Yountville's Famed French Laundry Reopens Tuesday

YOUNTVILLE (CBS SF) – The Bay Area's most critically-acclaimed restaurant will reopen for business Thursday, despite ongoing construction expected to last nearly a year.

The Michelin 3-Star dining room, which has been closed since late December, will begin serving meals again amid an ongoing facelift. The full renovation won't be completed until fall, but employees tweeted preparations to work out of a temporary kitchen starting Thursday:

Food & Wine Magazine has released renderings of what they say the building will eventually look like.

Earlier in the shutdown, crooks smashed in the door on Christmas day and made off with the rare – mostly French – bottles of wine, which included Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Screaming Eagle. That wine was eventually recovered in North Carolina.