Gala This bar on State Street comes from the team behind a restaurant in Barcelona, and definitely looks the part. The bar opens directly onto the patio, the dining room is lined with Spanish ...

Shalhoob said. Then, later this year, the family business will open their new restaurant in the Magnolia Shopping Center. “We are going to turn the Goleta location into an indoor/outdoor dining ...

Santa Barbara-born Habit Burger & Grill was considered to have the best burger in town for the second year in a row, ...

Santa Barbara-born Habit Burger & Grill was considered to have the best burger in town for the second year in a row, ...

Indeed, the dimly lit restaurant with its red-leather booths and 1,500 photographs of Santa Barbara history feels comfortably down-home. It feels even cozier with a dirty martini in the belly.

It has become the clearest destination-dining draw in Santa Barbara County. Dinner is a more formal prix-fixe affair, but a road-trip lunch is the power move.

One of Santa Barbara’s most iconic restaurants is coming back — and at one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful locations. The Harbor Restaurant on Stearns Wharf is set to reopen Wednesday.