Breakfast at Alphie's - General Tiki

T Trader_Rick Member Santa Barbara, CA Joined: Oct 08, 2002 Posts: 155	T Trader_Rick Posted posted on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 4:06 AM Hey everyone. Just thought I would mention my own "discovery" in the Santa Barbara, CA, area (Goleta, roughly 15 mins. N. of SB, to be precise). Santa Barbara, once proud home of a Trader Vic's, still has at least one old tiki restaraunt! That restaraunt is Alphie's, located at 5725 Hollister Ave in Goleta, about 90 mins north of LA. Alphie's is a little odd, in that the current owners only serve breakfast and lunch and there is no booze. I know most of you are saying "No booze?! Well, MAYBE I'll go to this place if I ever have any other reason to go to Santa Barbara." But I am just glad that there is an old school tiki eatery in my town. I've lived here for about 15 years and I never knew it was a tiki place until I just walked in one day. Sorry, I don't have pictures (no digital camera yet and no working scanner, either), but since most of you live in LA, maybe somebody could come up and take pictures of the place. In fact, who snuck in to that one guy's back yard to take pictures? Or was that a joke? Anyway, I already told Otto of Tiki News and James (bigbrotiki?) of the Tiki Bar Review Pages, so now I thought I'd tell all of you. Pass it along, I don't want this place to be remodeled or shut down or something! Trader Rick [email protected]

Hey everyone. Just thought I would mention my own "discovery" in the Santa Barbara, CA, area (Goleta, roughly 15 mins. N. of SB, to be precise). Santa Barbara, once proud home of a Trader Vic's, still has at least one old tiki restaraunt! That restaraunt is Alphie's, located at 5725 Hollister Ave in Goleta, about 90 mins north of LA. Alphie's is a little odd, in that the current owners only serve breakfast and lunch and there is no booze. I know most of you are saying "No booze?! Well, MAYBE I'll go to this place if I ever have any other reason to go to Santa Barbara." But I am just glad that there is an old school tiki eatery in my town. I've lived here for about 15 years and I never knew it was a tiki place until I just walked in one day. Sorry, I don't have pictures (no digital camera yet and no working scanner, either), but since most of you live in LA, maybe somebody could come up and take pictures of the place. In fact, who snuck in to that one guy's back yard to take pictures? Or was that a joke?
Anyway, I already told Otto of Tiki News and James (bigbrotiki?) of the Tiki Bar Review Pages, so now I thought I'd tell all of you. Pass it along, I don't want this place to be remodeled or shut down or something!
Trader Rick
[email protected]

Post #10994 by Trader_Rick on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 4:06 AM