Blue Hill opened in 2004 and seats 88 people in a building that had previously been a cow barn for the Rockefeller dairy farm.

[1] The restaurant serves contemporary cuisine using local ingredients, with an emphasis on produce from the center's farm.

The new concept was a response to the Black Lives Matter protests bringing attention to structural inequities in the restaurant industry.

[6] In 2022, Eater published an exposé on the restaurant's ethics, interviewing 45 people, including 20 former employees, alleging a hostile workplace with low pay, high stress, 70-hour workweeks, abusive management, and stonewalling of sexual assault claims.

The article also highlights several examples of fraudulent practices – with the restaurant claiming unique and special stories about several of their dishes while taking shortcuts or deviating from what the staff was told to tell guests.