Kinan Moufti spends a lot of time standing under the Belmont stop in Lakeview. He’s been handing out free sandwich vouchers for his new restaurant at 953 W Belmont Ave—and he’s documenting the entire journey on social media.

Moufti is a partner at Hot Chi , along with brothers Amer and Mutaz Abdullah, a Nashville hot chicken-slinging restaurant with locations in the South Side neighborhood Chatam, the Old Post Office, Sterling Food Hall in the Loop, and soon, Lakeview. The trio’s culinary portfolio also includes Cedars , a 33-year-old Mediterranean eatery in Hyde Park.

“Documenting the journey has been a wonderful way to kickstart our relationship with the Lakeview community,” Moufti says. “It started as a way to show others a real BTS of what it takes to get a restaurant up and runn

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