ML - Michigan Avenue

2014 - Issue 7 - November

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photography by anjali pinto get to the point With an appealing hearth-to-table menu focusing on seasonal ingredients, neW hot spot The PromonTory has become hyde park's place to be. by ari bendersky It's Friday night, and Hyde Park's newly reinvented Harper Court develop- ment is abuzz. Young families are out for sweet treats at Kilwins; teenagers shop at edgy fashion spot Akira; and moviegoers file into the Harper Theater. But the epicenter is a stone's throw away, in a converted space across from the historic Hyde Park Bank building: The Promontory. Known more for the University of Chicago campus and the sprawling Museum of Science and Industry, this South Side neighborhood has never been a major dining and nightlife destination, but you wouldn't know that from walking into this bilevel, 10,000-square-foot space. Just inside the floor-to-ceiling doors, a multicultural, multigenerational crowd mingles at the bar beneath twinkling pendant lights. Boisterous conversations arise from the wooden tables that sit under an installation by South Side artist Juan Angel Chavez. This is clearly a new Hyde Park. "We wanted to be a beacon of the community," says partner Bruce Finkelman. That idea is hardly new to Finkelman and his crew, fellow owners This fall's po' boy features fried clams and tender pulled pork, cooked in The Promontory's signature wood-fired oven. continued on page 98 michiganavemag.com  97 taste this Issue: Haute Harvest

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