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Left Bank, LB Steak abruptly closing all Bay Area locations

Vine Hospitality has abruptly closed all seven of its Bay Area restaurants, including longtime Santana Row favorites Left Bank, Meso Modern Mediterranean and LB Steak, leaving customers and employees stunned....

KTVU FOX 2 NewsJun 23, 2026

PG&E warns of new scam involving bar codes or QR codes

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is warning customers of a new scam involving bar codes or QR codes. The utility said the emerging con is a new wrinkle to a common scam where customers receive a call demanding immediate payment to avoid a stoppage in service. “Scammers are ...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 23, 2026

Left Bank restaurants abruptly close for good

A popular restaurant group with locations across the Bay Area is suddenly closing its doors. Left Bank and its sister locations LB Steak, Meso Modern Mediterranean and Petite Left Bank are shutting down. The first Left Bank opened in Larkspur in 1994. There are now seven lo...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 23, 2026

Left Bank, LB Steak abruptly closing all locations in Bay Area

Vine Hospitality has abruptly closed all seven of its Bay Area restaurants, including longtime Santana Row favorites Left Bank, Meso Modern Mediterranean and LB Steak, leaving customers and employees stunned....

KTVU FOX 2 NewsJun 23, 2026

Decades-long Bay Area hospitality group closing all restaurants

(KRON) -- A Bay Area hospitality group that has been around for decades is shutting down all its restaurants. Seven restaurants are set to close by the end of the week, Vine Hospitality wrote in a social media announcement Monday. The closures are the following (along with their ...

KRON4 (KRON-TV)Jun 22, 2026

Bay Area startup opens satellite manufacturing facility in San Jose

A Bay Area space company celebrated the opening of a new facility Monday, bringing both satellites and new jobs to the region. Startup Muon Space officially opened a 130,000-square-foot satellite manufacturing facility in San Jose. The company’s satellites will track everyt...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 22, 2026

Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, Carlos Santana and more mourn the death of Clive Davis

Music artists mourned the death of Clive Davis, one of the industry’s most powerful figures who launched or resurrected the careers of artists ranging from Whitney Houston to Carlos Santana. Santana on Monday called Davis “a visionary.” Barry Manilow said music wasn’t just bus...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 22, 2026

A new treatment for gray hair? Researchers are working on an innovative approach

Gray hair is a natural but inevitable sign that we’re aging. But new research suggests that it might not be so inevitable after all. By using drugs that stimulate part of the immune system, researchers think they may be able to restore pigment to hair that’s gone gray to preve...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 22, 2026

Clive Davis, legendary music producer, dies at 94

Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, has died, his family confirmed to NBC News. He was 94. ...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 22, 2026

Emeryville restaurant in century-old building serves last meal

(KRON) -- A restaurant that has become a fixture in Emeryville served its last meal on June 20. The Townhouse Restaurant, known for its century-old building, food, and drinks, is now closed. Watch the report from KRON4's Amanda Hari, who was there on its last day and spoke to som...

KRON4 (KRON-TV)Jun 21, 2026

Organizers to add 4th screen in San Pedro Square for World Cup watch parties

Watch party organizers at San Pedro Square are preparing for the upcoming USMNT match in Santa Clara on July 1. The Mexico and USA matches each brought more than 25,000 fans to downtown San Jose, packing bars, restaurants and all three outdoor screens. Now, organizers are ...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 20, 2026

World Cup crowds have San Jose businesses bringing in more staff and alcohol

San Pedro Square in downtown San Jose has continued to see enormous crowds day after day for World Cup watch parties. Thursday, the area was crowded with more than 30,000 fans clamoring to watch the Mexico versus South Korea matchup, so many people that security had to turn some ...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 19, 2026

SF hotels see steady World Cup business, but fall short of Super Bowl surge

Bay Area bars and restaurants are packed for World Cup watch parties this week, but San Francisco hotels are not seeing the same sell-out crowds experienced during the Super Bowl earlier this year. While the Super Bowl brought a concentrated week of events that sent hotel pric...

NBC Bay Area (KNTV, NBC)Jun 19, 2026