••• Drippin Chicken of Tracy, Calif., has taken over—and thoroughly repainted—the outbuilding behind Kim’s Service Department (home to Shaker Mill, Broad Street Oyster Company, and Casa Agria) on lower State Street. It specializes in Nashville-style hot chicken; look for it to debut sometime next month.
••• The Airstream café outside Godmothers in Summerland has scaled back its hours and menu, which is now mainly sourced from D’Angelo Bakery.
••• According to the Architectural Board of Review’s April 7 consent agenda, sandwich-and-salad chain Mendocino Farms—with 76 locations and counting—is opening in the former Panera Bread space in La Cumbre Plaza. The plan is to open up one of the walls to create a covered outdoor dining area.
••• A profile of Haas’s Fine Ice Cream. —Noozhawk
••• The restaurant taking the place of Zen Yai at 425 State Street (Gutierrez/Haley) is Siam Street Food.
••• “Any new updates on Louie’s at the Upham Hotel?” asks V. “We live a couple of blocks away and except for a short two-week opening prior to the holidays (if I remember correctly), it has been closed. It had a sign saying it would open spring of ‘25. I popped my head in, and now the notice says summer of ‘25.” The part about it reopening-then-closing is accurate, except it was in the fall, according to a Restaurant Guy post that also notes that “Louie’s California Bistro is a separate business from the Upham Hotel.” (The liquor license, which expires in August, is in the name of the hotel’s general manager.) I’ve never been able to get any traction with the establishment, so unless someone knows otherwise, we’ll have to see if it actually opens this summer.
••• Starting April 9, the Dutch Garden is serving dinner Wednesday through Sunday.
••• The scale of dinner at Tyler x Lieu Dit tasting room on E. Canon Perdido is refreshing: Wednesday through Sunday, it offers two entrées along with the regular all-day menu (a couple of salads, salmon rillettes, charcuterie, cheese, etc.). Last Friday night, our choices were steak frites and mussels; my husband and I shared the former and a bunch of other stuff, and it was all terrific. Reserve so you can be sure to get one of the pleasant sidewalk tables.
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Just wondering if you know what happened to Mad Dog and Englishmen bike shop in Montecito. The space is empty…they moved out quite recently I think…?
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