A group of Bay Area restaurant industry veterans that includes a former longtime Slanted Door chef is bringing a buzzy modern Vietnamese restaurant to Marin County — though the opening team of Tụ Tập, due open in July in San Anselmo, comes with a share of legal controversy.
Owner Adam Block has owned and helped broker deals for dozens of prominent restaurants in the Bay Area and across the country, as well as abroad, for decades, including Thomas Keller’s Per Se. A former partner and chief financial officer at Farmshop in Larkspur and Santa Monica, he’s involved in a legal battle with Farmshop chef-owner Jeffrey Cerciello, whom he sued in 2024 for embezzlement, among other complaints, and who countersued him soon after. The cases are due to go to trial in February.
Block declined to comment on the case but said he is excited to open a restaurant in San Anselmo, where he lives, especially after working on projects around the world. “It’s kind of a homecoming,” he said…