By the edhat staff
Numerous readers sent us the link to a recent article in The New York Times featuring our lovely coastal town. Since so many of our readers found this interesting, here’s our little post about it.
Titled, “36 Hours in Santa Barbara,” the writer highlighted several of our tourist attractions, and some that we’ve deemed for local’s only. Here are some of the highlights mentioned:
Food
- LOKUM
- La Paloma
- ALESSIA Patisserie and Cafe
- Corazón Comedor
- Hook’d Bar & Grill
- Bell’s
- Bar Le Côte
Drink
- Frequency
- Valley Project
- Kunin Wines
- The Good Lion
- Pickleroom
- Beckmen Vineyards
- Caje Coffee Roasters
- Jeannine’s Bakery
To-Do
- Santa Barbara County Courthouse
- Old Mission Santa Barbara
- Lotusland
- Cachuma Lake
- BCycle
- Santa Barbara Arts & Crafts Show
- Stearn’s Wharf
- El Presidio
- Sullivan Goss
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Shopping
- Folly
- Domecíl
- Farmer’s Market
Read the full article here.
I read this article when it was first published in the NY Times. The only restaurant that I know on their food list is La Paloma and on the drink list is Jeannines and I think it is a bit odd being on the drink list. I thought well this is just me because I don’t go out a lot and don’t drink at bars, but most of my friends didn’t know many of the places the mentioned. I agree with their to do list. The shopping recommendations I don’t really get. Tourists may go to the FM to look, but I doubt they are buying much. Who is going to take a Cherimoya home in their suitcase?
“Drinks” are not all alcoholic. They listed it as a place to get coffee after walking the Sunday art show.
I must say the shopping section is sad,
Well, it’s the NYT. For New Yorkers nothing in a town this size is going to live up to what they can get locally.
Thee BEST clothing and accessory boutique and amazing shoe store in SB is Natasha. They clearly didn’t stop in there.
Also, no La Super Rica? Julia Child wrote about it not Bon Appetit and NYTimes so I am shocked they didn’t try there.
Corazón Comedor way outshines La Super Rica. Things have moved along in the last 25 years But if you’re walking down Milpas looking to eat, then go to El Bajio instead.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drosengarten/2013/06/27/santa-barbara-tacos-and-julia-child-how-americas-most-famous-french-chef-caused-a-mexican-food-sensation/?sh=38e266a14af1
“ Julia liked to do things and say things she wasn’t supposed to do and say. One of her dearest friends in the late Cambridge years, Dun Gifford, head of Oldways (a food think-tank in Cambridge), told me before his passing that bed-ridden Julia’s favorite treat was a bag of Big Macs and fries that Dun used to smuggle into her house. She felt so BAD eating those in bed, with the curtains drawn. I’m thinkin’ that Julia LOVED telling people about Super Rica because it was such a departure for her.”