{"id":38324,"date":"2020-07-31T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stop-complaining-about-nyc-outdoor-dining-setups\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:22:00","slug":"stop-complaining-about-nyc-outdoor-dining-setups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stop-complaining-about-nyc-outdoor-dining-setups\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stop complaining about NYC outdoor dining setups"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stop complaining about NYC outdoor dining setups<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 31, 2020 |<\/span> 3:22pm <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s a sultry, steamy night at Italian restaurant Lusardi\u2019s on the Upper East Side. Twelve-wheel tractor-trailers barrel down Second Avenue, separated from us by a mere 18-inch-thick wooden planter. Bicycles whiz through the lane between the tables and the sidewalk. The air\u2019s a wet sock. But who cares?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s fun,\u201d my normally risk-averse friend Stephen says.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s fun because a bare-legged dude in a skirt, a familiar and friendly neighborhood sidewalk presence, draws smiles for a style that\u2019s outside the normal Upper East Side box. Maybe it\u2019s because favorite Italian dishes, like veal martini, are as good as they were indoors \u2014 despite being turned out by a skeleton-crew kitchen.<\/p>\n

And there isn\u2019t a tourist in sight. While there\u2019s nothing good to say about a hideous pandemic that\u2019s killed more than 23,000 New York City residents, it did at least return our streets to the locals. Since outdoor dining started on June 22, I\u2019ve run into more neighborhood friends noshing outside than I normally do in a year of dining indoors. A few even drove in from their Hamptons retreats to check out the scene their city-bound friends told them about.<\/p>\n

Confounding expectations, the public went bananas for lunching and dining outdoors at 9,000-odd eateries \u2014 a fragile interlude between last spring\u2019s horrific COVID-19 plague and what some fear will be a \u201csecond wave\u201d in the fall. It isn\u2019t only about food: Power-schmoozing goes on just as before at pricier places. Strangers in Marea\u2019s little garden yakked about \u201cthe whole problem with private equity\u201d and promised to stay in touch.<\/p>\n

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Taidgh Barron\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elitists sneer. GrubStreet.com called outdoor dining an \u201cimperfect solution\u201d full of \u201cunwelcome, logistical hurdles for operators, staff and customers\u201d \u2014 and rats. The world-is-ending New York Times warns us that coronavirus particles in the air can sicken us outdoors (never mind that the city\u2019s new-infection rate remains blessedly below 1 percent after five weeks of fresh-air feasting). The fun\u2019s an illusion: Critic Pete Wells wrote that restaurants \u201care almost as desperate to prove that life is one big al fresco party as New Yorkers are to believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who can\u2019t grasp the distinction between restaurants with well-behaved customers and bars where drunken boozers cluster on sidewalks, threatens to shut the whole business down.<\/p>\n

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Ampia<\/span>Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The idea of vastly expanded outdoor eating to help struggling restaurants at first promised to be a bleep-show. Kitchens are understaffed and many menus are limited. The lightest rain scatters customers and costs owners a fortune in waste. Eateries faced harassment by city agencies over complicated rules. The Dept. of Transportation, for example, switches signals without warning about what hours street seats can be in place and how far tables need to be from traffic.<\/p>\n

And who wanted to eat at tables inserted into actual street traffic lanes? I never even liked noshing on sidewalks, full of bus soot, sushi-ogling mastiffs and hustling \u201cmusicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Negril<\/span>Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But this season, I\u2019ve happ<\/a>ily swallowed the routine whole. I\u2019ve had everything from a mammoth chicken burrito ($10.25 and enough to feed 300) on a bench at tiny Luchadores NYC on South Street to a $46 chicken-and-sausage brochette at Restaurant Daniel\u2019s sidewalk \u201cterrace.\u201d Favorites of mine \u2014 such as Marea\u2019s fusilli with braised octopus and bone marrow, and Red Farm\u2019s sizzling steamed black sea bass \u2014 were remarkably true to the indoor originals.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been to a place where customers weren\u2019t waiting for tables \u2014 sometimes pleading for them \u2014 after 9 p.m. It isn\u2019t only because months of lockdown left us desperate for any restaurant experience beyond takeout or delivery. There\u2019s a shared, frontier spirit of \u201cwe\u2019re in this together\u201d not normally found in the city\u2019s overheated, raucous and overcrowded dining rooms.<\/p>\n

Makeshift \u201cpatios\u201d popped up under all sizes and shapes of tents, trellises, umbrellas and funky pagoda-like structures. The Post has\u00a0highlighted some of the best, such as Sushi Lab\u2019s flowery Midtown rooftop, Hudson River-facing Liberty Bistro downtown and \u201curban jungle\u201d OuterSpace in Bushwick. I\u2019d add Olmsted\u2019s \u201cSummer Camp\u201d backyard with music in Prospect Heights, Avra Madison Estiatorio\u2019s graciously spaced street and sidewalk tables on East 60th Street and Tamarind Tribeca\u2019s scaffold-protected \u201cterrace\u201d at Hudson and Franklin streets.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a dark undercurrent: Although al fresco dining has been extended until Oct. 31, colder weather will doom most of it before then. Beyond that, there\u2019s no telling when the indoor dining we so miss will return. Could we again face many months of home-cooked pasta and dry takeout chicken?<\/p>\n

So enjoy the party while it lasts \u2014 and keep the rain away.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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