••• Seoulmate Kitchen has soft-opened at the Santa Barbara Public Market, with a grand opening—including three days of specials—planned for next weekend. To refresh your memory, the “café side of Seoulmate Kitchen offers an artisanal, small-batch approach to Korean-inspired café fare,” while the restaurant counter “showcases dishes heavily influenced by Korean flavors and traditional dishes.” And in other Seoulmate Kitchen news, the food menu it devised for Cooney’s bar (below) is now live.
••• “Siam Street Food recently opened its doors at 425 State Street [Gutierrez/Haley] in downtown Santa Barbara—the former location of Zen Yai Thai Cuisine.” —Edhat
••• “Longtime local Japanese restaurant Shintori Sushi closed last month at 3001 State Street.” —Restaurant Guy
••• Odessa Lounge appears to have closed, reports M. Its website is no longer in operation, and Yelp says it’s permanently closed…