I enjoyed this week’s write-up of the Hopleaf, a neighborhood favorite [“On Tap at the Hopleaf,” Section Two, September 12]. Unfortunately, in calling it an “Andersonville beer bar,” the Reader puts it in the wrong neighborhood.
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Everyone wants to think they’re in Andersonville, yet on every map I’ve seen this trendy fragment of Edgewater begins at Foster and ends at Bryn Mawr. The Hopleaf, at 5148 N. Clark? That’s Uptown. Same with La Donna and Tokyo Marina, two other outstanding Uptown restaurants on your Andersonville list. (Whatever you do, please don’t ever call that stretch of Clark “South Foster,” as Uptown-phobic developers on the 5100 block are trying to do. It’s bad enough that they foist their ugly buildings on us. Must they foist ugly, revisionist names too?)
Edgewater (and proud of it!)
