This @FairGameUS Santa Maria grill has only been on the market for about 10 days, and at $499 its the most affordable fully functional Santa Maria grill Ive ever used. I cooked on it before it was ...

With so many different styles of regional BBQ in the U.S. alone, barbecue can easily mean different things to different people. California is, admittedly, not necessarily synonymous with the concept ...

The common list of American barbecue styles is familiar to most people at this point: Texas, Carolina, and Kansas City. But in coastal California, one of the country's lesser-known regional barbecue ...

When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a ...

Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. The smell of red oak smoke and sizzling meat will ...

Santa Maria Style started as top-block but has since evolved to include tri-tip, a small, triangular cut from the sirloin that our region popularized in the 1950s. In honor of that tradition, the ...

Barbecue is pretty serious business for those in the know. There are a myriad of different techniques, ingredients, and sauces involved, each unique to its region or founder. Ali and Matt Clark hail ...

The warehouse club has brought Costco members access to a growing barbecue craze. Costco has the ability to create viral hits. Most of the time, those sort of fly under the radar, where members get ...