••• Dart Coffee Co.‘s new café at Linden Square is a welcome addition to downtown Carpinteria. There are baked goods, but more substantial food is a month or so off. If the tables outside are occupied, you can access the courtyard—locked from the street until later in the day—from a door near the restrooms.
••• The restaurant that Jesse Gaddy and Julian Martinez of Barbareño are opening with the team behind Hearth Homes and Hearth Hospitality at The Upham hotel has a name: “Bistro Amasa (pronounced ah-may-sa) is a neighborhood bistro where old-world technique meets bold, California-driven creativity. It’s located inside the historic Upham Hotel, built in 1871 by Amasa Lincoln—a cousin of Abraham Lincoln—and the oldest continuously operating hotel in California.”
••• Some follow-up details about Arnie’s, the bar that Arnie Sturham is opening on the roof of Linden Square: it will not serve food, and because of the liquor license, only ages 21 and over will be allowed. Sturham also says there may eventually be some live music, but not at the scale of his former venue on Bainbridge Island, and that he’s hoping to open in November.
••• Sweetgreen really is coming to the Carl’s Jr. on Calle Real in Goleta, says Noozhawk. There’s a rendering of the proposed redo of the building, which is terribly drab…