These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: "New American" Style Restaurant to Open at Fairfield and Maxine in May.
New Restaurant to Open at Former Hartley's Location at Fairfield and MaxineFolks in the neighborhood were excited last week to hear a new restaurant will be within walking distance of Southwood Park!
Here is more information on the subject from today's newspaper.KIMBERLY DUPPS TRUESDELL | For The Journal GazetteAt one time, the restaurant space at Fairfield and Maxine avenues was vibrant and full of life. It was home to Hartley's, a Fort Wayne institution open for 25 years.
However, since Hartley's closed in 2009, the space has been relatively quiet. Chuck & Bird's Bistro briefly occupied the building in 2011, and My Grannie's Table took over 4301 Fairfield Ave. in 2016. But a local couple are set to breathe new life into the building, signing a lease to open a restaurant there this year.Corey and Amy Bowers will be serving “new American” cuisine with a rotating menu. There will be an emphasis on quality ingredients, sourced as locally as possible.No stranger to the kitchen, Corey Bowers spent many years in the Chicago culinary scene. He was a sous chef at HB Home Bistro in the Boystown neighborhood, where he was “dishing up inventive New American fare; familiar flavors executed in unfamiliar ways,” according to the Illinois Office of Tourism.A tentative timeline has the restaurant opening in May.
