Chris Himmel, Marblehead resident and president of Boston’s Himmel Hospitality Group—which includes The Banks Fish House, Bistro du Midi, and Harvest—was just five years old when his father took over Grill 23 & Bar in the Back Bay. “I used to go to the restaurant, and they would just let me loose,” Himmel says of Grill 23’s early days. “And I would just soak up everything I could.”
At a time when, according to the National Restaurant Association, one
