Newton in the Kitchen
A New Endeavor for Newton Chef
Lumière's Chef Michael Leviton chats about how he's balancing his new spot in Cambridge, Area Four, and what he wants you to take away from dining at his restaurant.
If you were an award-winning chef with a successful suburban eatery who had recently experienced the unfortunate demise of another creative culinary endeavor, the last thing you’d want to do is open a new restaurant, right? Well, clearly you are not Michael Leviton then. “Area Four, at the end of the day, is a simple, casual place where you can go and hang out with your friends,” says Leviton. “You can drink and have a great time.” As he stated in an earlier interview with Patch, Newton native Leviton has seen Lumière evolve throughout its twelve-year history. “The food is not even close to what we did when we started,” he explains. “Things change. No matter what you’re doing, there’s going to be this evolution.” But with the West Newton …
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