FULTON MARKET — Alinea chef Grant Achatz is placing out Hearth — at the least for now.
The restaurant at 951 W. Fulton Market, the place meals is cooked by flame and smoke, will shut June 28. Crain’s was first to report the information.
Hearth’s lease is up on the finish of June, “and with the numerous lease enhance, it was time to discover a new house for FIRE,” Achatz mentioned in an e-mail to Block Membership.
Achatz mentioned the aim is to reopen the restaurant in a brand new location.
“I’m assured it is going to rise from the ashes quickly,” he mentioned.
“We’re very bullish on this idea,” Alinea Group CEO Jason Weingarten advised Crain’s.
Achatz’s The Alinea Group opened Hearth in November, changing its informal but elevated Michelin-starred restaurant Roister.
Hearth’s $135 tasting menu revolves round dishes cooked over open flame, utilizing methods comparable to ember cooking and ash-salt crusting, in keeping with the restaurant’s web site.
Hearth is subsequent door to Subsequent, 953 W. Fulton Market, one other Achatz restaurant and Michelin-star winner the place the tasting menu modifications each few months in keeping with theme. Early this yr, Achatz partnered with Dylan Trotter, the son of late chef Charlie Trotter, on a Subsequent at Trotter’s dinner collection held at Trotter’s eponymous restaurant — which Dylan Trotter plans to reopen.
Alinea, Achatz’s three-Michelin-star crown jewel in Lincoln Park, turns 20 this yr. To have fun the milestone, Achatz has launched an Alinea highway tour of kinds, with pop-up dinner collection in Miami, Los Angeles and different cities.
Achatz can be planning a corn canine collaboration with the beloved Chicago sizzling canine stand Wieners Circle.
Between all these tasks, “we have now our hair on hearth proper now,” Achatz advised Block Membership in January.
Two-person reservations on June 28, Hearth’s final day, had been all booked as of Wednesday.
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