Katerina Balagian serves up Seasons Kitchen & Bar’s showpieces: muhammara, torshi pickles and goat tagine to 880 guests at the annual Tower Bridge Dinner in Sacramento on Sunday.

Less than a week later, the restaurant closes for good.

Seasons will close after dinner service on Friday, Balagian confirmed to The Sacramento Bee. It’s attached to the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Davis and has been transformed into a California-Middle Eastern fine dining destination restaurant during Balagian’s more than year-long stint as chef.

Balagian’s inventive menu and hyperlocal sourcing catapulted her into the Sacramento spotlight, but Seasons had been serving customers for 20 years before she came aboard. It opened at 102 F St. in 2003, specializing in a variety of American fare, including fresh pappardelle with meatballs, buttermilk fried chicken and wood-fired pizzas, the latter of which continued under Balagian.

The 18 Seasons employees received emails Friday from the hotel’s operator, Aimbridge Hospitality, informing them that the restaurant was closing and that they would be laid off. Aimbridge, which operates the franchise on behalf of owner Presidio Co., will hire two cooks and two servers to serve Hilton Garden Inn guests at breakfast and the same plus two bartenders for dinner, the email said.

“I’m a little frustrated, a little disappointed, and trying to focus on leaving a good place for the staff,” Balagian said. “This past year, everyone I’ve worked with has been great, and that’s really why I’ve stuck with it as long as I have.”

Balagian said she and Guneet Bajwa, Presidio’s co-managing principal, were repeatedly so irritated that she filed an OSHA complaint against the restaurant in late August. The complaint describes an unair-conditioned kitchen, a leaky roof over the dishwashing area and dangling electrical outlets, despite a 2019 renovation.