Grotto confusion? It's an issue for two Northern California restaurants, especially when one announces they they'll give noisy kids the boot, and another says that they welcome the little critters with open arms.

Earlier this week, San Francisco news outlets like CBS5 and KRON4 reported on Monterey's Old Fisherman’s Grotto, which has a policy banning crying or loud kids, and is now refusing to allow strollers, high chairs, or booster chairs in the restaurant.

It's not completely clear why this was a local news issue this week: restaurant owner Chris Shake told KSBW that the anti-kid policy "has been in place for two years and they’ve had two signs up since then."

Apparently, however, this recent coverage has prompted some less detail-oriented news consumers to direct their ire towards the wrong restaurant. KGO reports that San Francisco's No. 9 Fishermen's Grotto has been slammed with angry calls and emails from folks who think that they're anything but sympathetic to patrons with loud offspring.

SF's No. 9 Fishermen's Grotto and Monterey's Old Fisherman’s Grotto are completely unaffiliated, owners say. In fact, No. 9's Anthony Geraldi, the great-grandson of the restaurant’s founder, Mike Geraldi says that at the SF restaurant “we love kids and the families that bring them,” according to Bay City News.

Meanwhile, Monterey's Shake is unrepentant in the face of an angry public, telling KSBW that "if a place has the rules, that's what the rules are."

Shake, who via autoplaying audio invites visitors to his restaurant's website to make his restaurant "part of your family's tradition," tells KSBW that patrons should "go in and abide by the rules or...find a place more suitable for you."

[KSBW]
[KGO]
[Bay City News]