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Yahoo!Beneath Cota Street's blue arches, Café Luck (18 E. Cota, St., 962-5393) officially opened its doors on September 8. The French restaurant is the newest neighbor to Blue Agave, The Palace, and Square One and will surely bring even more attention to the just-off-State Street restaurant destination. Owner Gene Montesano is renowned for co-creating vintage-inspired Lucky Brand Jeans in 1990, but his dent on the Santa Barbara restaurant scene includes Lucky's, Tre Lune, D'Angelo's, Bucatini, and Joe's, which he purchased in 2003. The spacious new restaurant is full of mahogany tones, woven wicker chairs, and boasts a raw bar where patrons can enjoy the freshest oysters, clams, prawns, and sea urchins available on the market. Fruits de mer, soups et salads, hors d'oeuvres, plats principaux, and plats du jour decorate the lengthy menu, which reads in French with an English translation. Main dishes include grilled whole Mediterranean sea bass ($29), mussels with anise liqueur and crispy thin fries ($20), roasted leg of lamb ($26), and stuffed veal shoulder ($22). Daily specials are listed at the bottom of the menu and include crispy slow cooked duck on Sundays and Mediterranean fish stew on Fridays.
Jen Villa
Café Luck
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not impressed.
getaclue (anonymous profile)
September 17, 2008 at 8:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Looks like they still need a little tune up.
The hostess was rude and gave our reservation away by "accident." I think my waiter had ADD.
The appetizers were well done.
My main course of the whole seabass was unimpressive and the menu needs a little more french flair if they want to set themselves apart from the other Gene restaurants.
All and all there is potential but some improvement needs to be done first.
Grade: C
Golgo13 (anonymous profile)
September 17, 2008 at 9:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Visited Cafe Luck in its first week, Great. Anyone who would rate a restaurant within its first week and expect perfection is missing the mark. There is a universal understanding that it takes AT LEAST a month to iron out the wrinkles in a new restaurant. The vision is spot on, it is now just a matter of time for Cafe Luck to mature and grow into its own. I think its going to be a great place.
JimSb (anonymous profile)
September 18, 2008 at 2:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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