Santa Barbara’s flourishing food and beverage scene reached new heights in 2025. Although this affluent beach town is best known for its idyllic charm, scenic mountain-meets-ocean landscape and many ...

Santa Barbara is one of California’s most quintessential beach towns. While it has traditionally been known as a Southern California hotspot for wine tasting, the burgeoning culinary scene continues ...

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Santa Barbara is one of California’s most popular getaways, and it’s easy to see why. Whether traversing State Street, the posh lanes of Montecito, the Santa Barbara Waterfront, or meandering around ...

In 2022, I started trekking up to Santa Barbara more frequently. This part of the Central Coast wasn’t unfamiliar to me but suddenly I felt compelled to immerse myself in the culture of the ...

Most of Mitchell Sjerven’s crystal ball was remarkably clear a quarter-century ago, when he opened bouchon as one of the first restaurants in America, perhaps the first outside of Napa Valley, to ...

Walking into the recently revamped, reconsidered, rejuvenated Harbor Restaurant, it sort of feels like you’ve entered the dining room of a Viking cruise ship. Perched on Stearns Wharf, you are as much ...

The affluent city of Santa Barbara is known as the American Riviera. Its sprawling south-facing beaches are dotted with luxury hotels and its hills to the north are home to some of the world’s most ...

“Olesya and I, and our partners Gene Sanchez and his wife, Carolina Jimenez, are very excited to bring The Harbor Restaurant back to its glory days for locals and visitors with exceptional dining, an ...

Meet L.J. Shalhoob at his newest restaurant, Shalhoob’s at 5112 Hollister Ave. in the Magnolia Shopping Center in Goleta. Credit: Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo Shalhoob’s kept its popular Funk Zone ...