Best thing I drank: A week’s worth of cocktails to-go, including a purple drank

Critic Brad A. Johnson can’t wait for the pandemic to be over but he dreads the day when the cocktails-to-go trend comes to end.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • March 24, 2021
Nobody knows how long we’ll be able to continue buying ready-made restaurant cocktails to-go. The state suspended the law that normally prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages to-go at the beginning of the pandemic, and authorities have said all...
The full article can be read on the Orange County Register website.

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