Plant-based goes steakhouse luxe, but without the meat. Find out which savory fruit steals the spotlight in a vegetarian ...

Wesley Chiu is doing something a little different with his new restaurant Kelp, opened in September ... and side dishes such as seaweed salad ($5.95) and an unusual cold edamame salad ($4.95 ...

Fourteen years ago, Goldblatt started the Fish Reef Project, working to restore local native kelp forests. He tells me they were wiped out off the coast of Goleta during a 1983 El Niño.