HeyJaredMatt Kettmann
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Twenty-Four Hours of S.L.O. Coasting (opens the original)
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Sign up to get Matt Kettmann’s Full Belly Files, which serves up multiple courses of food & drink coverage every Friday, going off-menu from our regularly published content to deliver tasty nuggets of restaurant, recipe, and refreshment wisdom to your inbox The waters of Avila Beach are quite warm these days, even after 11 p.m., which is when my winemaking buddy Mike Sinor and I decided to take a quick dip last Thursday. We’d been staring at the ocean since before sunset from his family’s Shuck
Meet Santa Barbara’s Agave Ambassador (opens the original)
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Jorge Báez is on a mission to change the world’s — and specifically Santa Barbara’s — understanding of mezcal. Much of the motivation comes down to his own upbringing in the rather Americanized city of La Paz in Baja California. “I grew up knowing that mezcal was tequila for the poor people, and if you drink it, you can get blind,” said Baez, who’s leading a tasting at the Museum of Natural History on October 1. “I bought into what I now understand was a bad reputation campaign by the tequila in
Our Pirate Looks at 50 (opens the original)
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If it weren’t for a small garden outside of a one-bedroom apartment on Trigo Road in Isla Vista, Jack Johnson as we know him may never have taken root. During his senior year at UCSB, the Hawaiian-born film studies major moved in with his girlfriend Kim, whom he’d marry a couple years later. Their apartment overlooked an empty lot on the corner of Camino Pescadero, and that’s where they tended to zucchini and huge sunflowers next to a fountain that Jack built from an old bike tire and spray can
Full Belly Files: Hot Dog and Mayonnaise Cocktails at The Mullet? (opens the original)
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Sign up to get Matt Kettmann’s Full Belly Files, which serves up multiple courses of food & drink coverage every Friday, going off-menu from our regularly published content to deliver tasty nuggets of restaurant, recipe, and refreshment wisdom to your inbox When I’m writing about a new establishment, I try to not read too many other articles about the place before making my own observations. But I certainly will scan what’s out there just to have some sense of what I’m getting into, which is how
Ysidro Launches Second Flavor (opens the original)
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When Ysidro launched in 2021, the Montecito-based canned sake spritz brand came out with just one flavor. That was a bold move for founders Alex Dessouky and Monica and Seth Epstein, as most other ready-to-drink, or RTD, companies start with at least a couple of different flavors, if not a half-dozen or so. But it also conveyed confidence in their grapefruit-and-sea salt combo, which flavors the bubbly base of California-grown Junmai Ginjo sake. The drink was indeed good — tasting very real in a
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