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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 14, 2004 |
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L'ombretta - L'ombretta: Based on the assortment of clothes hanging at the window, some single dude lives at L'ombretta.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 06, 2004 |
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Via Maestra 42 - Via Maestra 42: Via Maestra 42 is actually the address of the owner’s family home in Italy. What a good boy, what a sensitive boy, and if you meet him you would agree.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 23, 2004 |
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Max's - Max's: Max’s is a coffee shop with some attractive items described on the menu, but still serves coffee shop food in a coffee shop atmosphere. The ambiance for me was strictly, “lunch at the local retirement home”.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 09, 2004 |
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Paradise Café - Paradise Café: The Paradise Café accomplishes, to its fullest, what it intends to do. They present an uncompromisingly good lunch, using fresh and healthful ingredients, at a very reasonable price.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 12, 2004 |
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Barcliff & Bair - Barcliff & Bair: Barcliff and Bair is boring, generic, impersonal and easily forgettable. And besides all of that, it is expensive. A turkey sandwich is 11 dollars, and a bad soup and half a sandwich is 9.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 05, 2004 |
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The Bay Café - The Bay Café: The patio was as beautiful as ever, with climbing vines and beautiful plants and the sun breaking through the wooden trellis - a feast to our senses. Ay, Santa Barbara, como te quiero.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 21, 2004 |
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Los Arroyos - Los Arroyos: When our waitress came by to pick up our empty dishes and ask us how we enjoyed it, I playfully said to her in Spanish that the food was almost as exquisite as our waitress. I wasn’t sure if she blushed, but I am sure that she tilted the plate of fish tacos, and I ended up going home with my cream colored slacks splattered with thousand island pink dressing.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 15, 2004 |
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Joe's - Joe's: By the time we asked for our check the place was packed - mostly locals and some business people from the Old Guard of Santa Barbara. I guess no matter how sophisticated your palate is, you still have to visit Joe’s and make sure it is still there with you, like an old friend or the image of that special lover you just cannot forget.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 08, 2004 |
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Tuttini - Tuttini: A man with gray temples, a light blue buttoned-down shirt and wing tips ran in and consumed a tuna sandwich in exactly 29 seconds. What’s the rush, Brother? We are all going in the same direction - relax and have a bread pudding! Maybe he was starting his own Kobayashi-like tuna fish salad competition.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 24, 2004 |
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Chase - Chase: If you believe in the separation of church and food, this place is not for you. There is no way you can avoid seeing the cross that hangs on the front wall; it is huge and a little intimidating.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 17, 2004 |
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Harry's - Harry's: I took a large fry and stuck it the middle of the dead chicken pot pie. It stood there firmly at attention, so I proceeded to put another smaller French fry across the center of the larger one. A little squeeze and, voila! My dear oatmeal, or shall I say chicken pot pie, R.I.P.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 09, 2004 |
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Bogart's - Bogart's: Our waitress, an Irish firecracker full of charm, good nature and humor, guided us through the menu with conviction and after the usual recommendations we proceeded to order just the opposite.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 02, 2004 |
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The Brewhouse - The Brewhouse: The smell of Pine Sol before lunch. It tantalizes your smelling senses and stimulates your salivary glands, and as a consequence your appetite becomes ravenous.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 26, 2004 |
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Tupelo Junction - Tupelo Junction: The collard greens were an absolute triumph all by their lonesome, but the macaronis were dry and tasteless. One wonders how they can be so tasteless with the Gouda and cheddar cheeses all over them, but tasteless they were - to the point of seeking help from a touch of salt.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 19, 2004 |
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La Super-Rica - La Super-Rica: This week Louie and Ed went to La Super-Rica. Everyone was happy to be eating there. Louie was so happy he threw his dirty fork on Ed’s plate.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 12, 2004 |
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Louie’s (at the Upham) - Louie’s (at the Upham): As for the penne dish, it had very little penne and very little spinach, but the olives, feta and tomatoes were plentiful - especially the tomatoes, which by shear abundance, took over the entire plate.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 05, 2004 |
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Pharmacy Coffee Shop - Pharmacy Coffee Shop: It was a wonderful day, but you would miss out on the feeling the dining room has to offer; the lovely Formica tables, the linoleum floors, the wall heater, the color of which matches the acoustic ceiling. Absolute perfect harmony reigns in the place.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 28, 2004 |
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Daily Grind - Daily Grind: Louie had to cancel lunch this week. He had some personal business that held a higher priority than sharing yet another meal with his friend Ed. This week there will be no waitress encounters, no overheard cell phone conversations, and no pasta with the life drained out of it. Instead, I went next door to the Daily Grind to get a turkey sandwich and a smoothie.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 21, 2004 |
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the Abdis - the Abdis: The place when we arrived was empty, 12 midday, but it got a little busy after that; still with one waitress and a cook; their expectations were clearly not very optimistic.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 14, 2004 |
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the Cava - the Cava: We ordered like we had just won the lottery, or at least a Pick Six at the racetrack. We ordered Halibut with a potato crust and two soft chicken tacos with rice and beans. That’s right, you’d better win something at the track, because the tacos are 13.00 bucks, and the halibut is 17.50. That’s for lunch, buddy! At dinner, prices go up.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 06, 2004 |
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the Ca' Dario - the Ca' Dario: As I ordered our check, I discovered to my amazement that my neighbor had indeed cleaned his salmon plate in its totality. It was also at this time that ‘Annette’ got up to go to the restroom. Standing, she revealed a mini skirt no wider than my pappardelle. As she walked away, the entire restaurant lost all mobility and sound.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 30, 2004 |
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Bitterman's Deli - Bitterman's Deli: The chicken broth wasn’t bad, but the matzo ball was more like a bocce ball, perfectly round and a little hard. The turkey was of the super market variety, but the sandwich with avocado, tomatoes, sprouts and onions was okay. The coleslaw was forgettable. Best of the whole thing was the pickle jar and the uninterrupted Seinfeld shows on the TV.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 23, 2004 |
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Brigitte's - Brigitte's: We got to meet a whole bunch of people at Brigitte's, all of them staff. A lady first greeted us and gave us our menus. Then another lady brought the water and bread. Somebody else asked us if we were ready to order, smiled and left. A couple of minutes later somebody totally different took our order. You want diversification in your service, go to Brigitte’s, it’s a little confusing but has a certain ballet quality to it.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 16, 2004 |
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Sojourner Café - Sojourner Café: As soon as we sat down we knew something out of the ordinary was going on. For no reason we could possibly think of, a waitress and the hostess immediately ran behind a partition and began staring at us like we were members of Al Qaeda. There was hate and suspicion in those looks, and there were bad vibes that were definitely directed at us. To tell you the truth, it was freaky.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 09, 2004 |
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Brophy Brothers - Brophy Brothers: I would have been happy even if my lunch consisted of just a Snickers bar. The place in itself is charming, with old black and white pictures of fishing past, a bar in the center of the eating area was the meeting place of several fisherman, having a brew and a good time as well. There are two outside eating areas; we were very lucky to get a table with a great view of the ocean and the hills as well.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 02, 2004 |
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Palazzio - Palazzio: Two of the dishes tasted exactly the same, even though they were completely different on the menu. When you put a gallon of cream and a half-gallon of oil on some ingredients, you drain the life out of them; you can call them anything you want. At the end, it’s just gook.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 24, 2004 |
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Fresco - Fresco: The salads are wonderful, and the house dressing is probably one of the best in town. Prices are very reasonable and if you are not too gastronomically pretentious you can have a slice of pizza or a calzone with a giant salad for $6.50. Their dishes are very generous and most of the time a half a salad should be more than enough. One curious tidbit, the ratio was approximately 5 women to every one man, including Ed and me in the male category. Where are the guys?
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 17, 2004 |
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The Good Earth - The Good Earth: The Good Earth is a good place to go when you just don’t care – when you’ve got to eat something, but don’t care what it is. You know exactly what you’re going to get, and that eliminates the trouble of choosing from the menu.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 10, 2004 |
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La Playa Azul - La Playa Azul: The tostada was generic and with a total lack of imagination in its presentation. Just pile everything up and good luck. The enchiladas were plain and simply bad. The filling almost all dark chicken meat and when we opened it up, it was staring at us. It was alive. That’s no good. The tortilla that surrounded this concoction had seen its better days, it was soggy and falling apart.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 04, 2004 |
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Figaro - Figaro: It was a great lunch with impeccable service and great views. Prices are moderate, $7.95 for either dish. The coffee could have had used a little more punch, but hey, another good find. We will be back. Hate to admit, but we will.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 28, 2004 |
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Pascucci's - Pascucci's: The most striking feature on the plate is a pinkish leaf of kale; I'm guessing it's for decoration. It is enormous and takes up a third of the plate. But that's okay, because the halibut is about the size of an anchovy; the penne is cold and the sauce covering it is inedible. Ed doesn't do that much better with his selection; the pasta is totally overcooked and cold; as for Alfredo, well, he must be on break because he isn't on the pasta.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 21, 2004 |
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Santa Barbara Brewing - Santa Barbara Brewing: Well, it didn't take long for Emilee, our waitress, to make her angelical entrance into our lives. Emilee is a blond blue-eyed American with a nonexistent waist, long wonderful legs, an exceptional figure, and the widest smile on the west coast - an absolute geschmack!
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 13, 2004 |
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D'Angelo Bakery - D'Angelo Bakery: It is with some disappointment and a certain degree of irritation that I must conclude that my lunch this afternoon was not only satisfactory but almost bordering on perfection. Very upsetting.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 06, 2004 |
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Our Daily Bread - Our Daily Bread: When we were leaving the sandwich lady was talking to her just arrived boyfriend. All was well and you could hear the chirping of hormones in the place. He ordered quiche. Good idea. Don't get the soup buddy.
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