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California Tacos in Solvang Continues to Innovate

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on May 9th, 2013
Categorized under: Wine & Food
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SantaYnezUncorked.com is a leading resource for Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Barbara Co. real estate and lifestyle Doris Banchik-Moxley, Broker Associate, Sotheby’s International Realty   About Doris and Contact California Tacos Bringing Fresh Food and More to Your Doorstep With a Movie I have to admit that I love California Tacos in Nielsen's Shopping Center off Alamo Pintado in Solvang. You can probably find...Continue Reading.

My Report on the New SY Kitchen, Santa Ynez….Great Food, Great Service!

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on April 28th, 2013
Categorized under: Wine & Food
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SantaYnezUncorked.com is a leading resource for Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Barbara Co. real estate and lifestyle Doris Banchik-Moxley, Broker Associate, Sotheby’s International Realty   About Doris and Contact My First Dinner at SY Kitchen Was Great As promised last Friday, although a day late, here is my report on my dinner at the new Santa Ynez restaurant, S Y Kitchen. If you missed...Continue Reading.

SY Kitchen Opens in Santa Ynez to Great Reviews!

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on April 25th, 2013
Categorized under: Wine & Food
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SantaYnezUncorked.com is a leading real estate resource in the Santa Ynez Valley, addressing this market in a no holes barred, occasionally amusing style. It is brought to you by Doris Banchik-Moxley, Broker Associate of Sotheby’s International Realty, Los Olivos. Doris is a veteran Santa Ynez Valley Realtor, specializing in custom home searches and strategic transactions for Buyers and Sellers of...Continue Reading.

Santa Ynez Valley Moonshine: New Distillery Opens in Buellton

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on March 20th, 2013
Categorized under: Lifestyle, Wine & Food
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SantaYnezUncorked is a leading real estate resource in the Santa Ynez Valley, addressing this market in a no holes barred, sometime amusing style. It is brought to you by Doris Banchik-Moxley, Broker Associate of Sotheby’s International Realty, Los Olivos. Doris is a veteran Santa Ynez Valley Realtor, specializing in custom home searches and strategic transactions for Buyers and Sellers of...Continue Reading.

New Hot Santa Ynez Restaurant Rumored to Open in April: SY Kitchen

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on March 6th, 2013
Categorized under: Wine & Food
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SY Kitchen to Open in Santa Ynez By Owners of the Hot Toscana Restaurant in Brentwood Many of my readers are as, if not more, interested in the Santa Ynez Valley restaurant scene as they are in Santa Ynez Valley real estate. I get it...love great food to wash down with great wine. So here is the latest rumored addition to...Continue Reading.

Ballard Chef Budi Kazali’s Weekly Cooking Show on KEYT “The Inn Crowd”

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on August 31st, 2012
Categorized under: Lifestyle, Wine & Food
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Prized Santa Ynez Valley Chef Has Weekly Cooking Show on KEYT 3: "The Inn Crowd" Budi Kazali, the chef and owner at the Ballard Inn, is being featured on a weekly cooking show, The Inn Crowd with Budi Kazali, on KEYT 3, the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara. Budi is arguably one of the best and most creative chefs in the...Continue Reading.

Santa Ynez Food News: Ranch & Reata Roadhouse and the New Red Barn

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on July 26th, 2012
Categorized under: Wine & Food
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Will the New Red Barn be Serving Cowboy Cuisine? or Even Cowboys? For those of you who are devotees of the Nichols Brothers (Mattei's Tavern, now Sides Hardware & Shoes), you probably know that they are taking over the Santa Ynez Valley classic, The Red Barn. .The Red Barn is one of the Santa Ynez Valley's oldest restaurants, with a real...Continue Reading.

Foodies, Check Out “The Shack” in Los Alamos (Just 10 Minutes from The Santa Ynez Valley)

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on July 6th, 2012
Categorized under: Lifestyle, Wine & Food
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"The Shack" Opens in Los Alamos The Santa Ynez Valley is certainly becoming a foodie destination, which is hardly surprising given our tremendously delicious wines. My bud, Natalie Werk, who, with her husband, owns a fabulous 25 acre farm in Los Alamos,  just called to tell me that she has opened "The Shack" which offers a just-picked array of organic vegetables...Continue Reading.

Santa Ynez Valley Restaurant Scene: What’s Happening

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on June 2nd, 2012
Categorized under: Lifestyle, Wine & Food
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Round Two for the Nichols Brothers As some of you may have heard, the Nichols Brothers will be opening the Santa Ynez Valley classic, The Red Barn, shortly. The sale was completed within the past few weeks, and I understand that the restaurant is being spruced up. We are not expecting a huge overhaul here, despite the worn state of this...Continue Reading.

How to Lose Belly Fat in the Santa Ynez Valley

Published by: Doris Banchik
Published on May 9th, 2012
Categorized under: Events and Family Fun, Lifestyle, Wine & Food

I really shouldn't comment on this, but based upon the obsession with belly fat on Facebook and Google, I decided that it was on a lot of folk's minds.Then again, I might have googled "belly fat" once, and these sites are not letting me forget it (do you think they can see me?). So if belly fat is something that...Continue Reading.