CityBest April – June, September – October
Santa Barbara
A Spanish-tiled coastal city between mountains and ocean, an hour and a half up the coast from LA.
Santa Barbara's red-tile-roof downtown draws day-trippers off Highway 101, but the city's better meals are a few blocks off State Street, in the plainer stretch of Milpas where the taco stands and diners that locals actually use are.
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