••• An establishment called Beau is opening in the back of the San Marcos Building on State Street (at Anapamu), in the space that was previously Odessa Lounge and Crush Bar & Tap. It’ll have a beer-and-wine license, and I’ve seen it referred to as a “storytelling bar” and “a bar that sells things [and] a shop that pours drinks,” as well as being “for gentlemen of character.” And then there was this: “There’s a new man in town. He smells like cedar, drinks espresso neat, and restores old knives for fun. His name? Beau.”
••• The main restaurant at the Coral Casino, formerly Tyde’s, now has a name, and it’s… The Coral Casino Restaurant by Chef Thomas Keller. The website says it’ll open this summer; more specifically, I hear the goal is June. It’ll be open to the public.
••• Yetz’s Deli in Isla Vista has closed (but the bagel shop is still open). “It wasn’t making sense with the massive drop-off in business that happens in IV and the extra square footage wasn’t pulling its weight,” says owner Dan Dunietz. “It also gives me the ability to focus on what has clearly been a winner—the bagels.” Yetz’s forthcoming Goleta location (in the Target corner of Storke and Hollister) is shooting to open February 1.
••• Sometime this spring, Hawaiian-themed chain Makenna Koffee Company is opening at 6521 Pardall Road in Isla Vista. —Edhat…