Santa Barbara’s Kitchenette Makes Dinner Easy 

Like so many food companies conceived during the pandemic, the frozen dinner delivery service Kitchenette blends convenience with quality, preparing family-sized, one-pan meals of fresh, healthy ingredients that customers merely heat up in their ovens. Since launching last April, Kitchenette added smaller portions aimed at busy couples or single professionals without much time to cook,…

Barbareño Teams with Ojai Valley Brewery for Pairing Dinner

Credit: Silas Fallstitch Upon opening nearly a decade ago, Barbareño’s founders Julian Martinez and Jesse Gaddy aimed to celebrate Central Coast cuisine, a style of direct sourcing and live fire cooking more than 200 years in the making that’s only now getting the broader attention it deserves. Their menu elevates regionally rooted dishes like Santa…