Santa Barbara Restaurants

Hungry Cat

1134 Chapala St.

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Tel. (805) 884-4701

info@thehungrycat.com

www.thehungrycat.com

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This small, loud, top-notch restaurant, younger sibling to the Hungry Cat in Hollywood, opened in April. It won't be cheap, and you may have to wait, and you might catch a whiff of attitude. But if your dinner is like mine, great-food glee will obliterate just about all else.

The almost-all-seafood menu depends heavily on the local catch and changes often. On the weeknight of my visit, the place -- which opens only for dinner and weekend brunches and does not take...

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Hungry Cat

Amy Scattergood

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  • 2 stars
  • Food
  • 2 stars
  • Service
  • 2 stars
  • Decor
  • 3 stars

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Ummmm.....no

Posted by CaliKat  from San Diego, CA  on August 2, 2009

So people think that just because they are sitting in this little dive restaurant they are all hip and part of the in crowd the waiter was a jerk the people in there were even worse and we got seated right next to a loud mouth dude who was desperately trying to impress his date by letting her and anyone sitting in a 6 ft radius that be met wolfgang puck. we would have felt really stupid if we got suckered into staying and paying the insanely high prices in this dive so since wecalready knew we were cool we got up and left wo our tap water ao can't rate the food but don't get suckered into paying this kinda money unless you have it to burn

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Ain't worth that much

Posted by brexfors  from santa barbara, CA  on April 22, 2008

$17 for a burger that looks like an appetizer. not again, thank you!

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