Special Events
restaurant week 2025
Join us for Santa Ynez Valley Restaurant Week! We’re pulling out all the stops with a three-course menu that includes (drum roll, please…) our signature artisan pizzas! Yes, you read that right – our beloved hand-crafted pizzas are part of this year’s Restaurant Week lineup, along with farm-fresh delights straight from our own Cafe Farm. At just $30 per person, this is the perfect opportunity to experience the best of wine country cuisine. Whether you’re a regular or have been meaning to visit, our Restaurant Week menu showcases what makes dining with us so special.. Reservations are recommended – we expect this to be a popular weeks!
our local featured artists
We are blessed to be among breathtaking vineyards and numerous farms and ranches, but Santa Barbara Wine Country is also home to an abundance of talented artists. We have the pleasure of hosting the work from many of these artists at the Los Olivos Café.
Sharon Foster captures the enchanting beauty of Santa Barbara County through her distinctive “Digital Art” process, transforming original photographs into watercolor-like masterpieces. Using her Canon D5 Mark 2 camera, Foster documents the rolling vineyards, pastoral landscapes, and dramatic California coastline that define our region, then artfully applies watercolor filters in Photoshop to create pieces she calls “Affordable Art.” Her work, which showcases familiar local scenes through a dreamy, painterly lens, will be on display and available for purchase at Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Cafe from January 3rd through April 4th, 2025.
Stop by to view and purchase your favorite piece!
Featured Local Winemaker Series
Our popular Featured Local Winemaker series continues! A great way to get turned on to wines you haven’t tried and to learn more about the wines and winemakers you may have already been acquainted with. Check out our interviews and blogs!
Visit our YouTube Channel and SUBSCRIBE to get to know our local winemakers right along with us!
We had the privilege of featuring the following local winemakers and their wines. Follow links to our blogs to meet them yourself:
- Jeff Nelson and James Sparks of Liquid Farm
- Kris Curran and Bruno D’Alfonso of D’Alfonso-Curran
- Lane Tanner of of Lumen
- Michael Larner of Larner Vineyard and Winery
- Ryan Carr of Carr Winery
- David Delaski of Solminer
- Dick Dore of Foxen Vineyard & Winery
- Eric Mohseni of Zaca Mesa Winery
- Garrett Gamache of Ground Truth
- Jim Clendenen of Au Bon Climat
- Bion Rice of Sunstone Winery
- Ernst Storm of Storm Wines
- Karen Steinwach Buttonwood Winemaker
- Jessica and Peter Stolpman of Stolpman Vineyards
- Dieter Cronje of Presqu’ile
- Jeff Fischer of Habit
- Greg Brewer of Brewer-Clifton
- Rick Longoria of Longoria
- Matt Brady of Samsara
- Chuck Carlson of Carlson Wines
- Sarah Holt Mullins of Rancho Sisquoc Winery
- Doug Margerum of Margerum Wine Company
- Sonja Magdevski of Casa Dumetz.
- Kat Gaffney of Spear Winery
- Norm Yost of Flying Goat Cellars
- Louisa Lindquist of Verdad Wines
- Karen Steinwachs of Seagrape Cellars
- Josh Klapper of Timbre Winery
- Mike Speakman of Westerly
- Tara Gomez of Kita Winery
- Aaron Walker of Pali Wine Co.
- Rick Hill of Labyrinth
Follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) or sign up to our email list to be the first to know when we close our doors for exclusive local winemaker dinners— a few of our past winemaker dinners have featured: Wes Hagen of J.Wilkes (formerly Clos Pepe), Dick Dore and Bill Wathen of Foxen Wines, Jim Clendenen of Au Bon Climat, and Bob Lindquist of Qupé.