There's nothing a restaurant owner wants more than a room full of noisy diners enjoying their meal and the company of their friends. As Temporada's Dave Young said: "A full restaurant is a beautiful thing."
But two years since the start of the pandemic, it has long remained just a wish at many of Canberra's venues.
The 'shadow lockdown' of the Omicron wave of COVID-19 is keeping hesitant diners away. And many of those who turn up are pushing to sit outdoors.
