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The Hitching Post

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Established
  
1952

State
  
California

Current owner(s)
  
The Ostini Family

Country
  
United States

The Hitching Post

Food type
  
Steakhouse, Barbecue, American

Website
  
hitchingpost1.com hitchingpost2.com

The Hitching Post and The Hitching Post II are upscale American steakhouse restaurants located in Santa Barbara County, California, in California's Central Coast region. They are considered among the best and best known of the Santa Maria-style barbecue restaurants popular in the area.

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History

The original Hitching Post was purchased in 1952 by the Ostini family in Casmalia, California, in a building that was previously the Casmalia Hotel before it was converted into a restaurant in the 1940s. Its sister restaurant The Hitching Post II was opened in 1986 in Buellton, California.

The restaurant also makes its own brand of wines under the Hartley Ostini brand.

The Hitching Post II is known for being featured in the Rex Pickett novel Sideways and the Academy Award nominated 2004 Alexander Payne film adaptation of the same name.

References

The Hitching Post Wikipedia