South Bend bars, restaurants prepare for St. Patrick's Day after COVID
Two years after the COVID shut down, restaurant and bar owners say they've begun to feel a sense of normalcy again.
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Two years after the COVID shut down, restaurant and bar owners say they've begun to feel a sense of normalcy again.
Dominick Simeri is starting to feel like himself again. The owner of Madison Oyster Bar has kept his downtown bar and restaurant closed for more than 500 days since the beginning of the pandemic. But come Thursday, that changes. "I haven't been myself in quite some time," Simeri said. "Just reaching down and grabbing a plate or a bottle of vodka where it's supposed to be makes me feel like myself again." The bar and restaurant at 129 N. Main Street will officially reopen Thursday after the long hiatus, but many wonder, what took so long? "I didn't trust it to be over," Simeri said. "An...