area, my only hope to [...]

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