Taco Man Wedo here Food Discoveries and more . . …read more This is my second review. Yesterday, my Schnauzer Lola and I had a special day in Carpenteria & Ventura. Food: Rori's has the best tasting ice cream going on the Central coast and surrounding areas. I've been to the Ventura & Arroyo Grande locations and they are fantastic as well. They use high quality ingredients and you cannot go wrong with whatever you decide to order. They actually have chunks in their ice cream, unlike the overrated Handels. However, that's another story for another time. One of my personal favorites is the Pistachio Ice cream loaded with delicious nuts. The chocolate peanut butter is fantastic and the chocolate with chunks of fudge brownies throughout the frozen masterpiece. Muy Delicious! Service: The service is fantastic and they greet you with a smile and they are very accommodating and very dog friendly. Ambiance: The ambiance is not the greatest here and very small. It is a shared location with a Mexican restaurant. However, you're going here for delicious ice cream. Furthermore, they have tables set up outside on the sidewalk with umbrellas and it is usually shaded here with dog friendly people always walking by. I would like to see them eventually get their own stand alone place similar to Ventura with room to move around. I would give this place overall a 4.5 review due to ambiance. However, on Yelp they get 5 stars because half's don't exist. . It would be a sin to give them 4 stars here. 5 stars all the way. Rori Trovato has empire in the making. May God bless this place substantially. Cheers my friends!

To me, this is the best ice cream in the world…read more The way I know this is because: it could not be better. It's the same reason I know Barry Bonds is the best hitter I've ever seen. One day the world will understand what I say to be true -- one day, Rori's will have its day in the sun. It's Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y in all caps. It's everything I could ever want in an ice cream. My favorite flavors are chocolate ice chunk, banana brown sugar, and salted caramel. 100/100 score. If you know, you know. P.S. Rori's makes McConnell's look like child's play. Many will disagree. But what can I say, I have a supremely well-refined palate.

Yumm salted caramel latte and hot chocolate for my 7 year…read more Nice staff Clean Patio seating to relax

A friend recommended this coffee shop so o had to check it out. Ticked away behind a retail shop…read moreyou will this small coffee shop. In the weekend you'll know you found the spot if you miss the sign by the line of people at the door. Don't be discouraged by the line as it moves relatively fast. The shop consist of straight forward coffee drinks and a small menu perfect for breakfast. Prices are standard coffee shop prices. I ordered a matcha and was quite pleased but it went down in so quickly. Ask for some honey with your match, as it makes all sorts of much better. As for sitting: there is a small area inside with tables. Plus tables outside with umbrellas or a rent. Nice to sit outside when it's cooler out or in the morning before the sun comes out. This place is a good alternative to chains. Support local places.

My wife and I enjoy Yummy Yogurt about once a week. The yogurt is tasty and refreshing and there's…read morea nice variety of toppings which are always fresh. They do have vegan options. The brownies are particularly good, because the owner's wife bakes them herself. The owner is often there making sure everything runs smoothly and the store is kept nice and clean. He has a great sense of humor and is very personable which helps create "the vibe" that many try to achieve. It has a charming small town feel, and it's no surprise we see many regulars coming in. Definitely one of our favorite places to hang out in Carpinteria.

Fresh cut fruit daily, it's amazing. Such good quality of toppings!…read moreGreat variety of flavors too.

This railroad side coffee shops is one of my highlights from my stay in Carpinteria…read more Santa Barbara Hives is dedicated to the bees. For every purchase, they plant a Mangrove tree in Madagascar - the tree that produces a rare, sweet, and fast-crystallizing honey called mangrove honey. Their team serves up delicious lattes and breakfast items. I ordered the salted honey latte and a breakfast sandwich. Both items were yummy, but I'd return daily for that over easy sandwich topped with pesto. While they specialize in coffee, the storefront also acts as a storefront for all things honey. You'll find endless merch and tastings from all types of local honey. They also offer unique canned beverages, slices of pies, breakfast items, baked goods, etc.

Quality has gone down since I last came 2 years ago. The coffee is good but too milky even when I…read moreasked for an extra shot. The matcha was also too milky after asking for extra :( Not as many cute pottery/gift shop knick-knacks to buy. Vibes are different, but I still come for the coffee here n there lol

Our favorite stop when in, or passing through Carpinteria. They are so friendly and accommodating…read more Great indoor and outdoor seating...Food is awesome right along with their coffee drinks.

I was at a festival down in the area and needed some caffeine, I saw they had some coffee and tea…read moreoptions. They also had some pastry's that were vegan and gluten free, breakfast items and acai bowls here too. The barista was friendly as well as the staff. Inside had plenty of seating with an outside patio. I got a hot chai with almond milk and my mom got a strawberry smoothie. When the order came up it was a hot matcha not a chai but they corrected the drink quickly. It was hot but it didn't give much of a chai taste, it was more milk than anything. My mom did like her smoothie tho, organic and no added sugar. I did see some people with acai bowls, may have to stop by again and try something different.

Thinks the pace to be. Come in, order at the counter and find a spot…read more Seasonal fruit Danish- sublime Bagel Breakfast sandwich- salty, savory, hearty an shits the spot Breakfast Tartin- dreamy notes of salty mushroom goodness Strawberry matcha was good to the last drop. Brewed coffee fueled me for my day.

Brass Bird has a genuinely lovely patio, and the cold brew was sufficiently high-octane to make me…read moreforgive quite a lot. Unfortunately, the food was mediocre at best, especially given the price. And then there was the "croissant." I put that word in quotation marks because what arrived on my plate was less a croissant than a bread roll experiencing an identity crisis. A croissant is supposed to be a minor miracle of pastry engineering: dozens of buttery laminated layers, a crisp golden shell that shatters when you tear into it, and an airy, irregular honeycomb interior. You should finish one surrounded by enough flaky debris to require a small cleanup operation. This thing was pale, squat, dense, doughy, and almost completely devoid of discernible layers. The interior had all the airy honeycomb structure of a hot dog bun. It looked as though someone had taken a dinner roll, bent it into a crescent, pinched the ends, and hoped geometry would do the rest. There was no shattering crust. No honeycomb. No glorious buttery lamination. No shower of flakes. Just a soft crescent-shaped bread product that had apparently once heard a croissant described from another room. I have eaten spectacular croissants. I have eaten mediocre croissants. I have eaten mass-produced grocery-store croissants that, whatever their shortcomings, at least understood the assignment. This one appeared not to have read the syllabus. So: lovely patio. Potent cold brew. A perfectly pleasant place to sit for a while. But if pastry is the reason you're going, just make a U-turn. Photographic evidence attached. France, please accept my apologies.

This was such a fun spot to stop by on the beach. While we were in line, some of the local kids had…read morevery specific orders obviously after ordering shaved ice here many times before.  I would highly recommend getting the condensed milk on top, as it greatly improves the texture of the shaved ice by making it much creamier.

Penelope's Sno Balls is an absolute must! Friendly fast service, huge portions and delicious…read moreflavors. Don't miss this fabulous food truck by the beach.

This review is for their bakery cakes. I needed a vegan cake for my mom's 60th birthday and I was…read morepleasantly surprised to be able to order and all organic vegan cake locally! So happy they offer this. The cake was 6" and 3 layers and beautifully done. The cake itself was dense but full of flavor. My vegan parents LOVED the cake, my non vegan husband said the texture was off, not fluffy like a traditional cake but more dense like a cookie. While I agree with that description, I thought it was absolutely delicious. 6" cake was PLENTY of cake for 5 adults. With the 3 layers you can cut them in half. The prices for the cakes after 6" are a little steep in my opinion. I was quoted $75 for 6", $170 for 9" and $285 for 12". I am having my daughter's birthday in a few months and will probably do a couple different 6" cakes (thinking I might as well go with multiple flavors) for less than the price of 12".

After we had just got done at the beach, we were craving a cold and refreshing treat. I looked up…read moresmoothie spots and decided to go with Pacific Health Foods. This is a health grocery store, which carries a variety of supplements, snacks, beverages and other food items. When you walk inside, it has the "healthy" smell to it, if you know what I mean. At the very back of the store is where they have a walk-up counter where drinks are made to order. The menu is displayed above and there were so many options to choose from (and ingredients were listed, so you knew what was in it). Almost everything had a little healthy twist to it, so it was like ordering a guilt-free sweet treat! When they make your drink you take your receipt up to the register to pay. And while they were making our drinks it also gave us time to browse around the store. Definitely great if you need some snacks for the road! I left with the Piña Colada smoothie and it was simple, but delicious! The perfect beverage to help me cool down. It's a great store! Highly recommend!

** Guicho's ** I give the a 10 out of 10 they are warm,…read morefriendly, and inviting if you don't mind the takeout boxes their food is absolutely delicious. All are welcome here unlike some of the other Italian places in town."" Giannfranco's Trattoria "" Thanks to the locals that gave me a tip on this delicious place. They too said that the service was poor and the host is rude!!

Unsuspecting spot, empty when we got there w/ lots of open space inside on 9/12/25 morning... but…read moreit's a GEM. So good, so flavorful, w/ generous portions and lots of seafood. Helpful staff. FETTUCCINE w/ SHRIMP $16.95 Tiger shrimp, mushrooms, scallions, light cream, sherry wine, garlic LINGUINE $17.95 Green and white linguine, tiger shrimp, bay scallops, mushrooms, green onions, white wine, light marinara, crushed red pepper

Fantastic chocolate with great variety. Live on the east coast and can even say it travels from…read morecoast to coast!

As someone who has traveled to Europe many times and tried a variety of local chocolatiers there,…read morethe huge stream of 5-star reviews (and finding out the owners were French) had me ecstatic. However, my experience was disappointing. The two girls in the shop were almost asleep. One was barely conscious, the other was trying to make up for her. The chocolates looked very interesting, but they were rather dull-looking and often hard to differentiate because the display case had no lights. Add to this the already dim lighting of the store and that it was an overcast day outside, and it felt like trying to buy chocolates in an old library. As for the chocolates themselves, they did not taste like French/European chocolates at all; they had the very standard American chocolate taste-that is, Hershey-like and with no deep resounding real cacao flavor that is like bass from a speaker on your tongue. That's what real European chocolate tastes like. This was just sugar, sugar, sugar, and cute designs. Maybe they are using cheaper American ingredients rather than importing higher quality ones? No point in having the Eiffel Tower on your logo if you wouldn't be able to keep this store open in France. But the best part: the girl at the counter didn't let me try anything other than the three pre-selected types of bon bons on the sample tray! How cheap can you get? I've never had any chocolatier deny a sample of a simple truffle, especially not one with the gall to charge $3 per chocolate in a tiny town like Carp! $35 for a dozen, just to not even be able to try what you are putting in the box? You must be joking. Anyways, onto trying to find another good chocolatier in the 805...