While it’s not the kind of news we want to be sharing, we appreciate the mention and of course all the support we’ve received this year.

 

 

Austin restaurants and bars were left with a decision: risk a citation on New Year’s Eve, or close their doors before the countdown

On the last night of 2020 Stanley Adams, owner of Siena Ristorante Toscana, prepared for a scaled-back salute to the end of a very bad business year.

“We are doing a relatively full, normal New Year’s Eve but, you know, with the required spacing and with less capacity than in a normal year,” Adams says. “Of course, we’ve added a lot of outside seats at Siena; none of that’s going to be very useful tonight.”

December—which is normally Siena’s best month—was a bust.

“We will struggle to just break even this month because our sales are much reduced,” says Adams, who has recently closed several of his Brick Oven restaurants.

Read more at: https://austonia.com/covid-curfew-affects-ny-eve