Fire does the talking.
A small dining room built around a wood-burning hearth — short menu, long evenings, four counter seats held for whoever walks in hungry.
Dinner Tuesday through Saturday, from five. · 12 Halden Street
The idea
A small dining room built around a wood-burning hearth. Short menu, long evenings.
Everything touches the fire at least once — the bread, the beets, the chicken, occasionally the bartender’s cedar plank.
No tasting-menu theater, no reservations you need an app streak to win. Just dinner, done with care, at a pace that lets the second glass happen.
from tonight’s card
Finished in the embers, pulled when the skin crackles. Salsa verde, nothing shy about it.
Grilled over the coals, passed with smoked butter. Order two before anyone asks.
Cured over alder out back, sliced to order. Pickles sharp enough to argue with.
the menu, briefly
leaf through a course — the full card lives on the menu page
Small plates
- Hearth breadv9
smoked butter
- Charred carrotsv14
whipped ricotta, hot honey
- Coal-roasted beetsv13
horseradish cream, dill
- Smokehouse board19
alder-cured pork belly, pickles, mustard
- Crispy potatoesv12
ember aioli, chives
The room
Come at golden hour. The oven’s been going since noon.
the hearth room
The hearth room sits just off the main dining room — close enough to feel the fire, far enough to hear each other. It fits the dinners that matter: the small wedding, the retirement that deserves better than a conference room, the deal that should be closed over a pork chop.
find the fire
12 Halden Street · the old mill district
Dinner Tuesday through Saturday, from five.
(312) 555-0148
Walk-ins keep four seats at the counter, where the kitchen will talk your ear off.