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An Update About Beachside Café While Eating Sichuan Food
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As someone who lives about five minutes from Goleta Beach, I’m extremely excited to see what happens to the former Beachside Café. It’s such an iconic location with so much potential to be a hangout for people of all ages, and the new ownership team seems to have their hearts and minds moving in good directions.
I wrote the first article about their initial plans for the place back in October 2021 — I actually wrote about it again in that week’s Full Belly Files, giving some personal context to the spot — and I’ve been watching some construction at the location while walking my dog there on the regular. Back in April, having not seen a ton of obvious progress — especially since early predictions were that Sea Legs would open as soon as May — I emailed the project’s mastermind, Omar Khashen, to see what’s up.
