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Santa Barbara’s Haley Street has a new coffee shop, but you better bring your own cup.
Cajé Coffee, 416 E. Haley Street, presents a third wave coffee shop. The first wave sold traditional brew coffee, then came specialty mass coffee such as Starbucks. Now, Cajé offers craft coffee, where there’s a focus on quality and environmental sustainability.
“It’s an original concept,” said the shop’s CEO and general manager, Troy Yamasaki. “We’re trying to introduce something new. We understand it can be inconvenient, but we are trying to establish a new model.”
The shop, owned and operated by Ryan Patronyk, Yamasaki and Sean Sepulveda, is a coffee shop by day and bar by night. Cajé doesn’t offer to-go plastic cups. Instead, it’s a bring-your-own-cup model. Customers can also buy a re-usable cup on-site for $5. The money will be refunded when they return to the store.
The menu offers non-alcoholic coffee “cocktails” with signature drinks including the Burnout, a latte with bourbon pecan syrup, activated charcoal, ginger salt, candied ginger and blackberry. Another one is the Twist, with double-strength cold brew, lemonade, coconut milk foam, and a raspberry ice cube. Maillard’s Folly is an iced latte with macadamia milk, coconut milk and roasted pineapple syrup, among others.
All of Cajé’s coffee is roasted in-house at the original Isla Vista location, which opened in 2004. Cajé’s menu also offers light bites, like avocado toast and ceviches.
In the evening, Cajé transforms into a Prohibition-era themed speakeasy bar called Lab Social. The Haley Street entrance is closed and guests instead enter through an incognito side entrance.
Inside, Cajé features bold tile patterns juxtaposed with natural elements like exposed ceiling beams, rustic wood tabletops, and green plants and vines winding above the bar.
“We’re trying to offer people an experiment that is not your traditional coffee shop,” Yamasaki said. “Our passion and desire is to create an other-worldly experience.”
The new shop is part of a rapid change on Haley Street, which is seeing entrepreneurs move in and renovate spaces, offering services that cater to young professionals and millennials. The street has also been targeted for rental apartment housing development.
Yamasaki said people who drank the coffee as students in Isla Vista can now enjoy the coffee drinks as young professionals in Santa Barbara.
Cajé, by the way, stands for coffee, art, juice and entertainment.
$17-Million Home on the Market in Montecito
Hyatt Riaz, an affiliate agent with the Beverly Hills South office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, and Suzanne Perkins of Compass have listed a Montecito property for $17 million.
The seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 13,932-square-foot estate is on 10 acres, at 815 Cima del Mundo Road.
“Located in the same neighborhood as Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres, this is one of the most amazing estate properties to come on the market in Santa Barbara,” Riaz said in a statement.
“Infused with a distinctive style with classic arches, a red-tile roof and wood-beam ceilings characteristic of the region’s Spanish revivalist architecture, this home offers a perfect blend of luxury with comfort, space with privacy as well as sophistication with elegance. A rarity that is both timeless and elegant, this property is the epitome of Montecito living and truly world-class.”
The main estate includes five bedrooms, six bathrooms, four powder rooms, a living room with a fireplace, library with a fireplace and wood paneling, family room with a fireplace, formal dining room with a fireplace, an office, wine storage room and laundry room. The kitchen features two stainless steel refrigerators, a wine fridge, dual islands and stone countertops.
The master suite boasts a fireplace, walk-in closet and bathroom with a soaking tub and dual sinks. The grounds include terraced gardens, a pool and spa with a cabana, colonnaded courtyards and a north-south tennis court. There’s also a pool house and a guesthouse with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a theater.
New Firm Partner at Santa Barbara Law Firm
Santa Barbara-based Cappello & Noël LLP has named attorney David L. Cousineau as a partner.
“David is an incredibly insightful lawyer with years of experience, common sense and a keen eye to the winning issues in every case,” said Barry Cappello, Cappello & Noël managing partner.
“His work as an associate has been outstanding and we congratulate him now that he is an owner/partner.”
Cousineau joined the firm in 2014 and specializes in lender liability, fraud, business disputes, landowner disputes, inheritance disputes, racial discrimination, cross-border and technical issues, and constitutional matters. Cousineau is a former litigator in Kaye Scholer LLP’s Complex Commercial Litigation Group in Washington, D.C.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and his juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center.
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