去年,餐馆和酒吧推动了户外用餐的界限,以试图阻止露天热情好客的库维德19号传播。现在,虽然面具授权而且容量限制似乎每天都在变化,许多机构重新开放,并再次欢迎顾客进入餐厅。客人再次有选择:室内还是室外?除了大流行问题,户外用餐真的是真正的选择吗?还是室内餐厅的私密,越来越小的越野车氛围使其成为最愉快的环境?成员取出工作人员听起来很开。
炸毁空调,让我一个人呆着
莉莲·斯通(Lillian Stone)
我喜欢户外用餐的想法,就像我喜欢穿一块背心的想法,而我的汗水底脚下的底板区域与Schlitterbahn Water Park的肉体相等。但是现在是时候面对事实了:我出汗和毛骨悚然,大多数户外用餐体验并不是那么令人愉快。有一些例外 - 即露天鸡尾酒吧,啤酒厂露台和芝加哥冰冻的Tastee-Freeze系列,您可以在不到五美元的情况下用薯条买一只热狗。这些都是奇妙的户外用餐体验。但是,当需要吃一些大量的东西(也许是泰语或某种猪肉产品)时,我宁愿喜欢室内的舒适感。
也许这是因为芝加哥的气候破灭。在芝加哥,每年可能有三到四天符合愉快的户外用餐标准(零湿度,微风的丝毫暗示,没有蚊子或苍蝇,没有全市范围的下水道气味)。在剩下的时间里,您将精力集中在扫除苍蝇上,使出汗的水玻璃从手机上移开。它消除了事物的亲密关系。另外,我在户外度过了足够的时间。我非常喜欢远足,自行车,攀登和事物,但是如果我出去镇上用餐,我将为您提供几个小时的宝贵空调。对我来说,在大多数情况下,户外用餐都可以做,室内用餐可以做得更好。
只要叫我ina biergarten
玛妮·舒尔(Marnie Shure)
In our current work-from-home reality, one of the most irritating parts of the summer season has been blessedly stripped away: I’m no longer being blasted with frigid, inescapable office-wide air conditioning eight hours straight, five days a week. There’s no bigger bummer than commuting with a bulky winter sweater that you’ll have to throw on over your business casual outfit on a 95-degree day, then briefly stepping outside into the sticky heat of the sidewalk before ducking into an equally chilly restaurant for after-work drinks, wishing you weren’t seated by the vent. Give me a shaded outdoor table over recirculated air any day. There’s just something about the natural, breezy surroundings that enhances the experience of eating.
正如莉莲(Lillian)指出的那样,虫子和气味绝对可能是一个问题。并非每家餐厅都可以坐在户外座位,但是值得光顾的露台通常了解如何定制其垃圾桶,雨伞,桌子和障碍,以最大程度地减少这些问题。如果一家餐厅只是将三个小酒馆桌子打到狭窄的前人行道上,并将其称为“户外用餐”,那么我会跳过。但这就是重点:在美好的一天,我宁愿完全跳过一家很棒的餐厅,也不愿定居室内用餐。芝加哥只有这么多美好的日子,您必须使夏天的每一刻。
Barring any dangerous heat waves, I want the seasons to feel like what they feel like, and if that involves a few pit stains along the way, well, there’s something character-building about dispensing with appearances as you tear into a fried fish sandwich at a picnic table. What’s a little sweat among friends?