santa barbara, ca

is the cajun kitchen still around? serious good times there 15 years ago.

yeah it is w/ a buncha locations

i will be here from jan 12-25, let's party/see dead people.

Any given Saturday night in Isla Vista they'll be one and the same.

btw i am only briefly passing through LA on this trip now ned, but thanks for responding in the LA thread

pretty scared that I'm gonna die sometime in the jan 12-25 interval now. please pass over me santa barbara death angel caek. I will put the goat's blood on the door mantel, etc.

These days I'm giving a tour of the local "Fieri Hot Spots" for extra cash. The tour includes food from those places featured in Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and ends with frosted tips at Aveda.

wait where was on ddd

Norton's, some fish n' chips place that was open for all of 1 year before Guy soiled it, and some Mexican place on upper state that I've never heard of.

There's enough good mexican food that I can believe it's good, though. I'm somewhat glad he didn't just go to super rica, even though it seems to fit the show perfectly.

yeah milpas makes a lot more sense than anything downtown

true. I live over by the bowl, so I am biased toward milpas.

including los agaves, the cheaper evil offspring of los arroyos

I was in sb like two weeks ago, state st is getting so depressing

it's shifting towards super super high end and super super low end stores at the same time

sorta a microcosm of america I guess

ha, that description is kind of true. but I learned from this thread that you grew up here, so a bit of hometown depression is natural. you should check out el cielito next time you're in town. it opened in la arcada and is the best new thing imo.

oh yeah I looked at it curiously

according to http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/best_of_sb/ , 2012's best korean restaurant in town is "New China"

chumash casino should have everything you want and more

haha unless you want a mojito

Tower of Power on Jan. 17 at the Chumash

caek should get funkifized

my favourite eats over the weekend was whail tail deli: http://whale-tail-deli.com/default.aspx. cheap for sb, and hearty fare indeed.

xp, two dead people in four days has to be some kind of record, right. central california is perilous.

― caek, Monday, January 12, 2009 11:25 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this place is gone, btw. you killed it too. ;_;

good thing i didn't get the job there i made the shortlist for last year.

is ucsbs astronomy good?

it's small for a UC astro dept (cf. UCSC, which is probably 5 times bigger?) so it has gaps because so few faculty, but it's very good

+ it has the kavli, which is a v big deal for theoretical physics

one sure does hear eddie vedder's into the wild ost regularly in this town

No deaths yet this time but still a couple of days to go

restaurant turnover seems fast. any good new places places to eat/drink walking distance of say state and castillo?

So you mean between state and Castillo? They are parallel I think. You mean on state by the Castillo exit off of 101?

Or maybe you meant Carrillo?

Or maybe you meant Carrillo?

otm

I like Cielito, which is nearby in 'La Arcada.' Arlington Tavern is a new place up state 3 blocks and to the left (toward chapala). I've not been there, but I've heard good things. Cadiz is a good new Mediterranean place down State a bit from Carrillo. Scarlett Begonia is good for breakfast/brunch. If you just want a beer and a burger type thing, a place called Eureka!Burger opened in the paseo nuevo mall area a bit down state st.

There's also the French Table on Anapamu by the courthouse

thanking you.

Still haven't found a bar I really like here. I was enjoying the press room until someone put kasabian on the juke box and then a television programme called 'the banter zone' was on the tv very loud. Elsie's is a bit crusty.

haha elsie's is very crusty. I liked it for awhile, but the last time there some biker dude was talking loudly about how the Newton Massacre was a grand plan from Obama to take his guns away

I'll be grabbing drinks with some photonics grad students on Friday to celebrate a guy in our group graduating and moving on to intel. Let me know if you wanna join up.

Hah yes Elsie's reminds me more of the uk way more than any of the pub style places. It's kind of like a perfect mixture of Austin TX and Bristol. Is 'crusty' a widely understood word here?

Unfortunately I have to be back in lol angeles on Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOGUD3g454

^pauly shore in encino man is my source for 'crusty' and 'cruster'

crusty = like crust punks?

the bartender at The Blue Agave looks like Scott Stapp btw. could be worth the walk.

lovely weather today

Yeah this rain is ridiculous. It keeps stopping for a bit, tricking me into going outside without my raincoat, and then starting again.

I get an email from the building manager whenever it's supposed to rain here along the lines of "weather models predict RAIN this weekend, please close your office windows and secure your bunkers from the RAIN"

santa barbarians also drive very slowly on the 101 in the rain, as if their 911 carreras would glide right off the highway because of a little rain

i did not pack for this

No deaths yet this time but still a couple of days to go

― caek, Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:01 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw a v serious looking bike accident today : (

That shit was LA unless you're playing me d00d

haha yes it was in echo park actually so it's not technically another SB fatality for me.

I tried to go to eureka burger on my last night btw but it was heaving via a live band in which the lead singer was wearing a trilby. I went instead to a place on state near velvet jones and the adult store, called sth like sana or para or rasa or something. Pretty good.

oh man. my apologies for nearly mraz-ing you. I wasn't aware that eureka burger had live music.

I've never been to the place you ended up. I've been meaning to check it out. I think it used to be a burger place called Momma Donna. Momma Donna had a peanut butter and bacon burger on the menu that was pretty good. But the turnaround has been very fast as both you and iatee have noted.