I stopped here today for gas and snacks on a long road trip. Since I have my 6 year old with me I…read moretook her in first and asked if they have a restroom. The man behind the counter yelled at us that it was only available if we bought something. I decided to make my purchases across the street, where they were very kind to me and my daughter.

The gas prices are competitive with USA down a couple blocks on Milpas. This station is nestled…read morebetween the homeless shelter and Hamburger Habit. As a consequence even during the middle of the day you likely will be approached by at least one fairly aggressive panhandler. For this reason as a single woman if I'm alone I won't stop here. Once I was even threatened, although the cashier had him removed from the property. This was the second to last time I've been here, once recently my boyfriend and I drove in for gas in the evening. I made sure both doors in the pickup cab were locked and my mini dachshund (who will defend me at all costs) was looking out the window for our protection.

I actually like this gas station quite a bit because it's closer to where I usually end up staying…read morenear State St (the other one is all the way down at the other end ...) and they have a very convenient drive up area on Chapala near major shops. That, paired with the fact that the gas is not astronomical makes this a good place to stop when you're running low after doing a road trip to Santa Barbara. The gas station only has about 4 pumps, and one of them is consistently out of service but at least the other three are fairly fast. I really have trouble waiting for really slow pumps and often don't fill up all the way since it takes like 10 minutes to do 10 gallons or something. There is a nice little Seaside Market attached to this Shell with all the expected amenities you would want in a convenience store.

Absolutely fabulous customer service! The man inside even offered to pump my gas. Despite the…read morerecent robberies, I find that everything is still in stock. The snack selection is great! Stop here on your next gas run!

always good, fresh coffee waiting for me!! good snacks like fresh apples .. not the dead ones ine…read moretends to find in a gas station & l clean restrooms. nice place to stop after a long drive from LAX. try their chapstick .. it's awesome

I was low on gas, so I came here since it was the closest. The gas was expensive. Service was good.read more

I didn't buy gas here; I didn't pay to punch (or punch) Putin here (although maybe I should have);…read moreI didn't purchase anything from this place's Auto Bistro. It's one of those sham convenience stores without an interior bathroom, but instead of an exterior bathroom that's still part of the building or part of a building, they have a deluxe Porta-Potty. Why is it deluxe? Because it has a normal sink. I don't mean a Porta-Potty sink with a tank with bad water pressure; I'm talking an actual sink, as in when you inspect the Porta-Potty from the outside, you can see that they've gone to the trouble of hooking real plumbing up so that the sink has normal running water. Would it have cost them that much more to build a small bathroom? In case you too want to use the loo, it's on the left side of the building when you're facing the front doors and Vladimir Putin, toward the back. It made do in a pinch, but I probably wouldn't stop here again. It's close to the freeway, but it's complicated to get back on it, or at least I found it complicated.

These people with held my roommates paycheck for 2 months and now homeless . The lady with fire red…read morehair who is the manager is verbally abusive and puts her hands on employees . She cusses at customers and people working there . She withholds ur checks while taking care of her own needs . Can care less that a persons livelihood is in the palm of her hands . My roommate has been bullied by this woman . The owner has failed to reprimand this lady . The owner is fully aware of the paychecks being with held since the beginning of December . Do not give business to this place it stinks and the managers attitude stinks miserably .

Went in to get a few bucks of gas in my vehicle. While trying to use my card. The system errors…read moreout. I went in to pay inside, and the clerk was really rude while charging my card. when I went back out to pump gas, the system was frozen and it wouldn't allow any gas to come out. I went back in to inquire with the clerk what to do next and how to get it fixed. she ignored me first. Then she kept saying go away lady get in the car and go away without even giving me my money back or telling me anything. I waited for a minute to see if she would explain what was wrong with the system but she kept ignoring me. Then I inquired about the money that she charged on my account and she's now said nothing got charged just go away lady. This is the second time I go to that gas station and they are the rudest people I have ever encountered in any kind of service industry.

Lowest gas price in Santa Barbara today Vkean has mini mart At Corner of Monticito and Milpassread more

Good place to fill up when in the area. This is a good well run company. They offer fair prices too.read more

Been going here for years. We frequently use the goleta location and padaro lane. Note: Padaro lane…read moretakes credit cards for non account holders. Top tier gas. Priced very competitively.

We took our kids to Mexico a few months back, and one day, I ordered a frozen strawberry margarita…read moreand my toddler immediately said, "I wanna drink that!" I thought, fair enough, and he got a virgin strawberry margarita, setting the precedent that when Mommy and Daddy get special refreshing daytime drinks, Leo B. asks for one, too. Which is why, during a Sunday afternoon stop at M. Special a few doors down, I made a quick trip to this 7-Eleven to buy my son a Slurpee. I think this was my first time buying a Slurpee in my adult life. I hadn't realized there were so many flavors, or that the smallest available size was a medium. I settled on an orange pineapple Slurpee and ran it out to my child. (I'm afraid I didn't spend any more time browsing the 7-Eleven for Yelp review purposes, but I'm guessing it was similar to other 7-Elevens.) Surprise surprise, he loved it. Look, is it the best move to bribe your two-year-old with fluorescent orange sugar ice just so you can drink your beer in peace on a balmy, beautiful afternoon? Yes, absolutely, it is. We did take the precaution of telling him Slurpees were a Santa Barbara only treat (never mind that there's one right next to his school), but really, no regrets.

Anybody who has followed my reviews for any serious amount of time knows that Santa Barbara is my…read morewife and my favorite getaway spot. It's very much our home away from home and where we escape to when we want to decompress. I can safely say that I know State St. pretty well, and it's always interesting to see when businesses are added or deleted from the browsing lineup. I'm confused, though. How is this place not on Yelp already? *scratches head* This 7-11 location has been open for approx 2 years and is located on the corner of State Street and Ortega St, right next to Antique Alley and across the street from the Paseo Nuevo mall. Honestly, almost all 7-11's in the USA are pretty similar. Nothing really makes them stand out. What makes this place shine is its location. As everybody knows, State Street is lined with all sorts of boutique stores, restaurants, coffee shops, etc. And some of them can be pricey. Its also a VERY touristy area. Until recently, State St. had both a Rite Aid and a CVS for people to duck into if they needed snacks or sodas. With Rite Aid closing, however, this 7-11 fills a needed gap. The location is small without being too small, and it's bigger on the inside than it appears. You'll find all the items you'd expect to find here are reasonable prices. And hey... sometimes you just NEED a Spicy Big Bite or a Slurpey in your life, even on posh State St. Am I right? The location is always busy, and surprisingly clean, and the employees are usually friendly. A solid 3 stars for here; but I can't help but toss in a 4th for its super convenient location. This spot is a prime example of why Yelp needs to allow half-star ratings!

This chevron has a decent bathroom and market. The guy that works there was really nice about…read moreletting me use the bathroom right away. It was a good experience.

Their gas machines are faulty. I walked away from the tank while it was auto-filling and it did not…read morestop. It continued to pour gasoline out of my car and all over the ground. When I told the man at the front desk he said it was my fault and started yelling at me. Terrible service, unreliable, likely unsafe and ends up being more expensive because you end up paying for more gas than your tank can hold.

Apparently, The Point Market is a Santa Barbara-area mini-empire. I didn't know that before last…read moreweekend, and I doubt that knowledge will ever be useful, but I'm spreading and immortalizing it forever (or until Yelp dies), and who knows? Maybe some of my readers will find that information useful. The gas is a ripoff, but you wouldn't stop here for gas anyway. The bathrooms are clean, which is probably why you stopped here, especially if you're like me and you didn't get enough sleep so you were downing caffeinated liquids like crazy all through your drive and your bladder isn't what it used to be. Did I mention they're clean? Yes, I did. There are two of them, and they're single-user, so you don't need to worry about waiting for the men's or women's room to free up while the other one sits idle. There's no code; there's no key attached to an oil-funnel. Nope, you have to tell the cashier all the way on the other end of the store that you need to use the bathroom, and he'll open it remotely. The snacks are a ripoff as well, but not as much of a ripoff as the gas. There's a huge selection of everything, so if you're going for a beach outing or park picnic, you can stock up on random stuff here, especially if you're bringing along one of those friends who can't picnic without her 100 Grand or specialty coffee drink or macadamia nuts. Return access to the freeway is also pretty simple, so this might be an ideal place for future planned bathroom stops now that Pea Soup Andersen's in Buellton has closed! (I'm so sad about that.)

For management:…read more Great coffee and location. However 5 mins ago I got a coffee and used 2 cups seemingly glued together, couldn't pull the two cups apart so just used 2 cups as one. Didn't have time today to sit there and wrestle them apart, tho I'm a 200 lb rock climber and it shouldn't have been so hard. At payment was TOLD "I charged you for two cups" by the woman working there. I assumed she meant for two cups (like a 75 cent surcharge for the extra cup) but realized she meant two cups of coffee after. Um. The wrongness of this should be evident, but here's a couple versions that would be less egregious: Even "I'll have to charge you for two cups of coffee if you don't separate the cups." Or better, don't charge a person for two cups of cofffee who got one cup of coffee. This is charging for an empty CUP something like 3000% of the cost of the cup for the cup, and that is extortionate, even if the scale is small. This is absolutely unacceptable policy, if it is policy, and needs to be addressed, whether it is or not. Great location though! Also, "I charged you for two cups" is inaccurate is misleading if you charged me for two coffees. That is the necessary language.

We were driving South on 101 and stopped into this Unocal 76 gas station…read more It's a real pain when you spend $50 to fill up your car, and then they tell you that you can't use their restrooms. The restrooms had a sign stating that they were either closed or out of order. The other thing that I hate about this company is that if you use a credit card to pay for the fuel, they immediately hit your card for $100 when you initially use the pump. Maybe I'm spoiled because I no longer live in California, and the gas stations on the East Coast hit your card for $1 or $2 when you start to fill up. I realize that they claim that they will reverse the fee after the actual charge for the gas goes through, but $100 is ridiculous. Unocal 76 has lost a customer for life.

It used to be a great market coffee smokes. now they…read morenever make the coffee correct mixing up flavors??? my coffee was cold i wanted a refund the kid behind the counter told me to nook it I replied i don,t use microwave ovens then he said just put hot water in it i replied just give me a refund then he said i was being difficult then i said i wanted his name i would talk to his boss in the morning. not good service any moor