Rome + Fig Global Bistro is closing at 317 S. Hyde Park Ave. after six years in business. Owners Eric and Kristine Zostant announced the closure via the restaurant's Instagram account, with final cocktail service scheduled through June 28. The Zostants opened Rome + Fig in July 2020.
The closing marks the end of a run that began during one of the harder windows a restaurant could have chosen to open. Rome + Fig debuted mid-pandemic — indoor dining was restricted, staffing was volatile, and foot traffic on Hyde Park Ave. had thinned considerably. Surviving that stretch and building a six-year following is not a footnote; it's the context that gives this closing its weight.
The menu the Zostants built was range-y by design: seafood risotto, pan-seared scallops, and tuna tartare alongside lamb chops, lumpia, octopus fritters, and bison meatballs. That combination — Filipino, Mediterranean, and American cuts on the same card — carved out a distinct position in a neighborhood corridor that skews more heavily toward steakhouse formats and Southern Italian.
In their Instagram announcement, the Zostants described Rome + Fig as the place "where first dates turned into marriages" — their own framing for what the bistro meant to the neighborhood over its run. It's a line that tracks with what a sit-down, globally-minded independent in Hyde Park would need to become to last: a room that held personal history, not just good plates.
No successor tenant has been named for the 317 S. Hyde Park Ave. space. The address is one to watch as Hyde Park's dining corridor heads into the second half of 2026.
