Foodies can celebrate Santa Ynez Valley Restaurant Week as well as Santa Maria Valley Restaurant Month. Santa Maria Valley Restaurant Month festivities kicked off on Jan. 13 and will run through Feb.

Maya Mexican Restaurant will soon celebrate their 60th anniversary of service in Santa Maria, and their motto of "never a trend, always a tradition" has become more accurate with each passing decade.

The Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant in Santa Maria has closed, one of a several recently shuttered by the Tennessee-based firm undergoing what leaders have dubbed “strategic transformation ...