Photo Credit: Carter Hiyama by Jeff Miller Everyone knows the restaurant business is about as steady as a bucking bronco. So why open a string of restaurants and one meal-prep service in and around Santa Barbara in a short amount of time? That’s the question posed to...
A bit of a twist at Margerum’s new tasting spot in Los Olivos By Leslie A. Westbrook Doug Margerum is at it again, this time with a gem of a new tasting room in Santa Barbara Wine Country’s charming Los Olivos. The spot offers a new twist on wine-pairing: a bento...
by Jeff Miller The first step to success is often failure. Failures like Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, and J.K. Rowling all agree on that. And you can add Kelly Brown to that list. For Brown, the watershed night was May 7, 1993. “I screwed up,” he recalled. Brown and a...
By Nancy Ransohoff This summer marks the 30th year that chef-owner Roy Gandy has operated his eponymous Restaurant Roy (restaurantroy.com) at its location on West Carrillo Street in downtown Santa Barbara. A fixture in the community since its opening in 1993 with a...
by Jeff Miller Among other things, the corner of Milpas and East Canon Perdido streets has long been famous for a cow. Not just any cow, but the beloved plaster “Old Bossy,” on her proud perch atop the 1939 building since the creators of the Live Oak Dairy put her...
by Jeff Miller What you see is a beautiful burger. What you don’t see is the effort that went into making it appear on your plate at Third Window in downtown Santa Barbara. “When you smash a hamburger, grease goes everywhere,” said Kristopher Parker, who runs the...
