I.V. Eatery Branches Into Downtown
For its small size, Isla Vista is absolutely jampacked with restaurants.
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Michele Carbone’s New Book Cooks Up the Sweet Life
Living La Dolce Vita.
Via Vai
A review of the sister restaurant to Pane e Vino across the street.
Noshing with Grenache
Grenache might just be the Rodney Dangerfield of varietals.
Taj Cafe
An intoxicatingly familiar cloud of simmering and steaming Indian spices and curries lures guests off of State Street into the Taj Cafe’s serene yet exotic dining room.
Trattoria Mollie
Fresh homemade pasta with local crab sells out whenever it graces Mollie’s Montecito trattoria menu, and tasty Turkey Meatballs have caught Oprah’s attention.
Chamomile Cafe
The days are getting shorter, the nights cooler. It was sweater weather, even, for a couple of days, there.
You Montecito Cafe, Me Jane
Despite the headline, Jane (1311 State St., 962-1311), the just-opened sister restaurant to the Montecito Cafe, isn’t named after Tarzan’s beloved.
Sesto Senso
A review of Montecito’s newest wine and Carpaccio bar.
High on Sly’s Lobster Sauce
Generally, when a waiter offers up some puffery to applaud my menu choice, I assume it’s part of the server-patron game we’re both playing.