![]() Katie MacDonald, Intern Cambridge Historical Society. Kleespies, Executive Director Cambridge Historical Society. Auburn streets and an important landmark in Harvard Square. Under her guidance, Harvest is again a worthwhile stopping point along the unnamed walkway between Brattle and Mt. The following year she appeared on NBC’s The Today Show and the Food Network’s Iron Chef America. There she received critical acclaim from The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Food & Wine and Bon Appetit, and was named a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2006. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Dumont trained in restaurants around the country from San Francisco to Chicago, before returning to Portsmouth to open The Dunaway Restaurant at Strawbery Banke. Today, Harvest’s executive chef Mary Dumont is an emerging star in her own right. Awards have come both locally and nationally from Boston Magazine, the Improper Bostonian, and the Zagat Survey. Lauded as a Harvard Square classic by Travel & Leisure magazine, Harvest has also received acclaim for Best Brunch in Boston, Best Guaranteed Great Meal in Cambridge and Best Outdoor Dining. Since its reopening, Harvest has once again become an icon of Harvard Square dining, receiving several awards and rave reviews. ![]() It was reopened under new ownership and, after six months of extensive renovations by interior designer Elkus Manfredi of Copley Place and Bay Tower Room fame, reopened and attempted to recapture its former preeminence. In 1997, growing competition and poor management forced the restaurant to close. New cooking shows drew on Child’s format, former chef’s from Harvest went off and started their own restaurants, and, across the country and in Harvard Square, new restaurants were opening of a much higher caliber and with much greater sense of international designs and flavors. The “Culinary Revolution” inspired by Julia Child’s TV show and the success of innovative restaurants like Harvest led to an expansion of the American pallet nationwide. Harvest has been home to many celebrated chefs including Lydia Shire, Chris Schlesinger, Barbara Lynch, Frank McClelland, Sara Moulton, Bob Kinkead, Scott Bryan, Jasper White, and Jimmy Burke.Īlthough Harvest has an impressive list of alumni and fans, it became a victim of its own success. Her colleagues and students have served not only in Harvest’s kitchen, but have also moved on to open some of the best restaurants in the city. ![]() Child often frequented “The Architects’ Corner,” shopping at D/R, enjoying the store’s European flare, and dining at Harvest. Harvest was rumored to be Julia Child’s favorite place to dine. Opened in 1975, the original neon-lighted Harvest sign and the bright Marimekko prints adorning the front room drew people, including Julia Child, into walkway. Within Sert’s structure at 44 Brattle Street, though known to be simply, “on the walkway,” is Harvest, a restaurant designed and originally owned by Thompson and his wife, Jane. Behind these two is a third building of great importance, designed by Walter Gropius, which served as the headquarters for The Architects’ Collaborative (TAC), until the group sold the building in 1988. Sert is credited with 44 Brattle Street and Thompson’s Design Research was headquartered at number 48. The archway above allowed for the walkway below, which for more than 40 years has continued to change and evolve. The walkway was first created in 1969 when architects Benjamin Thompson and Josep Lluís Sert each designed buildings that connected one story above the ground. ![]() ![]() The unnamed walkway between Brattle Street and Mount Auburn Street is an unlikely place to find both world-famous architecture and a restaurant with connections to one of America’s most famous chefs, though it is one of the hidden gems of Harvard Square. ![]()
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