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Bartender Sam Goodall taps a beer at Oscar’s Brewing Company in Temecula on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The new brewery replaces the last vestige of the Pat and Oscar’s chain which has been at that location at the Temecula Duck Pond since 1996.
(Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Los Angeles County has officially revised its coronavirus health order, authorizing breweries and wineries that don’t have their own food kitchens to reopen for outdoor sit-down service if they partner with a caterer or food truck.
The revised language includes some peculiar requirements such as purchasing alcohol with food in the same transaction, and customers must make a “prior reservation for a table at least one day in advance.”
The news was nonetheless welcomed among the roughly 70 breweries in the county that have been closed for months like thousands of bars that don’t serve as well. Up until Monday, county health officials said they were consulting with legal staff over excluding bars from the amended health order.
Meanwhile, the county on Tuesday reported 1,846 new coronavirus cases and 30 associated deaths, bringing the total number of people who have died in L.A. County from the coronavirus to 6,681 and […]
