Same here. I had no idea what that was until googling.
Same here. I had no idea what that was until googling.
-Formerly Stabulator
Me either!
I love eating streetside. Literally *on* the street is a new one to me. I'm surprised it's legal here.
Most Pittsburgh downtown streets are pretty narrow, particularly with the bike lanes. It's kind of annoying for pedestrians to have to navigate through a restaurant to get somewhere.
Last time Ash and I stopped in to see Carlo we ate in the street in Madison. Felt bad, the waitress fell down the stairs with our food.
So many possible jokes there...but she has my sympathy.
Being a server and having an outside, patio, or - heaven forbid - an upstairs or downstairs section is the kiss of death for that shift.
It's going on twenty years since I escaped the restaurant scene but a lot of it is hard to forget.
-former waitress
It was definitely something that was legalized during covid. For the longest time, even setting up anything outside at all was against the law, now they have these "parklets" pretty much all over the place.Originally Posted by CudaMan
There's a lot of talk of banning them again, but for the most part the restaurants are mad because they often spent a fair bit to build them and the patrons really like them, so we'll see how that all goes.
Putting seating in what was previously street parking spots was pretty popular here in Portland at the beginning of the pandemic, and so far I haven't seen any of it go away. There's a street near us that got completely closed and turned into an outdoor dining area for several restaurants on the street, and that also seems to be permanent now. We were just down there this weekend, we walked over with the dog and got some breakfast that we could eat outside with the dog.
It just doesn't make sense in a built up area to have two or three cars parking in a space that could seat 20 or 30 people. Up in Portland we're starting to get into the time of year that we have sunlight and nice temperatures quite late into the evening as well, which makes for pretty nice outdoor dining.
Hear, hear. I've loved having the outdoor dining spaces and have never felt like it ruined my ability to drive to any of these places when they're not close enough to bike or walk. Just a vastly better use of the space.
Saw an Audi etron GT and Lucid Air within a block of one another, not sure if I've seen a Lucid on the road before. The Audi was red which looks a little weird in the front and makes it stand out more, I think I could have seen it before in grey or black and just not really noticed it.
There's a Rivian on just about every block in my neighborhood, it feels like 10% of their worldwide production volume is being sent to Portland.
I'm actually surprised how many Rivians I see in/around the other [*cough*ORIGINAL*cough*] Portland.
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There are a ton of them in Kansas City - enough that I don't hardly notice them anymore.
Also, a noticeably large number of 18 wheeler transport trailers full of them. I assume that we're a rail hub for their shipping operations or something.
-Formerly Stabulator
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