The Montecito Inn’s more casual spot on property — also by restaurant power couple Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita Kallas-Lee — is The Monarch. Open for lunch and dinner, the restaurant and bar was built around a wood-burning hearth, and focuses on local ingredients, like caramelized spiny lobster served whole, straight from the brick oven. Dinner entrees are served family-style, so that everyone at the table can enjoy the red wine and mustard seasoned short rib roasted over almond wood, or Hope Ranch mussels stewed with white wine butter, herbs de Provence, orange, and shallots.