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Restaurants & chefs
Openings, reviews, and the people behind the kitchen — reported from the dining room, not the press release.
Food · Travel · Hospitality
Documenting food, travel, and the art of hospitality — from Santa Barbara and beyond.
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Openings, reviews, and the people behind the kitchen — reported from the dining room, not the press release.
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Property features and destination reporting for readers deciding where a weekend is worth spending.
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Considered coverage of retreats, treatments, and the quieter half of travel writing.
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Galleries, studios, and the stages in between — the makers giving a place its character.
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Festivals, openings, and the seasonal calendar worth planning a trip around.
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Shops, non-profits, and family operations that keep a neighborhood worth walking.
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About
Most of my week happens in dining rooms, hotel lobbies, and the occasional treatment room — asking chefs, growers, and innkeepers how they actually do what they do. My work runs in Noozhawk, Santa Barbara City Lifestyle, Ojai Magazine, and Edhat.
What I care about is craft and a sense of place: the reason a dish, a room, or a whole town feels like somewhere in particular.
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