If the Santa Barbara coastline is the American Riviera, Montecito is its St. Tropez. This tiny beach town is known for its celebrity residents, jaw-dropping mansions, beautiful beaches and elevated dining scene. Despite being a mere 10 minutes away from Santa Barbara’s bustling State Street, it feels like its own world entirely. The local restaurant landscape has grown over the years, and now restaurateurs Brandon Boudet and Warner Ebbink are bringing Bar Lou, a French Riviera-inspired restaurant focusing on farm-to-table cuisine made with locally sourced ingredients, straight to Coast Village Road.

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Chef Boudet and Ebbink, the team behind L.A.’s Little Dom’s and Carpinteria’s Little Dom’s Seafood, didn’t initially set out to open a restaurant in Montecito, and were instead focusing on a larger, ongoing project down in Ojai. However, once they got word that Oliver’s, a vegan restaurant on Coast Village Road, was closing, they knew taking over the space was too good........

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