Rosewood Miramar Beach

On the Miramar Beach in Montecito above Santa Barbara, Rosewood Miramar Beach occupies a position on one of California’s most prized private beachfronts in a community that has functioned as the retreat of choice for Los Angeles’s creative and entertainment industry elite since the early twentieth century. The 163 rooms, suites, and cottages are designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture that defines Montecito’s residential aesthetic — the white stucco, the terracotta tile, the arched colonnades — applied at the scale of an estate whose twelve acres include the beach, multiple pools, gardens of mature palm and citrus, and the social infrastructure of a destination resort that has historically drawn the region’s most celebrated guests. The hotel’s reopening in 2019 following a $300 million restoration gave the Miramar its most complete expression of the Southern California resort ideal.

The culinary programme spanning Caruso’s Italian-Californian restaurant, the Miramar Beach Restaurant’s casual seafood, and Fern restaurant’s California wine country cuisine draws on the extraordinary agricultural diversity of the Santa Barbara wine country, the Santa Ynez Valley produce, and the Pacific seafood of the Channel Islands’ protected waters. The spa’s programme draws on California’s integrative wellness tradition and the Pacific coastal botanical landscape in a facility calibrated to the Montecito community’s sophisticated expectations for wellness quality. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Santa Ynez Valley wine estates, and the Channel Islands National Park boat excursions provide the cultural and natural landscape beyond the beach property’s considerable self-contained amenity.

Rosewood Miramar Beach’s relationship with the Montecito community reflects the estate’s long history as the social and cultural gathering point of Santa Barbara’s most significant community, and the hotel’s commitment to the beach and garden character that defined the original Miramar gives it a continuity with the coastal California resort tradition that the property has embodied across more than a century of operation.