Possible Clues:

• Small restaurant with a bar
• Small restaurant in Penman Street?
• Inside job is troubling restaurant
• Sounds like if you throw beast around they'll cook you dinner
• Writer has way to tuck in inside French restaurant
• Writer adding stone to middle in eating place
• Small French bar and restaurant
• Diner's salt emptied, feeding writer
• One may be writing about street wine bar
• Shortages of towns, such as one in the south of France?