Cali Coast Wine Country
Spring | New roots. Spring brings them every year, along with some delicacies that can only be enjoyed during these warming days…like fresh fava beans. Spring is the time these legumes behave, and taste, more like fresh new peas than later in the year after they mature, when they firmly join the bean clan (mostly …
Summer’s Don’t-Miss Dish in Edible Santa Barbara Magazine Jan 2016: The restaurant at Mattei’s Tavern is currently closed. It’s available for events and accommodations, and will reopen the restaurant in Spring 2018. What started as an experiment in cooking California’s signature fruit quickly became Chef Robbie Wilson‘s signature dish. The Grilled Avocado with Ponzu sauce …
Industrial Eats owner/Chef Jeff Olsson has been cooking from locally sourced, organic ingredients long before “farm-to-table” was born. In the late 80s, deep in Amish farming country in Pennsylvania, Tuscarora Organic Growers co-operative took root, supplying restaurants in the Washington D.C. area with locally grown, organic produce. This co-op helped keep small farms afloat by coordinating crop production …
Chef Augusto Caudillo cooks food the way his grandmother did: from scratch, over several days if needed, with local ingredients and a nod of respect to people in his family. And like his grandmother, Caudillo’s notion of family extends to customers, local growers and mentors as well as actual relations. Caudillo ran Scratch Kitchen in …
Spring | At the helm of Plenty on Bell is long-time Los Alamos chef Jesper Johansson, who has cooked on this street since 1999. A native of Sweden, he’s gained a large local following with his down-to-earth dishes and scrumptious breakfasts. At Plenty on Bell, Johansson focuses on local, farm-to-table comfort food. Dishes on the …
Fall’s Don’t-Miss-Dish in Edible Santa Barbara magazine With items like breakfast pizza fritta, shakshuka eggs, housemade levain breads and seafood galore, it’s difficult to pick a dish from the new weekend brunch menu at Jane at the Marketplace in Goleta. After 8 years in the downtown Santa Barbara location, Jane expanded to this outpost and …
