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Scottadito Osteria Toscana Restaurant is a typical Brooklyn neighborhood spot, with high ceilings and dark wood. Inside the front door is a table with a white cloth. It s piled with round plates, wine glasses, and two silver pitchers of water. There are also clear plastic pump dispensers of hand sanitizer and a thermometer. When people come in, we take their temperature, says owner Donald Minerva. It s a pretty big imposition to put people in. But this is what we have to do.
Minerva is standing next to an iPad screen filled with a spreadsheet. The state encourages the restaurant to record contact information for anyone who eats inside.
Scottadito Osteria Toscana Restaurant is a typical Brooklyn neighborhood spot, with high ceilings and dark wood. Inside the front door is a table with a
Oshima Brothers, Love By Numb3rs will be the featured performers.
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The Chocolate Church Arts Center will present a virtual showcase of regional talent on its Facebook page at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13. The presentation will feature performances from popular Maine artists including Oshima Brothers and Love By Numb3rs, but also will include submissions of performances from community members.
Featured Maine artists in the showcase include popular contemporary folk and acoustic pop duo, Oshima Brothers, who played a sold-out outdoor show with the center in the Fall of 2020. Also performing will be Love By Numb3rs, the newly formed collaboration between Anna Lombard, Dan Connor and Jon Roods. Lombard and Connor were bandmates in popular roots and Americana act, Gypsy Tailwind, and have formed the new group with multi-instrumentalist and member of Rustic Overtones, Jon Roods. The trio released the album “Parachutes” in December of 2020 to critical
Gov. Cuomo should allow restaurants to reopen for all of Valentine s Day weekend and extend the curfew to midnight, Luca Di Pietro, owner of the Tarallucci e Vino restaurant group in Manhattan, tells CNBC Make It.
In fact, during the pandemic, it could be potentially the biggest weekend [with sales] since mid-March of 2020, Di Pietro projects.
In 2016, the last time Valentine s Day fell on a Sunday, sales at Di Pietro s restaurants were 40% higher than the previous and following weekend, he says. If we could reopen on Feb. 12, my estimate would be that our sales would be double what we usually do on a weekend with no indoor dining.