Twenty years after he opened his first Melt Bar and Grilled in Lakewood, and a year and half since the last location closed, Matt Fish is getting back into the restaurant game. Although the chef had remained open to a return to hospitality, he did not intend for that revival to happen so soon.
“I worked with Dave Ferrante last year on the Visible Voice space – I consulted with him on the café portion, the bar, the coffee – and we hit it off really well,” Fish says of his new landlord, who offered up the former Proof space. “I did some soul searching and decided that I wanted to get back in the game.”
This time around, Fish is being careful to keep his culinary options loose, he says…