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Levine told The Chronicle that the closures are the result of a “challenging operating environment,” in addition to two unopened restaurants in San Francisco that “exploded at the last second.”
Levine’s late father Ed Levine and French chef Roland Passot started Vine Hospitality in 1994, with the opening of Left Bank in Larkspur. Over the past 30 years, it expanded all over the region, though the past few years have proved challenging. Vine closed Rollati Ristorante in San Jose last summer, less than two years after it opened. Left Bank Brasserie’s Oakland location also closed in 2024.