Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining

Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by asdff on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:31AM (#24866058)

I wish they'd close even a single street to car traffic in LA. A single one. Instead restaurants sprawl into the sidewalk and leave a little 2 food wide strip where you walk within spit fleck distance of dozens of maskless people eating and drinking and talking loud. I just look for a break in traffic to walk along the road or cross the street entirely.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by dwaltrip on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:54AM (#24866414)

Main street in downtown Culver City is closed -- for the single block it spans. It's something. It'd definitely be nice to see more of that elsewhere.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by dmurray on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:26AM (#24867521)

Same for a few blocks of downtown Santa Monica.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by peterbecich on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:45AM (#24867625)

Also, a few blocks of Pine Avenue in Long Beach.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by mjevans on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:50AM (#24868079)

Build a pedestrian traffic layer over the service road tunnels, turn the 3rd floor into the main level. Vehicles are still needed for delivery and long distance, apply the engineering solution.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by knaq on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:48AM (#24868442)

That sounds almost like a typical airport or mall.

For some reason, people don't want to be in a mall anymore. It's like how people don't want to be in a minivan anymore. Malls and minivans are practical. They just don't have the right image.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by mjevans on Sunday October 25, 2020 @12:47AM (#24883904)

The typical mall or airport isn't built over a street. It's much more like building a subway for cars and banishing non-pedestrians to the underworld.

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Re:Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining by knaq on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:14AM (#24885708)

There are streets below airport concourses. The streets near the aircraft are used by baggage handling vehicles. The streets farther from the aircraft may be used by buses and taxis.

Large malls have lower space, often on only two sides, for delivery trucks. (the ground is commonly sloped so that customers enter on a different level from the deliveries)

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