Food & Drink Guide

This year’s annual Food and Drink issue comes out just as restaurants and bars can serve more customers with fewer restrictions. But eating out isn’t relegated to brick-and-mortar establishments, something the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted. Staff Writer Malea Martin writes about Santa Barbara County’s recently passed ordinance allowing. The pandemic also gave rise to outdoor eating, […]

Even though it seems as if we’re heading down the road back to normalcy, “normal” is going to look very different than we’re used to—at least for the time being. But, to look on the bright side, there will be more outdoor seating at your favorite dine and drink establishments, and they will also be […]

Read the articles: Ice cream, butchers, coffee shops, and picnics

To begin our annual Food and Drink issue, Arts and Lifestyle Writer Rebecca Rose caught up with local food truck operators and learned how mobile meals changed their lives [15]. Also, as part of Food and Drink, local cannabis users have more choices than ever for their edibles [19], and the International Wine Film Festival […]

What would the holidays be without food? Repetitive political arguments with distant relatives? A six-hour drive through holiday traffic to get to Grandma’s house? A three-hour wrapping marathon capped off by too much spiked eggnog and weird dreams about Claymation dentists? It’s the food that makes the holidays. Call it gluttonous overindulgence, call it a […]