The former Kitchen Hearth at 114 E. Main St. in the Tenney Building has reopened with recognizable hits from its old menu but under the auspices of Cranberry Creek, the Monona restaurant that specializes in similar American fare and Midwestern dinners like pot roast and meatloaf. The new downtown Cranberry Creek will be open Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Progress is visible on the build-out on new digs for L'Etoile and its new gastropub, Graze, in the first floor of the U.S. Bank building on the Square. Over at the old space at 25 N. Pinckney, building owner Sonya Newenhouse of Madison Environmental Group says that she and the neighboring Old Fashioned have come to a rental agreement on both floors, and that there are "lots of exciting plans for the space."