"Meanwhile, in the tony town of Yountville locals can celebrate the fact that local dive Pancha’s will be making a comeback, the Chronicle reports. The popular bar, one of the last remaining vestiges of a pre-French Laundry Yountville, closed during the pandemic leading many to worry it’d never return. Now, a new set of owners plan to revive the business with one notable change: Patrons will no longer be able to smoke inside. “We want to preserve it,” owner Ren Harris tells the paper. “It’s not going to look any different from the outside than it has the last several decades.”" - Lauren Saria
