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After laying off employees multiple times and dipping into his personal savings to keep his 10 drinking and dining venues afloat, restaurateur David Spatafore feels optimistic for the first time in a year as San Diego County awaits the green light next week for more broadly reopening the local economy. With the COVID-19 case rate continuing to diminish, San Diego is poised to enter the less-restrictive red tier next week, which, for restaurants and gyms, means moving back inside albeit at much-reduced capacities for the first time in more than four months. Movie theaters, too, would be allowed to operate indoors, as would museums and aquariums. And retail outlets will be able to increase capacity to 50 percent. ....
Eater San Diego: San Diego Slowly Heading Toward the Return of Indoor Dining A round-up, via Eater San Diego, of this week s top stories in San Diego s food and drink scene By Candice Woo, Edited by Monica Garske • Published March 5, 2021 • Updated on March 5, 2021 at 11:17 am Shutterstock/CC Are we getting closer to the return of indoor dining? We talk about that on our Scene in San Diego podcast this week. Eater San Diego also shares these top stories of the week from our local food and drink scene: the arrival of a ramen hotspot in Hillcrest, Instagram-worthy French fries in Pacific Beach, the rise of Baja cuisine and the debut of a takeout butcher shop in Little Italy. ....
Updated on March 3, 2021 at 8:03 am On this episode of our we talk about coronavirus vaccinations for restaurant workers and how San Diego County appears to be inching toward the red tier in California’s pandemic reopening plan. We’re not there yet, but there is some pandemic progress. We talk about what the shift from the purple to the red tier would mean for our local restaurant scene and other activities around our county. Joining our conversation is Ben Clevenger, president of the San Diego chapter of the California Restaurant Association, who will talk about the state of our local restaurant scene. ....
Print As the number of staffed and available intensive care beds continued to run low Tuesday, county supervisors moved forward with the biggest changes to date in enforcement of local health orders, bringing in 17 more workers and allowing more proactive pursuit of blatant violations. Those changes came on the same day that federal officials urged states to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines to people age 65 and older and anyone with pre-existing medical conditions. Though some places have already implemented such changes, San Diego County, home to more than 473,000 people in that age bracket, isn’t among them. “We will open eligibility as directed or allowed by the state,” said county communications director Mike Workman in an email. ....