No wine, beer allowed, just the hard stuff Posted on June 15th
Put this one in the Strange But True file: Over Memorial Day weekend, my wife and I were part of a group of eight dining at The Piper, a charming restaurant with sunset views of Lake Macatawa, Mich., straight across Lake Michigan from Racine, Wis. As is our wont, we called for the wine list; our waitress gave us a here-we-go-again smile and delivered the bad, decidedly odd, news. “We can’t serve wine or beer on Sundays,” she said. “But you can order cocktails.”
Got that? Glass of wine on Sunday, verboten. Six margaritas, no problemo.
It’s not just the restaurant, and not just the town of Macatawa. It’s all of Ottawa County.
This odd set of circumstances was set in the ’80s, when the county board approved a measure permitting Sunday sales of mixed drinks—in restaurants only. But that action did not overturn an earlier ordinance banning beer and wine sales; that law had been voted in by the people (and presumably would need another countywide vote to overturn). Which is exactly what some folks in the county are trying to do.
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