
You think restaurants always move heaven and earth to seat a VIP? Well, perhaps not in S.F. Not even Thomas Keller himself was able to get in as a walk-in party of three recently at Frances. As Tablehopper reports, it was just too busy a night to squeeze him in (and threes are always hard to seat), so he and his party headed down to Bar Tartine instead on a recommendation from former Frances wine director Paul Einbund. [Tablehopper]