Rooted in sustainability, community, and seasonality, Santa Barbara has a new gourmet food service that brings chef-crafted, locally sourced meals straight to your door. Local chefs Isa Bourbon and Rachel Hunter’s Bite Club brings a fresh approach to dining, where high-quality meals made with local ingredients meet ecofriendly practices.
Bite Club came into fruition when Bourbon and Hunter joined forces. Having both been private chefs for years — Bourbon also used to run Wishbone Wellbeing, a bone broth business — they were doing a lot of private sector work. “We wanted to turn outward toward our community,” Bourbon said. “We were both very excited about supporting a larger number of people versus just one or two families or individuals. That was really exciting to us, and it’s been really fun.”
There are two meal plans offered: an individual plan (“The Me Plan”) bringing one serving in the form of three dinners, three lunches, and a snack for $225 a week, or the family plan (“The We Plan”), which brings four servings per meal for three dinners and a snack for $450 per week.
Every Wednesday, members receive a cooler bag with freshly made meals packed in heat-safe glassware along with reheating instructions. The following week, they leave the containers outside for pickup, and Bite Club switches them out for new meals. This system emphasizes no single-use plastic, keeping sustainability at the forefront of the service…