The 32-year-old restaurant group is shutting every remaining location by June 29, laying off roughly 300 workers with what appears to be days — not the legally required 60 days — of notice.

Three hundred workers at seven restaurants across Marin, the Peninsula, the South Bay, and the East Bay learned Monday morning — the day after Father's Day service — that their jobs end this week.

Vine Hospitality, the 32-year-old group behind Left Bank Brasserie, LB Steak, and Meso Modern Mediterranean, announced June 22 that it is closing every restaurant it operates. CEO Alistair Levine cited a "challenging operating environment" — sustained labor and food cost inflation, foot traffic at several locations down 15 to 20 percent in recent months, and a 2024 wage lawsuit filed by a former sous chef at the group's since-shuttered Oakland location that, Levine acknowledged, "didn't help." Staff at the remaining locations were informed at 9 a.m. Monday, hours after completing a full Father's Day shift.

The shutdown is staggered but swift: LB Steak at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon closes June 22; Left Bank Menlo Park closes June 23 — that location alone employs 35 to 40 workers in a city with a $17.55 minimum wage; Left Bank Larkspur, the original room, closes June 26; the three Santana Row concepts in San Jose (Left Bank, LB Steak, and Meso) close June 29. Petite Left Bank in Tiburon is part of the same shutdown.

The group was co-founded in 1994 when Ed Levine opened Left Bank Brasserie in Larkspur alongside Roland Passot — the French chef who had built his reputation at La Folie in San Francisco — as co-founder and executive chef. The portfolio grew across the Bay for three decades. Alistair Levine, Ed's son, was appointed CEO in November 2024.

The collapse didn't arrive without signals. Left Bank Oakland at Jack London Square, opened in February 2023, closed in 2024. When Vine shuttered Rollati Ristorante in downtown San Jose in August 2025, the company released a statement saying it was "taking this opportunity to refocus resources on our original San Jose locations." Those San Jose locations are among the ones now closing.

Three of the seven shuttering rooms shared Santana Row, the mixed-use development owned by Federal Realty Investment Trust, which had not commented publicly on the vacated spaces as of Monday. No California WARN Act filing for Vine Hospitality appeared in public EDD or federal Department of Labor databases — a gap that warrants scrutiny for a layoff of roughly 300 workers, which typically triggers the 60-day advance notice requirement under state law.

The company's last known outside capital was a $4 million funding round in April 2022.