Feasting Out: Kitchen Alums Return for Laïola's Four-Night Farewell Blowout

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Opening chef Mark Denham is back.

​Laïola is not exactly going gentle into that good night of restaurant history. Before the Marina tapas bar morphs into Tacolicious early next year, owner Joe Hargrave is mounting a four-night farewell that'll see the return of kitchen alums.

Opening chef Mark Denham, who left a year ago, will be back Dec. 28-31, along with cooks who've scattered to Spruce, Bar Tartine, and Commis. Menu offerings Dec. 28-30 will include things like chickpeas with housemade blood sausage, an esquiexada of local hamachi, plancha-cooked petrale with winter greens and crispy trotters, and roasted Napa Valley lamb.

New Year's Eve is a four-course, $75 prix fixe described as a cooks' collaboration with, Hargrave digging deep into Laïola's Spanish cellar. Make reservations for any of the four nights here.