"Garver is starting this week and that’s a big project for us," Hunter said. "We have lot of people and resources going into it."

Forequarter was UFC's second restaurant. It opened in summer 2012, a year after fire destroyed the first restaurant, Underground Kitchen, on East Mifflin Street. Named for the address (708 1/4 E. Johnson) with a nod to butchery, Forequarter was the brainchild of brothers Ben and Jonny Hunter and restaurant veteran Mel Trudeau. Trudeau ran the front of the house and stayed with UFC for 8 years.

"It was, in a way, the first of its kind," said Trudeau. "This elegant, yet casual restaurant that didn’t follow the same fine dining rules that Madison was so used to. We saw it before Forequarter in other markets, but it was one of the first here with this style.

"Forequarter did a part in training the local diner," Trudeau said. "And I want to say that very kindly. It’s OK that not every restaurant is what you expect or imagined it to be before you get there."