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  Cracking shellfish on the dock, authentic $2 tacos, and tri-tip sandwiches at an old stagecoach stop. You’ll find all this and more in Santa Barbara — one of our…

  Fondugues-Pradugues, a natural wine producer near Saint-Tropez, recently opened its sleek new winery and tasting room. We stopped in for a quick tasting a few weeks ago and fell…

  One of my earliest ideas for the menu at La Buvette came from opening a can of cooked judion beans—giant white beans imported from Spain—and seasoning them with a…

  When I met Alix Lacloche, an amazing chef in Paris, we discovered that we had a common passion for picnics. We spent a whole summer having picnics in parks…

  Perched high on a cliff on a secluded corner of Ischia, San Montano Resort & Spa offers a bird’s-eye view of the entire Island of Ischia and the Bay…

  If you love natural wine and really good Indian food, you need to go to Bibi Ji in Santa Barbara. The restaurant feels a bit like a nightclub, dark and…

Just a short drive from San Francisco, you could spend the afternoon at Nick’s Cove sitting out on the pier of this former fishing lodge enjoying the salt, sun, and…

Want to know where the locals go for the best tri tip steak sandwich? Located between downtown Santa Barbara and San Ynez Valley (one of our favorite wine locations in…

Fresh from the garden, this is a salad we’ll be making all summer long. Nick’s Cove even incorporates one of the best creameries filled with goats in Marin County –…

If you’re looking for Japanese food or sushi in Santa Barbara, you won’t want to miss Yoichi’s Japanese restaurant. A husband and wife team have transformed an old house into…

The ice cream sandwich we all should have grown up with. It’s-It is a legendary ice cream sandwich from San Francisco, created in 1928. Nick’s Cove has rediscovered this icon…

Santa Barbara Shellfish Company is by far our favorite Santa Barbara restaurant — dare we say the best restaurant in Santa Barbara? It’s not fancy and there is usually a…