With its happening bookstore-cafe, home-decor shops and farm-fresh food, Summerland makes for a low-key, charming and easily accessible SoCal jaunt.
• This tiny SoCal neighborhood offers up quaint, low-key vibes, and it’s easy to access off the 101 North.
Now home to some 1,500 residents, Summerland was born in 1883 when Henry L. Williams, a Union Army veteran, real estate speculator and adherent of the Spiritualist movement, bought over a thousand acres of what had been Rancho Ortega. The name was selected to invoke the occult-oriented group’s concept of an idyllic afterlife destination.
Outdoors, in the water-wise side garden designed by L.A.-based landscape firm Terremoto, the culinary team of Kamil Jumale and chef Miles Robbins helm Godmothers Graze, a daytime cafe based out of a retrofitted airstream trailer. The breakfast menu with bagel sandwiches and baked sweets starting at 8 a.m. shifts into braised beef dip on French roll, grilled cheese with Mt. Tam and Comté and salad options at lunch until 4 p.m.
The chalkboard offers daily specials including a catch of the day, and guests can savor generous platters of fresh fish tacos and prime rib . Since it’s the main spot open after dark, strong cocktails match the convivial enthusiasm of locals and families coming in to fill up and swap stories.The riot of edible seasonal color and texture available at Sweet Wheel Farms stand, located on Farm to Paper’s side patio, is much more than a charming marketplace.
Because she likes “to help other artists in the area sell their work,” Ryan curates the eponymous Person Ryan Gallery, too, selling original works on paper. Also on the property is her passion project, Sweet Wheel Farms.Yet another Victorian-era residence adorned with scalloped shingles has been transformed into lifestyle and garden boutique Botanik.
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