Costa Kitchen News Today

The historic oceanfront Mar Monte Hotel is hosting 'Art After Dark' Tuesday night from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Executive Chef Sean Conway joined your Morning News to tell us about the event!

The beautiful beach city of Santa Barbara is often called the American Riviera thanks to its gorgeous shoreline, historic charm and laid-back culture. It's also home to some phenomenal hotels ranging from historic hideaways to residential-style resorts. Here are the nine best hotels in Santa Barbara.

A new hotel restaurant is coming soon to the ground-floor space at the Four Seasons Embarcadero — the hotel formerly known as the Loews Regency which is not actually on the Embarcadero, but at 222 Sansome.

With Mother's Day just around the corner, Mar Monte Hotel executive chef, Gunnar Plantar, joined News Channel 3-12 for a cooking demo.

Eddie Sanchez There’s a surprising new restaurant to know about in Arcadia this week, as the Le Méridien Pasadena Arcadia hotel prepares to open its anchor restaurant Mélange to the world. The project is centered around the food of chef Makoto Tanaka, a Japanese native and longtime Angeleno who opened Chinois on Main with Wolfgang Puck before emerging as the executive chef of Spago pre-2000. Tanaka also ran his popular namesake restaurant Mako for more than a decade in Beverly Hills, before...