Hearth opened in 2003, and it’s a testament to the passionate loyalty of our customers that we’re still around. Are we grateful? That would be an understatement. Hearth is a restaurant that’s easy to enjoy — although occasionally hard to describe. We started out a lot fancier, but we gradually evolved into the place we are now — a warm, casual, quirky downtown sanctuary devoted to serving the food that we happen to crave. You probably wouldn’t categorize us as a wine bar, but wine has always been at the heart of what we do, and our list goes deep. And a whole lot of loyal customers come for the cocktails, which (like the dishes from our kitchen) reflect our reverence for everything seasonal, local, and handcrafted. Our chef and founder Marco Canora, winner of 2017’s James Beard Foundation Award for the Best Chef in New York City, has family roots in Tuscany, and you can see that Italian influence in our pasta dishes, our polenta, our meatballs. But we’re not an Italian restaurant in the strict sense. You might say we’re Italian in spirit, with the same reverence for ingredients and commitment to seasonality that have defined Italian cuisine for centuries. Maybe the best way to describe Hearth is to say that it’s the place you want to keep coming back to, and apparently that’s why we’re still here.