A Sausalito restaurant that has apparently been catering to the “after eight” crowd was shut down on Tuesday after authorities documented customers brazenly enjoying dinner as many as 30 minutes past the county-wide curfew. The proprietors were detained, while patrons were driven home and put in their pajamas.
Upon further inspection, the scofflaw establishment was found to be in violation of other Marin County ordinances. Tim Griffels, head of local code enforcement, said he was shocked. “For example, this so-called Marin restaurant did not have a single reference to Mt. Tam — not even a line-drawing of the mountain on the wall, which is the absolute bare minimum per county requirements.”
More egregiously, he said, the menu at the after-hours restaurant was not three pages long, or even ten years old; in fact, it appeared to have been hastily thrown together based on ingredients grabbed from the farmer’s market as late as that morning. “Customers in Marin expect to slog their way through phoned-in crowd-pleasers that wouldn’t be out of place on a cruise ship — at 6pm,” he added. “Not lapping up smoked-trout consommé in the middle of the night.”