Restaurateurs are reconsidering the worth of their outdoor dining structures.

The California Coastal Commission approves regulation forcing restaurants near the shoreline with street seating to replace lost parking spots or shut down al fresco dining

It may not be as busy, carefree, or easy to participate in as we've come to expect, but this year's patio season could just be the most joyful in T...

Restaurants and shopowners hit with hefty new fees and fines

Around 40 bars and restaurants have participated in the parklet pilot program so far.

City Council is considering making the Covid-outdoor dining scene permanent in Philly. That’s great news for local businesses.

The pandemic forced cities to rewrite the rules of the road and engage residents in the process.

The argument against keeping outdoor dining as a part of our future cities

The Open Restaurants program, founded during the pandemic, deserves to be a permanent part of the cityscape. Here are some common-sense steps.

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The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

New York City isn’t dead. Anyone who's enjoyed a beverage or a bite at one of the city’s hopping, vibrant Open Street eateries can tell you that. For

The rules of restaurant spaces are up for grabs as the city’s Department of Transportation looks to the future of street and sidewalk seating.

CLEARWATER — There’s a glimmer of nightlife in downtown Clearwater. Sandwiched between North Osceola Avenue and North Garden Avenue along the 400 and 500 blocks of Cleveland Street, patrons gather on a recent weekend for Sip and Stroll, an outdoor food and drink event that has been happening the third Saturday of every month since October 2020. It started as a way for Clearwater restaurants to ...

Andrew Fidelman got the call in the middle of the night from a friend delivering bad news: The parklet outside his wine bar had been demolished by a speeding car.

The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?

Outdoor dining is helping save Rome's restaurants, but drivers don't want to see it lastbars.

The city has approved hundreds of outdoor dining permits since the pandemic began. Yet despite causing a big loss in parking across the city, the program appears to have widespread support.

Rachel Herbert owns three cafes in San Francisco. All sit next to parks that draw heavy picnic crowds and provide a respite of fresh air from some of The City’s more crowded neighborhoods.

Restaurant owners like Allan Rodriguez are happy to hear they can likely keep their additional seating outdoors for six more months.

The outdoor dining set-ups many restaurants created due to COVID-19 restrictions took over 8,500 parking spots away from the city.

The city's expansion of outdoor dining into the street helped restaurants lower indoor capacity, keep people safe and not lose customers through the pandemic.

The city found a way to ensure those tables placed in street parking spots can remain, even as it ends the COVID-19 state of emergency.

Parklets, the public parking spaces that are rented to restaurants, offer an additional...

‘Cool, Fun and Beautiful’ Charleston is often compared to European cities, with its ocean breezes, historic buildings lining narrow streets and array of cuisines. One of the missing pieces has been space to enjoy dinner or drinks in the open air, but as the pandemic locked restaurant-goers out of restaurants and cafes, it created an […]

As a popular dining destination faces city orders to rebuild a costly outdoor dining setup, advocates call for a clearer plan for opening up streets.

City council approved an ordinance to allow restaurants to use parking meters as outdoor dining spaces.

While glimmers of hope about an impending vaccine glimmer in the future, the coronavirus still rages on. The toll the pandemic has taken on people’s lives and health will be difficult to measure for a long time coming, but there is no question that our livelihoods and norms have changed. One hopeful outcome has been...