North Bay restaurants, food trucks, bars and inns secured $210.3 million in federal grants this year to help them survive the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Food service businesses in Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Solano, Mendocino and Lake counties got 620 grants through the U.S. Small Business Administration's Restaurant Revitalization Fund in the first half of 2021, according to the agency's data. The biggest share of the restaurant fund's local grants (37%) went to companies in the North Bay's most populous county, Sonoma.

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