In April I announced that Timbers restaurant at 10 Winchester Canyon Road in Goleta will reopen. Plans include an incubator kitchen, a local Deli Market & Pie Shop that will feature all local produce, wine, cheeses, honey, baked goods, pies and products made by local artisan producers only found in Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria and Summerland. The main dining hall will be recrafted to bring back the family-style dining of the past, offering family music and entertainment. I reported that the neighboring farm will be replanted with pumpkins, lettuce, and organic produce to be served in the on the property. The farm will offer “pick your own” tours and have livestock for the kids.
Reader Charlotte let me know that things keep moving along at Timbers:
“The Timbers remodel is shaping up. There is a new asphalt parking lot, a big vegetable garden. Things are looking great and lots of hammering is going on inside. This is really exciting for us skeptical locals out here. There is hope for our beloved Timbers! – Charlotte.”
While stopping by to check things out I noticed that the roadside Timbers sign has scaffolding and is in the process of being refurbished.
Nice. I was in disbelief but it’s looking promising.
This concept is workable but” me thinks” to much competition elsewhere to make it sustainable as it’s far out of the way and the population density is not enough to support the narrow focus, though I do hope it succeeds.
My life has been about service, primarily food & beverage for 40 years in SB. My thought is that due to the Timbers’ construction of pier material from the one of the few attacks on the US mainland by the Japanese in WW2 that includes bullet holes, visible inside the establishment, just might be a selling point accompanied by vintage photos were available in a framed photo gallery near the entry or elsewhere but prominent.
With the expansive parking lot and gas station next door this could pull RV’rs, who are predominantly part of the “great generation” and “boomers” interested in history off Hwy 101.
The concept will require a great deal of marketing in the right direction but I’m convinced it would work.
Just Say’in.
I really like what L Davis offered as ideas to bring in customers. The vintage photos like Harry’s has all over are very appealing. The Nugget has some great photos and everyone likes to look at them. I hope the owners read the comments and put them to use!
The ole timey places bring nostalgia to the large population of baby boomers. We like history! family and there is a lot of us in the age group. I hope they can model after some very successful places like Cracker Barrel, but bring in nostalgia from the west coast. Good luck.
I ate at this place a few times during the year before it closed (my co-workers were crazy about it, but I hadn’t been until that year.)
It was…well, it was gross. I’m sorry, but it was dirty. The food was mediocre but it wasn’t the type of place that got my appetite up. A smelly restaurant, dirty tables, dirty glasses and silverware and plates just isn’t my thing.
It was literally the type of place that makes me rant about how we need a publicly visible inspection rating like virtually every other county in California. I would doubt that it would have passed inspection or gotten an A rating at that point in time. I wouldn’t really consider going back to a new version, but if the same people are involved, I wouldn’t hold out hope that it would be sanitary.
http://www.independent.com/news/2015/sep/03/new-supper-club-theater-comes-goleta/