HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales include a $52 million whopper (the biggest of the year, so far); a remarkable price in the Golden Quadrangle (above); a Coast Village fixer that went for $1.125 million over ask; widescreen views at an Alameda Padre Serra midcentury; and many more. See what sold—and for how much.
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FOOD STUFF
••• The Little Kitchen is closing after six years.
••• Local on Coast Village Road is getting close to opening.
••• Taste of Santa Barbara tickets are now on sale.
••• Shalhoob is said to be opening a bar in the Public Market.
••• The mother-daughter team behind Beans BBQ.
••• What the Ballard Inn’s new owners have in store for the hotel and restaurant.
••• Bar Le Côte chefs moonlight on a taco pop-up.
••• A new Mexican is restaurant opening on the Westside.
••• There’s hope for the Paradise Store & Grill.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Grocery workers vote to call a strike, but no date has been set yet.
••• Branding Santa Barbara as Silicon Riviera.
••• Trapeze school to extend its stay in Vera Cruz Park.332-apartment complex proposed for Goleta.
••• Neat houses featured in Santa Barbara magazine.
••• Hearst Castle will finally reopen.
••• Letter Perfect stationery shop has left Coast Village Road.
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