Everyday Encounters: A server at Petite Left Bank aims to spread holiday cheer
- Tyler Callister
- 26 minutes ago
- 1 min read
Tracy Hobie winds white tape around a red velvet rope outside Petite Left Bank on Tiburon Boulevard, creating a candy-cane-like pattern.
Hobie, lead server at the French restaurant, spent Nov. 25 transforming the restaurant’s entrance into a winter wonderland, featuring a fresh Douglas fir tree, white lights, a wooden reindeer, snowflakes and bouquets of roses edged with pine. A snowman in a top hat presides over it all.
The display marks the restaurant’s return to a December tradition: offering free hot chocolate to anyone who walks by.
Though the restaurant was closed that day, kids had already stopped to peer through the window.
“I just really want to bring some cheer for the kids — and really adults too, who get into it like me,” says Hobie, 58. “I love this. This is my favorite part of the holidays, the decorations and the lights and the music.”
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