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 barbecue dates back to the mid-19th century, when settlers in rancheros throughout the Santa Maria Valley roasted sirloin over red oak fire. A century later, in the 1950s, Santa ...

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 ...

Santa Maria Valley is the California Central Coast destination that put West Coast barbecue on the map. It started 150 years ago and has a rich history beginning in the mid-1800s when local ranchers ...

The city of Santa Maria on California’s Central Coast is commonly known as the state’s barbecue capital. Its barbecue always features a beef cut called tri-tip, a triangular-shaped piece of bottom ...

California's Central Coast is throwing down the gauntlet this May, positioning Santa Maria Valley as the undisputed home of West Coast barbecue. As National Barbecue Month heats up, Santa Maria isn’t ...

Santa Maria attorney Michael B. Clayton hosted his 25th annual barbecue for veterans and military families Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Maria. The event included a parade lead by ...

A meaty piece of Solvang has landed in the Santa Barbara Public Market. The highly anticipated Que - West Coast BBQ fired up ...

A group of Santa Maria Valley barbecue teams organized by the Santa Barbara County Farmers and Ranchers Association traveled south to Will Rogers State Beach south of the Pacific Palisades area Monday ...