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Wine Country Cuisine

Santa Barbara, California

DINNER NIGHTLY!

bouchon opens for dinner nightly at 5pm, serving 7 nights per week

Last Seating
8:30pm Sunday-Thursday with service until 10:30pm
9:00pm Friday-Saturday with service until 11:00pm

Business Office Hours
Sunday noon-4pm | Mon-Sat 10am-4pm
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Wine Country Cuisine

Fresh, local ingredients, prepared with care. Excellent wines that reflect the quality and character of our region and work in concert with the cuisine. Warm, inviting ambience with engaging service at a relaxed, leisurely pace. This is bouchon. We source our ingredients using an “as-fresh-and-as-local-as-possible” approach, with fish from the Santa Barbara Channel and produce from the surrounding countryside. We then take into account how these flavors can be presented with our local wines.

Group Dining

Dining table with roses

Private Dining in the Cork Room

The Cork Room is a unique private dining room with a Grand Table designed to accommodate between 10 and 20 guests.

Guest Capacity: 20
Minimum Expenditure: $1000

Private Dining Information
The bouchon outdoor terrace.

Terrace Buyout

Reserving the beautiful West Victoria Street Terrace for a private event creates a most memorable restaurant group dining experience at bouchon Santa Barbara.

Guest Capacity: 40
Minimum Expenditure:
$4,000.00 (Sunday-Thursday)
$6,000.00 (Friday-Saturday)

Terrace Buyout Information
Restaurant Buyout

Restaurant Buyout

Reserving the open-kitchen Interior, brick-walled Patio, and fully weatherized Terrace creates a most memorable restaurant group dining experience in Santa Barbara! The Terrace serves as the perfect arrival reception area, while the Inside & Patio combine to offer a welcoming dining room for up to 60 guests.

Guest Capacity: 60 Seated (Inside & Patio) and Arrival Reception (Terrace)
Minimum Expenditure:
$9,000.00 (Sunday-Thursday)
$12,500.00 (Friday-Saturday & Holidays)

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‘Market Tour & Gourmet Dinner’

Join bouchon santa barbara on either the Tuesday afternoon or Saturday morning Santa Barbara Certified Farmers Market for an informative ‘foodie stroll’ followed by a wine pairing dinner designed so you can relax and enjoy an evening of Wine Country Cuisine. Market Tour & three-course dinner with wine, $175/per person. For maximum enjoyment and to limit market intrusion tours are limited to six guests.

For ‘Market Tour & Gourmet Dinner’ reservations
Contact: (805) 730 – 1160 or: info@OriginalCaliforniaBouchon.com

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The People Behind the Passion

Mitchell Sjerven, Founder & Proprietor of bouchon Santa Barbara

Mitchell Sjerven
Founder & Proprietor
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Mitchell Sjerven, Founder & Proprietor of bouchon Santa Barbara

Mitchell Sjerven

Founder & Proprietor

A 25 year restaurant veteran, Mitchell owns and operates bouchon. His passion lies in providing an authentic, regional dining experience. Mitchell graduated the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in International Relations, Political Scienceand and is a member of the School of Culinary Arts faculty at Santa Barbara City College.

Amy Sachs, Proprietor of bouchon Santa Barbara

Amy Sachs
Proprietor
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Amy Sachs, Proprietor of bouchon Santa Barbara

Amy Sachs

Proprietor

A 25-year industry veteran, Amy moved to Santa Barbara from Pasadena, CA in the late 1980s. Ms. Sachs attended the Cal Poly Pomona School of Hospitality Management (now called the Collins College of Hospitality Management) and honed her restaurant skills at LA-area institutions The Daily Grill, Barney’s Beanery and Maple Drive. Upon arrival in Santa Barbara she managed local icons Piatti and Acacia until the opening of bouchon in 1998. Her passion for the restaurant is evident in her attention to the details of every guest experience.

Josh Brown, Executive Chef of bouchon Santa Barbara

Josh Brown
Executive Chef
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Josh Brown, Executive Chef of bouchon Santa Barbara

Josh Brown

Executive Chef

Chef Josh Brown’s return to bouchon Santa Barbara is a welcome homecoming. Having previously served as Executive Chef at the restaurant, Josh has long had an affection for bouchon, its people, and the place it has earned in Santa Barbara’s dining community. Josh’s cooking has always been closely connected to the Central Coast and its seasons, with a particular love for wine-country cuisine—food that starts with great local ingredients, respects where they come from, and feels equally at home alongside a great bottle of wine or shared around a table with friends.

For Josh, coming back to bouchon isn’t about reinventing a restaurant that has been successful for nearly three decades. It’s about celebrating it. He’s excited to honor the dishes and traditions longtime guests have come to love, while bringing his own energy, experience, and perspective to the kitchen.

Most of all, Josh believes restaurants should be places people genuinely enjoy being— whether they’re cooking, serving, or sitting down for dinner. He’s happy to be back at bouchon and excited to be part of what comes next.

Lucas Bird, Restaurant Manager of bouchon Santa Barbara

Lucas Bird
Restaurant Manager
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Lucas Bird, Restaurant Manager of bouchon Santa Barbara

Lucas Bird

Restaurant Manager

A resident of Santa Barbara for close to two decades, Lucas Bird has built his career around his commitment to the community. A resident of Santa Barbara for close to two decades, Lucas Bird has built his career around his commitment to the community. With a wide range of food and beverage experience ranging from time as a chef to the front of house, he is familiar with the ins and outs of local cuisine and loves nothing more than sharing that with diners.

From a passion for Santa Barbara wines to a personal love of experimenting in the kitchen, Lucas has found his home in the restaurant industry and looks forward to continuing to bring that enthusiasm to our wonderful bouchon guests.

Caroline Sjerven, Communications Manager of bouchon Santa Barbara

Caroline Sjerven
Communications Manager
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Caroline Sjerven, Communications Manager of bouchon Santa Barbara

Caroline Sjerven

Communications Manager

Caroline obtained her Masters in Global Communications from the American University in Paris and splits her time between France and California. Caroline obtained her Masters in Global Communications from the American University in Paris and splits her time between France and California. She has worked both in the restaurant industry in Paris and Santa Barbara as well as in various roles in the social media/communications world, locally and abroad. She fuels her combined passion for human connectivity and the hospitality arts at bouchon.

Contact Us

9 West Victoria
(1/2 block west of State St.)
805.730.1160

Dinner Nightly

bouchon opens for dinner nightly at 5pm, serving 7 nights per week

Last Seating
8:30pm Sunday-Thursday with service until 10:30pm
9:00pm Friday-Saturday with service until 11:00pm

Business Office Hours

Sunday noon-4pm | Mon-Sat 10am-4pm

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Directions
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Directions to Bouchon from Points South From Northbound 101 →
  • Get off at exit 98A, CARrillo Street (NOT exit 94C, "CABrillo")
    [Confusing? There's a CAStillo in SB too!]
  • At the bottom of the ramp, turn right onto Carrillo.
  • The 4th traffic light is Chapala street (Just past the fire station on your right). Turn LEFT.
  • Go past the first two stoplights on Chapala.
  • About half way up the next block on the right is a city parking lot.
    (First 75 minutes is free, then $1.50/hr)
  • Walk to the back of the parking lot and go to the left. At the street (Victoria) turn to the right. We are a 3 doors down at 9 West Victoria.
  • After 6pm and all day Sunday, there is free street parking in the green and unmarked curb areas.
Directions to Bouchon from Points North From Southbound 101 →
  • Get off at exit 98, Carrillo Street
  • At the bottom of the ramp, turn left onto Carrillo.
  • The 4th traffic light is Chapala street (Just past the fire station on your right) . Turn LEFT.
  • Go past the first two stoplights on Chapala.
  • About half way up the next block on the right is a city parking lot.
    (First 75 minutes is free, then $1.50/hr)
  • Walk to the back of the parking lot and go to the left. At the street (Victoria) turn to the right. We are a 3 doors down at 9 West Victoria.
  • After 6pm and all day Sunday, there is free street parking in the green and unmarked curb areas.
Parking Directions →

City Lot #5, directly behind bouchon, is best place to park. Enter from Chapala Street.
(First 75 minutes is free, then $1.50/hr)

bouchon Santa Barbara's location in the heart of Downtown Santa Barbara

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