About Us
Who is Taste SBFT?
The Taste SBFT team all share our love for SB, celebrating local businesses, food, wine, people and fun! We have a passion for sharing our stories and showing people around and planning fun experiences. We have a passion for creating experiences that include fun, food and Santa Barbara. We love to include the SB culture and architecture. We love to introduce our guests to new and old and all things Santa Barbara.
Chief Eating Officer / Experience Coordinator
Evan Elizabeth Schoolnik Berger
Evan was born and raised in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. She has always loved all things food, feeding people and Santa Barbara. She also LOVES to introduce everyone to everything she loves. In a previous life, she was a technical project manager and loves to help plan events. Other than feeding people and planning things, Evan adores her two daughters, dogs, chickens, husband and all things sparkly.
Maddy
TOUR GUIDE EXTRAORDINAIRE
Originally from Nor Cal, Maddy has made her home in Santa Barbara for the last 28 years. Her background is in high-end catering & event design. She is as enamored now with SB as the day she arrived.
Kirk
TOUR GUIDE EXTRAORDINAIRE
Kirk, originally from Indiana, has called Santa Barbara home since 1988. He and his wife, Randee, have shared over 35 years together, participating in community events and adventure travel.
Kirk has been deeply involved locally, serving as Airport Commissioner for 14 years, leading the Toys For Tots campaign for 15 years, and raising funds for the Santa Barbara Zoo. He’s also contributed to Sansum Diabetes Research Institute studies and held roles such as House Manager at the Granada Theatre and Charter Manager for Santa Barbara Airbus and so much more.
GUEST TOUR GUIDE EXTRAORDINAIRE & RESIDENT HISTORIAN
Georgia is a California native and a UCSB graduate. She loves Santa Barbara and was a history teacher. She lived in Sherborn, Massachusetts (near Wellesley, 20 miles west of Boston) and after retiring, she has kept her love of history alive by doing research for the historical society AND she was a tour guide on the Freedom Trail!
While Georgia and her family lived in MA, she kept herself very busy with three kids and was an elected member of the School Board for many years, chair of two school building projects, President of the League of Women Voters, Girl Scout l leader/area coordinator, church deacon/Sunday school coordinator.
Now in her spare time she loves to research history, volunteer for the Sb Courthouse and explore SB and eat bon bons – just kidding, she loves McConnell’s Ice Cream!
Georgia is not currently leading regular tours, but does guide from time.
Meet The Taste SBFT Team
Randee
GUEST EXPERIENCE SPECIALIST
Randee
She and tour guide Kirk have been in Santa Barbara for a very long time. Randee also has two grown children and has also had a lot of different careers.
Penelope Grace & Piper Joy Lennon
GUIDES IN TRAINING
They are learning the ropes and you will see them leading tours in approximately 12 and 15 years.
Peter Noodle Doodle & Baz
WE HAVEN’T FIGURED THEIR TITLES OUT YET
Baz and Peter Noodle Doodle are the newest member of the teams.
They are both under a year old. Lovely and will try to eat your food, so you will not see them out on tours just yet.
Petey has no idea he is the size of a horse and Baz has no idea that he is not an alligator. Both have any idea that they are not human. Shhh, don’t tell.
Atticus Sparticus
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Atticus Sparticus is quite the whiz with numbers. Not really, he is just a silly guy with a big heart. He probably has a circus theme going in his head at all times and is a goofball, sidekick and has a lot of love to give.
If given the chance, he will eat your food and have no remorse. He mostly spends his days hiding from his sisters and trying to eat their food, playing with Petey Noodle Doodle, barking and of course, napping.
Mike Wazowski
REST IN PEACE
Wazowski.
He was the fur behind the foodie lady for 16 amazing years. He loved food almost as much as his mom & supported her every step of the way.
Herb Rousso
REST IN PEACE
Herb was Evan’s beloved grandfather.
Evan owes a lot of her sophisticated taste buds to this man, mostly because his daughter, Evan’s mom has a pretty darn good taste in food. He passed away at 98.5 years old.
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