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Tasting menus · Santa Barbara / Ventura

The Black Sheep Restaurant + Bar — Santa Barbara

Chef-led vegan tasting-service lead with locally sourced ingredients and French technique; request the vegan degustation. Happy-hour Papas Tacos contain fried purple potatoes, slaw and salsa verde, but complete vegan suitability is unresolved.

Candidate Unknown Ongoing
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Vegan evidence

2026-09-24: Official home, tasting-experiences and menu-page inspected. Some V labels appear beside butter/cream descriptions, so individual dishes were not automatically accepted. Papas Tacos $10 are an unqualified lead, not a vegan potato-taco recommendation. October challenge menu pending. Next September 30: actual vegan courses/sauces, service price and advance-notice conditions.

Official homepage explicitly offers a curated vegan degustation. This establishes a vegan service, but exact current vegan courses and preparations are unpublished. A-la-carte dietary markers are inconsistent and cannot qualify every V-marked dish. Recorded research; limitations are retained above.

Booking

Booking, price & service
Reservations highly recommended. Wed–Sun from 5pm; Saturday brunch 9am–1pm. Regular four-course family-style tasting is $75/person, but that price is not explicitly confirmed for vegan degustation. Vegan courses, price, notice requirement and cancellation terms unknown.

Location

18 E Cota StSanta Barbara, CA93101 2026-09-24: Participant identity/address compared with 18 E COTA ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA, 93101. Census street-address interpolation, not a verified entrance, suite or parking point; suite omitted from geocoder input. Postal code from matched address. Location checks do not establish vegan ingredients, hours or driving access.Location checked 2026-09-24

Location precision: Address. Map placement does not verify hours or driving access.

Record history

  1. Added record The Black Sheep Restaurant + Bar — Santa Barbara; Ongoing; Official homepage explicitly offers a curated vegan degustation. This establishes a vegan service, but exact current vegan courses and preparations are unpublished. A-la-carte dietary markers are inconsistent and cannot qualify every V-marked dish. 2026-09-24: Official home, tasting-experiences and menu-page inspected. Some V labels appear beside butter/cream descriptions, so individual dishes were not automatically accepted. Papas Tacos $10 are an unqualified lead, not a vegan potato-taco recommendation. October challenge menu pending. Next September 30: actual vegan courses/sauces, service price and advance-notice conditions. Sources: https://blacksheepsb.com/ | https://blacksheepsb.com/tasting-experiences | https://blacksheepsb.com/menu-page | https://veganchefchallenge.org/santabarbara/ Location: https://blacksheepsb.com/ | https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/locations/address?street=18+E+Cota+St&city=Santa+Barbara&state=CA&benchmark=Public_AR_Current&format=json