//Here’s What it Was Like to Actually Dine Inside a Restaurant Again

Here’s What it Was Like to Actually Dine Inside a Restaurant Again

Last week, in the middle of Memorial Day weekend, Orange County restaurants received the go-ahead to immediately reopen dining rooms, roughly two and a half months since they were shuttered by the state to slow the spread of COVID-19. Three days later, I ventured south to Laguna Beach’s Selanne Steak Tavern, one of a dozen or so white-tablecloth restaurants in Orange County that reopened May 27, along with Morton’s, Mastro’s, and Hillstone Group-owned Bandera. After nearly 10 weeks of mandated