Doors Open for Full Service of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in Historic Los Olivos Building Brothers Matt and Jeff Nichols, chefs and long time Santa Barbara County restaurateurs, have opened their new restaurant, Sides Hardware and Shoes, a Brothers Restaurant, at the former Side Street Café located at 2375 Alamo Pintado Avenue in Los Olivos,…
(April 26, 2012; Los Angeles, CA)—The 7th Annual LAWineFest, benefiting City of Hope, has partnered with Los Angeles magazine in lining up 350 global vendors to pour more than 500 wines, craft brews and artisanal spirits at this year’s event. Known as the largest educational wine tasting event in Los Angeles, LAWineFest affords Angelenos a…
The Sta. Rita Hills designation has deservedly become one of the most renowned in the greater Santa Barbara wine producing region. One of the smaller AVAs in California, the eastern edge of Sta. Rita Hills is about four miles west of Highway 101 in Buellton and continues to the western boundary, about two miles east…
Chef Nyesha Arrington Designs 5 Course Spring Market Menu Paired with Palmina Nebbiolo Wines WHO: WILSHIRE RESTAURANT, Santa Monica WHAT: WILSHIRE restaurant and Executive Chef and Top Chef: Texas contestant, Nyesha Arrington, present an intimate 5 course winemaker dinner with Palmina winemakers Steve and Chrystal Clifton under the stars on the lower patio of the…
Saturday April 21st, 2012 10am to 7pm Join Zuri Wine Tasting when we invade the Santa Barbara’s Vintners festival. This all day excursion will start in Los Angeles; we’ll travel by luxury coach to Los Olivos for an all-day wine tasting outdoor festival. In true festival likeness there will be live music, lots of wine…
SANTA YNEZ, CA – The 100+ members of the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association will herald the arrival of spring and the beginning of the new vintage at their 30th annual Vintners’ Festival on April 21, 2012. The Festival will return to the Santa Ynez Valley on the pastoral grounds of “The Carranza”. “As the…
Not long after interviewing Stillman Brown [aka Swilly Idle, among other things] on the telephone for my recent article about the opening of the Zeppelin Wine Hangar in Morro Bay, I found myself in his vicinity. I asked him if he would be around if I stopped by, and he said it would actually be…
The Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association will once again host its popular “Celebration of Harvest” festival, this year highlighting the amazing variety of food, as well as wine produced in Santa Barbara County . “Harvest is such an exciting time for everyone working here in the Valley” states Michael Larner, President of the Vintners’ Association….