GETTING HERE:…read more Located in the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport. REVIEW: This is a cute, little shop that has a wide variety of items for purchase. Per usual, you have your snacks and waters and magazines etc., but they also carry local/speciality items. While waiting for my flight I spent a few minutes here and found a book for purchase by Richard Senate, called, "Ghosts of the California Missions". Can't wait to finish it! Service was unremarkable, but such is to be expected. Prices were high, cough cough, hi Santa Barbara, cough cough. There aren't many options in the SB Airport for quick items, so this is your only chance. I'd recommend checking them out, if not for their local items. :)

Hi. I bought these earrings from your local shop on Monday for my daughter before flying back to…read morePA. One of them broke today. Do you know who makes them? I would like to see if I can replace the broken one. She loves the earrings! The sign near them in your shop said they were made locally

Menchaca Chocolates is truly a chocolate lover's dream. A hidden gem located at the Mercado on…read moreupper state. From rich dark chocolate to creamy oat milk and white chocolate, Menchaca Chocolates crafts every bite with care. They also offer sampler boxes. On my visit, I picked up the chocolate covered spicy mangos. Who knew dark chocolate covered mangos would be so addictive. Highly recommend! The habanero sea salt is what gives it a little kick, but it's not too spicy where it burns your mouth. I also bought a chocolate bar covered in toffee. They offer chocolate and art workshops; where you can emerse your senses in cacao beans grinding, nibs roasting, fluid chocolate hardening, and create your own chocolate bar! The choices of chocolate are dark, oat milk and white chocolate. With over 40 toppings to choose from and customize your own chocolate bar. I'm looking forward to taking a class here soon!

I think my biggest issue here was just in the way the chocolate workshop is described as a "make…read moreyour own chocolate bar." I've done chocolate workshops where we literally got cacao beans from bods, roasted and dried them, them mixed with other ingredients to make chocolate, this is not that. This is really an arts and crafts project where you just happen to take home some chocolate at the end. That being said, the chocolate base is quite good, from the dark chocolate (which I normally don't like), through the milk chocolate, and the white chocolate. Each of the base is already made, then they give you a ton of toppings to customize your own bar. I will say I wish they would have suggested us to push in the topping a bit more into the mold, as much of the toppings came off when we ate them later. After this 10 min process of customizing your bar, the rest of the time is spent just decorating your box. They do have an extensive collection of art materials, it was just a bit of a let down that it felt like 90% crafts. Beyond that, the service could have been better. It was very stand off-ish. We ended up decorating our box for what felt like an hr cause no one came to tell us our chocolate was ready. And it just really felt like we had no idea what was going on throughout the process. Staff was nice, just not very informative.

Lane Farms is the perfect place to get your Christmas Tree, and poinsettias, and some sweet and…read moretasty treats. Cute farm atmosphere, with assorted donkeys, pigs and goats to talk to. And a very friendly staff to help you get prepared for Christmas. Thank you Becky and John for helping get this festive holiday started. Will definitely be back to also visit their produce shack.

Stopped by on a road trip in late September and the pumpkin patch they had was one of the best up…read morekept farms I've seen! Not to mention fresh produce, perfect pumpkins and the best corn maze next to cute animals. A MUST stop place in the fall!

Love this Chocolate store! The branch in State St. closed that is why it is good that there is one…read morein Goleta. This store in Goleta is big and clean and not that packed with customers when we visited the store earlier, Love their Rocky Road Chocolate, this comes in a slab and sliced into pieces. It is soooooo good with all the nuts and marshmallows. Good to pair with coffee or tea!

This See's Candies is a little tucked away but easy to access and plenty of parking. Upon entering,…read morei was greeted by two staff and one presented me with a free sample. So sweet! They asked if i needed any help and were so friendly. The store itself was clean and appeared organized and well-stocked. Such a great experience here!

The produce was overall nice but I had a negative experience with being charged incorrectly and…read morethen being spoken to condescendingly, as if I had made the error. Everyone makes mistakes but speaking down to someone is not what I want in a business.

I was fortunate enough to walk by Plow to Porch Organics during a tasting event during my vacation…read morein Santa Barbara. It was an unexpected treat! The owners and staff were amazing people. They invited us to come in and taste two salads from a cook book signing event. Both delicious salads were organic with apples, kale and other local produce. I am certain that this is the most healthy thing that I ate in this town. Their timing was just perfect too, we had just walked down to some local happy hours and were searching for something healthy to eat. Plow to Porch has a great store with a great variety of organic food for retail sale, but their main business is produce boxes. Farmers sell their very best peak season goods to the loyal customers who commit to a box subscription. Both parties win, customers get to experience a nice variety of local crops without the hassle of shopping. Farmers win because it reduces the day to day drama of selling the produce.

I've been an SGO subscriber for about 6 months and I love this organic produce service. I pick up…read moremy box on Wednesdays next to Lighthouse Coffee on the Mesa. I get the regular box with an add-on bag of mushrooms and every other week, a dozen eggs. There's kale almost weekly, which is the one veggie I don't really like, but it's still working for me. My neighbor, the vegan, loves kale and so every week, I redirect the kale to the vegan. In return, the vegan keeps gifting me wonderful things that she's growing, like passionfruit and celery. Yesterday, it was Santa Rosa plums! So, while I can't stand kale, it's still working for me to have it in the box!!! It's summer as I write and the SGO tomatoes have been spectacular. Tomatoes are my marooned-on-an-island food, and being from the south, I'm picky about my tomatoes. This week, there were 3 big yellow heirlooms in the box, which is perfect for my gerdy husband and his need for low-acid produce. In addition, there were about 25 medium to giant cherry tomatoes that were the sweetest, juiciest mouth-sized morsels ever. No salt needed. Hubby and I have been snacking on them straight outta the bowl for 2 days. Other notables in this week's organic box were beautiful broccoli, red leaf lettuce, onions, 3 gorgeous deep red peppers, 2 cukes, carrots, and a nice supply of sweet, juicy strawberries. I have to mention how wonderful it is to have unusual fresh mushrooms each week. I used to buy portobellos weekly, but now I'm using shitakes, maitakes, oysters, lion's mane, and other cool varieties in our soup. And come spring, I can't wait for a weekly stash of chanterelles to arrive again! It's also super easy to manage the SGO orders online. I've been out of town a few times since subscribing and it has been super easiy to login and stop my order for a week. And if you can't figure it out, it's easy to email Carolyn, who is incredibly responsivle and makes communication a breeze. Another thing I love about this service is that Carolyn writes a weekly blog about how things are going/growing at the Givens Farm. It was interesting, for example, to read about how the rains this year affected the strawberries and other produce. In the blog, she lists what each week's box will include, so you can be thinking ahead about what you're going to do with a spaghetti squash, leeks, fennel, or yams. Carolyn typically throws in a recipe with each blog for something in the box. I hope to be able to subscribe to SGO for a long time. Hubby and I are surely enjoying their combination of delicious organic produce and world-class service each week.

Top tier veggies and fruit delivered on time, with respect, each week. Who could complain!…read more A high quality organic subscription every household should consider. 5 stars

This place was overall fantastic. I wish I could have ordered a seafood tower but since I couldn't…read morethe combo of everything was really a good pick. 3 different kind of oysters- all fresh and sweet perfectly with the cocktail sauce and Minette. The Santa Barbra rock crab claws were good as well. The calamari was a smidge over fried but good We had blacked cod that was bomb.com and shared some chowder and she was THICK and Delicious!! Service was good! Outdoor seating was plentiful.

The employee taking my order was extremely friendly and delightful to speak with. She was helpful…read morein explaining the menu options and the different oysters of the day. Really enjoyed the fresh oysters here. The smallest, most expensive one (they had a few different ones that day so I tried one of each) was understandably the tastiest and creamiest of the bunch. The other ones were good too, and all of them had a salty brine on them. They also provided some lemon wedges, marinara (?) sauce, and hot sauce. The fried soft-shell crab burger was interesting to try once, not particularly my taste but if you like fried soft-shell crab it could be great for you. I would like to come back, especially for the fresh oysters. Hoping to try some other menu items next time.

I am attempting to grow some vegetables and I am completely clueless but the staff at Island Seed &…read moreFeed thoroughly answered all my questions and gave me suggestions of some great products. They seem very knowledgeable and from what I saw, everything looks very reasonably priced!

I love this store and everyone here especially Matt he's so knowledgeable about growingcomposting,…read morepet foods and going Green . Here is where I can find my favorite brand of dog and cat food Evangers 100% OrGaNic

I think I just found the best breakfast burrito thus far. I usually most always make my own meals…read moreat home but in the situation where you're pressed for time and there's no time for meal prep, i go to what's quick and my yet healthier choice. That was Bristol farms brisket breakfast burrito. OMG. Very Large and full of meat, eggs, potatoes and flavor. Great register personnel with great service. The place is always clean and inviting.

Racist Staff - Shopping while Asian…read more This male staff member didn't want to help me bag my items even though he saw me drop items on the floor. He saw me, continued to walk away and put away boxes then when the white customers came, he immediately went to attend to them. Also there was a female staff with curly long brunet hair who made me feel like she thought I was going to seal while I kept walking between isles because it's my first time here. Monitoring robot with camera was following me around too. After spending nearly $200 here I felt this place was: Prejudice Very deprecating Very unprofessional We cannot change your character, but I can make you see how cruel your hate is