Barbareño Restaurant is a rustic-inspired restaurant and wedding venue that celebrates traditional coastal cuisine in downtown Santa Barbara, California. Effortlessly balancing casual style with refined design, this welcoming space invites you to host a rehearsal dinner emboldened by local ingredients and some of California's best wines.

Bringing the Barbareño experience to you, the restaurant now also offers offsite catering, run off a large mobile grill and smoker, for weddings and events.

Facilities and Capacity

Barbareño Restaurant offers a number of options to accommodate rehearsal dinners and receptions on-site. Within their stylish interiors, you can host up to 40 seated guests within the main dining room or soak in the atmosphere on the covered, heated patio (seating up to 70 guests). The team takes pride in catering to any style of event, meeting unique gatherings with their renowned standards of high-quality food and excellent hospitality. They endeavor to work closely with you to create a one-of-a-kind experience that embraces your special moment with the best their setting venue can offer.

For off-site events, the Barbareño team can travel up to sixty miles to cater your wedding or event. They can accommodate events ranging in size from 50-200 guests.

Services Offered

Executive Chef Julian Martinez and Chef de Cuisine Preston Knox are the beating heart of Barbareño Restaurant, crafting menus that beautifully reflect a specific time or place. For private wedding events onsite, they offer an enriching nine-course dinner of shared plates and passed appetizers that lend well to an intimate gathering. Meanwhile, the wine list is a thoughtful selection of small-scale Californian producers carefully curated by Lenka Davis.

For offsite events, Barbareño offers a casual California-style barbecue experience, brought right to your event by way of a large mobile Santa Maria grill/trailer. Serving up classics like red oak-grilled tri-tip, smoked chicken, local pinquito beans, garlic bread, seasonal salads, macaroni and cheese, the chefs share their spin on the foods of our backyard cookouts. The standard style of service for offsite events is buffet, but other styles of service can be accommodated. With consideration generously given from start to finish, you are free to savor an unforgettable evening that will most certainly set the tone for your wedding day.