Indoor dining might be back at a limited capacity, but it seems that restaurant diners across the Long Beach Island region preferred to dine al fresco to mark the final weekend of the 2020 summer season.  

“The weather was still nice, so a lot of more people still wanted to eat outside than go in,” Jay Cranmer, owner of Buckalew’s Restaurant and Tavern and the adjoining Station 117 Tavern and Garden in Beach Haven, said earlier this week. “Of course, that will change once the weather gets cold.”