Make a Splash on International Winter Bike Day, Friday February 10! wortfm.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wortfm.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Gabriella Bachara
Feb 27, 2021 4:25 PM
MADISON, Wis.– The pandemic isn’t close to ending and neither is the city’s help for local businesses.
Madison restaurants can keep their tables and chairs in the street for awhile longer. The city extended it’s ‘Streatery’ Restaurant Relief Program to April 14, 2022.
“We’re still currently in a COVID crisis,” Street Vending Coordinator Meghan Blake-Horst said. “We’re not out into the recovery phase yet.”
With indoor capacity still limited to 50 percent in Madison and Dane County, the program gives restaurants the opportunity to seat customers in places they couldn’t before the pandemic.
One Martini, Ice Cold, With a Blanket and a Scarf
Drinking outdoors in the winter, thanks to Covid, can be painful, but bar owners are trying to make it feel like fun or at least less frigid.
Curling, anyone? Marcus at Nohu, the chef Marcus Samuelsson’s rooftop hotel bar in Weehawken, N.J., has a rink to keep customers moving in the cold.Credit.Adam Friedlander for The New York Times
By Robert Simonson
Jan. 21, 2021
In winters past, Del Pedro, an owner of Tooker Alley in Brooklyn, responded to snowfall by inviting a group of friends to drink martinis in the bar’s frigid backyard. Called the Polar Bear Martini Club, the gatherings were a wry gesture of hearty determination tossed into the teeth of inclement weather.