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    Good Food

    A food and beer crawl up the California coast

    Next, we take a short jaunt up the California coast to eat and drink with Allison Costa, who owns Ventura Food Tours and Santa Barbara Tasting Tours . We start in Ventura, for craft beer at Madewest and TopaTopa brewing companies, before heading to Oxnard for brunch at Brasserie Communautaire .

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jan 6, 2017 • 1 min read

    Next, we take a short jaunt up the California coast to eat and drink with Allison Costa, who owns Ventura Food Tours and Santa Barbara Tasting Tours. We start in Ventura, for craft beer at Madewest and TopaTopa brewing companies, before heading to Oxnard for brunch at Brasserie Communautaire. Then Costa takes us to Beacon Coffee in Ojai for a flat white and bite of rosemary shortbread, and to Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone for chicken mole tacos at Mony’s and a slice of tomato, fennel sausage, chile, arugula and mozzarella pizza at the Lucky Penny.

    Music: "Hip Hop Axe" (Instrumental) by Davi Viera

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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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    The full episode

    5 of 6
    Ringing in the Japanese New Year and a trip to the Silk Road
    1. 0:00The market report: Bitter greens
    2. 6:46How to ring in the Japanese New Year
    3. 13:14Samarkand
    4. 23:20Taste of Persia
    5. 40:46A food and beer crawl up the California coastYou’re reading this
    6. 51:34Jonathan Gold eats at Destroyer
    Back to Good Food