As if opening one restaurant around here weren’t challenging enough, Endwell Hospitality has been working on three—Korean barbecue on the ground floor, fine dining upstairs, and a rooftop bar—in the Palms building in Carpinteria. The process has naturally taken longer than the company expected, so it began looking for opportunities to keep busy in the meantime. “We were thinking about catering, but then we learned that Bar Lou’s owners wanted someone take over the lease,” says founder and CEO Ryan Sohn. “It was definitely a surprise for us. The space and the prime Montecito location were something we couldn’t pass up.”
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