Municipal Winemakers Is Opening in Ventura

••• Municipal Winemakers‘s new tasting room in Ventura opens this weekend: “In addition to serving Muni’s many brands, the new location on Ventura Avenue features a DIY cheese and charcuterie station and a large parking lot that will regularly host food trucks.” —Independent

••• Takashi Ramen in Goleta says it should open within the next two weeks.

••• Noozhawk profiled Mylestone Barbecue, which sells “barbecue on Sunday afternoons, and smash burgers (with the same seasonings) on Friday nights” at Draughtsmen Aleworks in Goleta.

••• Pressed Juicery is back at the Montecito Country Mart, in a fashion—it now has a fridge inside Caffe Luxxe, which comes at the expense of the café’s dignity.

••• A profile of Capuno’s Lutong Bahay, a Filipino restaurant in Santa Maria. —Independent

••• “Jane on State Street in Santa Barbara is open again for lunch,” which hasn’t been the case since the start of the pandemic. —Noozhawk

••• Tickets are on sale for the Women Winemakers & Culinarians Celebration, March 6-9 at various locations in the Santa Ynez Valley.

••• Some friends gave us a bar of Dubai chocolate—milk chocolate with a pistachio cream filling and crispy kataifi (shredded phyllo), which I hadn’t realized was a thing until I read about it in the New York Times—that they had bought in New York City, and it’s addictive, to say the least. Has anyone spotted it anywhere around here…? UPDATE: A couple of folks said that Lokum has it, and apparently the market across from Bell’s in Los Alamos does, too. UPDATE 2/12: Add Top This Chocolate in Ventura to the list.

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