outdoor dining

Snow season is not too far off and now West Hartford is clearing the streets of outdoor eating areas that were launched during the pandemic. “A little chilly but fine. We had the nice fire lamp,” said Jennifer Meehan of Fairfield. On Sunday, Meehan and her friend Julie Armstrong grabbed lunch outdoors in West Hartford. “Especially with the uptick right…

Snow season is not too far off and now West Hartford is clearing the streets of outdoor eating areas that were launched during the pandemic.

West Hartford is getting ready to remove outdoor dining barriers in anticipation of snow season.

The Town of West Hartford will begin removing its outdoor dining barriers, which allowed many of its restaurants extra outdoor dining space, next week in anticipation of snow season. The town installed barriers and changed traffic patterns in the busy West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square areas to allow restaurants more flexibility to expand outdoor dining during the coronavirus…

Many restaurant owners are not happy with new restrictions requiring them to close to indoor dining by 9:30 p.m. under Phase 2.1.

Restaurant owners who had worked to set up ‘igloo’-type structures for outdoor diners were surprised to find out the state wasn’t going to allow them.

Large flurries fell in downtown Southington Friday, putting the brakes on business at some area restaurants. “It’s not like before where we would see people crowd in.  I think it keeps people away,” Sean Sherman, owner of Sherman’s Taphouse in Southington, said of the combination of the coronavirus and bad weather. Center Street, which became an expanded patio for...

With winter looming, Connecticut restaurants are working to keep outdoor dining going.

Enjoy authentic Mexican food overlooking the Connecticut River in Wethersfield.

As the weather turns colder, Putnam is preparing to remove temporary barriers on streets downtown that allowed restaurants to set up expanded outdoor dining areas.

The Town of Putnam is taking down concrete barriers that were put into place for temporary outdoor dining amid the pandemic, according to Mayor Barney Seney. Barriers will be removed, weather dependent, between Nov. 2 and Nov. 6. The town provided the barriers in May, blocking off parking spots on Main Street, in order to accommodate restaurants that did not…

A woman who was one of eight people injured Sunday afternoon when a man accidentally accelerated into an outdoor dining area in San Jose succumbed to her injuries the next day, police said.

Taylor sampled the food from Chef Tyler Anderson’s newest creation, a food truck combining the flavors of Mexico and barbecue, now parked in the Millwright’s lot in Simsbury.

A car slammed into an outdoor dining area on the Upper East Side on Monday night, leaving diners with minor injuries and a driver was taken to the hospital. It was the latest accident involving expanded al fresco seating amid mounting calls from the restaurant industry to develop some timeline for dine-in in the city. In Monday’s crash, police...

Serving up handcrafted cocktails and a creative bar menu from the team at Sift Bake Shop

Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned for the second time in one week Monday that he may have to shut down bars and restaurants in New York City all over again if compliance on the part of businesses and individuals doesn’t improve. Frustrated by what he has described as lacking enforcement on the part of local governments, Cuomo dispatched his new...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday more than three dozen restaurants and bars across the state, mostly in New York City and on Long Island, were cited for COVID violations overnight, part of an ongoing problem he blames for an alarming new surge in virus cases among people in the 21 to 30 age bracket. New York’s COVID hospitalizations have plunged…

The Town of Putnam is forming a committee to explore making temporary outdoor dining on Main Street permanent. Town leaders closed off a portion of the street two months ago, impacting 12 parking spots, to make outdoor dining available for The Courthouse Bar and Grille and The Stomping Ground. Both restaurants have no outdoor dining. They had no other way…

New York City restaurant owners already struggling with limited business are now facing another issue: rats. With indoor dining put on hold indefinitely due to COVID-19, outdoor dining is the only other option, aside from takeout and delivery, restaurant owners like Giacomo Romano have to keep their business afloat. But the owner of Ciccio, an Italian restaurant in SoHo, says…

New York City got more “back to normal” Monday than it has in three months as it entered Phase II, reopening long-restricted restaurants to outdoor dining, stores to in-person retail, playgrounds and more services with strict limitations. Mayor Bill de Blasio described Phase II as the five boroughs’ “biggest step forward” yet as the city looks to recover from the…