![]() ![]() The plastic tents go by a host of different names, but they are mostly called pop-up bubble tents, big bubble gazebos, or winter screen houses. The New York City restaurants that have turned to bubbles for outdoor dining have bought them from a company called Alvantor. ![]() It’s like your own little private dining room outside,” says Stephen Werther, the owner of Suprema Provisions on the West Village, which installed its own bubbles just days ago.īut the igloolike tents can also get costly and require strict sanitation measures, and some health experts question how safe they actually are. Not only are the bubbles Instagram-worthy, “they’re warm they’re cozy. It’s nice that you can make your own vibe in your own bubble,” Chevreux says. “Some of them view it almost as a gimmick it makes it a little bit futuristic. ![]() Initially, the couple bought one off Amazon as an experiment, and diners responded so well that they just kept on buying more now they’re up to 16, and they look like two rows of transparent moon landers standing out on the upper Manhattan sidewalk. Owner Nadine Chevreux says her husband began looking into bubbles this summer, worrying about the cold, wet months ahead. In New York, the early adopter was Café du Soleil, a French place on Broadway and West 104th Street on the Upper West Side. A video of the dome-shaped tents on a West Village street went viral this week, prompting questions of how safe they are, not to mention just what they are.īubbles of various sorts have shown up around the country since restaurants began to ease into this new, strange era of dining out. Now, as the weather gets colder, there are also plastic bubbles out on sidewalks, too. The pandemic has upended the way New Yorkers dine out: There are sidewalk tables, open streets, streeteries, and barely anyone eating indoors. ![]()
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