Eat & DrinkSanta Maria Style BarbecueSanta Maria Style Barbecue RecipesSanta Maria Style Barbecue CookbookA Beer Lover's Guide to Santa Maria, CAFresh ProduceFamous Santa Maria Strawberries Book A Room Seriously Sweet If there’s anything more satisfying than biting into a perfectly ripe, juicy strawberry, we have yet to find out what that is. And, thanks to our year-round growing season and cool, coastal climate, Santa Maria happens to be home to some of the ripest, juiciest, largest strawberries in the country. Plus, our strawberry fields are replanted annually—producing higher quality fruit with larger yields year after delicious year. With more than 10 strawberry varieties grown in the valley, we distribute our berries worldwide—allowing tastebuds from all over the globe a bite of our home-grown goodness. For locals and visitors to our valley alike, the best place to find Santa Maria-grown strawberries is right here in our beautiful Valley, at roadside stops or weekly farmer’s markets.
MOXIE Cafe Moxie Cafe serves up a selection of tasty, fresh, and healthy options for you and your family. You won’t find a fryer or a soda fountain here—only delicious, healthy treats not laden with extra sugar or fat. Food here just tastes good!
El Pueblito Restaurant Joaquin oversees the operations at his family style, family-run restaurant. His two daughters work the front of the restaurant part time. Two brothers also work there, one manages the fresh, locally grown produce and meat in the kitchen, and the other is a bus boy. Twelve of his restaurant employees, who were there on opening […]
Martian Ranch & Vineyard An eclectic grower of grape varietals, both esoteric and otherwise. Martian Ranch & Vineyard is a young, biodynamically-farmed vineyard on Alisos Canyon Road in Los Alamos where they take farming much more seriously than they do themselves. When Nan Helgeland founded the Martian Ranch & Vineyard in 2007, she wanted to give it a name […]
Firestone Vineyard Putting the Central Coast climate to good use. A vineyard full of family traditions and historic ties to famous entrepreneurs like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison – Harvey S. Firestone’ son Leonard established a family ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley in the early 1970s. He began by planting a vineyard. Soon after, his son […]
November 07 PCPA: The Little Mermaid Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a spectacular holiday production that will amaze families. PCPA will collaborate with director Melissa Rain Anderson (Always…Patsy Cline) and New York City’s 2 Ring Circus to bring breathtaking aerial feats and imaginative theatrical magic to tell the story of Ariel, the beautiful young mermaid who longs to leave her ocean home to […]
November 21 Great American Melodrama - The Holiday Extravaganza November 21 – December 31 See Scrooge find his Christmas spirit in a heart-warming tale of holiday magic, laugh until your sides ache at the zany characters in a fractured fairy tale opera, and celebrate the music of the season in our Holiday Vaudeville Revue. Our holiday triple bill is a very special family tradition designed […]
December 06 Santa Maria Civic Theatre: Dinner With Friends In this contemporary age when couples befriend other couples to find family companions with common ground, Dinner with Friends seeks to explore what happens when one of these romantic pairs breaks down, and the waves that can make across households. Gabe and Karen, collaborators in the industry of food literature and a husband-and-wife duo that […]
December 07 Christmas on the Trail 2019 Wine Passport Celebrate the Season on the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail Your Passport is your ticket to 20, one-ounce pours of wine you can “spend” at 15 participating wineries all weekend. Each winery will serve passport holders snacks like chocolates, holiday cookies and cheese on Saturday. Return Sunday for live music, food trucks, library tastings and more. […]