SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining Parklets Becoming Permanent, But New Permits and Costs Are Looming While the “Shared Spaces” program is spawning permanent, lovely parklets in SF and the greater Bay Area, a quagmire of new permits, regulations, and costs will be kicking in soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails and Outdoor Dining Extended In California Restaurants and bars in California can continue selling to-go booze through the end of the year, and outdoor parklet dining and alcohol sales are being extended as well, ahead of state laws that will solidify both.
SF Politics Scott Wiener's Bills Expanding Outdoor Drinking Rules Pass Unanimously In Committee Two outdoor booze-related bills introduced in February in the California State House by Senator Scott Wiener have passed with unanimous, bipartisan support in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Long Will It Be Before People Are Cool With Dining Indoors? The Bay Area is showing its trust in science and heeding the warnings of experts, and restaurant owners still say that indoor dining isn't as easy of a sell as outdoor dining is — even though all Bay Area counties but one are now allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity indoors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scott Wiener Introduces Bill Easing Liquor Laws Around Parklets, Shared Spaces (But Not To-Go Cocktails) A new bill introduced Friday aims to help all of that continue on a more permanent basis — but, sadly, it doesn't include the ongoing legalization of to-go and delivery cocktails, so we won't be turning into New Orleans just yet.
