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A Home-Cooked Meal on the Last Frontier

There was a simplicity to the place. To the ways in which we spoke and worked and moved. It seeped into the food
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Gourmet Gauchos Converge for Taste of UCSB

As alumni gathered this weekend for reminiscing the good ol' gaucho days, they enjoy the refined and refreshing Taste of UCSB
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Isla Vista’s Newest Contender: Otaco

After a typical restaurant review goes sour, we want to know a few things about Otaco.
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4 Smoothie Enthusiasts to Follow on Instagram

Just in case you're still looking to make your insta feed even yummier.
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Two More Reasons To Keep Your Produce Local

Goleta's bi-weekly farmers market may be small, but it has some perks of its own.
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Culture at its Finest: Highlights from the Food and Wine Weekend

This past weekend, many flocked to the Bacara, where the second annual Santa Barbara Food and Wine Weekend honored the legacy of Julia Child.
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Earthday Festival Brings Together Santa Barbara’s Best Sustainable Foods

Gastronomical highlights from this year's Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival
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East Beach Tacos (Almost) Hits it Out of the Park

Milpas's latest opening combines popular cuisines from other cultures with taco classics to create intriguing delights that may be more exciting than free turns in the nearby batting cage.
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A Caffeine Addict’s Guide to Santa Barbara: The French Press

If you haven't already found yourself wandering through the doors of The French Press, now is the time!
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Fan of the Gaucho Farmers Market? Check Out what Downtown has to Offer

If you only hit up the Gaucho Farmers Market...Here’s what you’re missing:
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A Caffeine Addict’s Guide to Santa Barbara: Vices and Spices

The guide continues with this Upper State based coffee and gift shop.
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Sushi Cafe Supplies Calories, but not Necessarily Smiles

Sushi Cafe reminds us why ‘it’s more important to know the bad sushi places than the good ones.’
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Bomber Diary 3: One Girl Drinks One Beer, Because Science

Science quickly devolves to live-Tweets in this journal-entry-esque beer review.
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4 Food Porn Instagrams to Turn On (Your Taste Buds)

Don't worry. This porn is SFW.
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Don’t Pass Up Passover: Chocolate-covered Matzah

Chocolate-covered Matzah tastes like a combination of a heath bar, peanut brittle and chocolate — in other words, heaven.
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