Vine Hospitality, a longtime Bay Area group that operates a fleet of French, American and Mediterranean restaurants including Petite Left Bank in Tiburon and Left Bank Brasserie in Menlo Park, abruptly ceased operations this week, leaving employees scrambling.
The group will be closing all of its seven restaurants over the next two days, resulting in roughly 300 employees being laid off, CEO Alistair Levine confirmed to the Chronicle. The closures were first reported by the Mercury News.
Along with Left Bank Brasserie and Petite Left Bank, the closures will affect Left Bank’s two other locations in Larkspur and Santana Row in San Jose; Meso Modern Mediterranean at Santana Row; and two LB Steak locations, at Santana Row and City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. Petite Left Bank, Meso Modern Mediterranean and Bishop Ranch LB Steak will close on Monday; Left Bank Brasserie Menlo Park and San Jose on Tuesday; and Left Bank Larkspur and LB Steak at Santana Row on Wednesday, according to an Instagram post…