Nostalgia Act

over the past 14 years, it’s that Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas rarely take the path you expect. With their newest offering, the St. Clair Supper Club, they’ve introduced a challenge for themselves: reinventing a genre that not many people were clamoring to see reinvented. Right under our noses, they transformed the cozy basement of Roister, the Alinea Group’s West Loop outpost, into a slick update of the traditional folksy supper clubs that once dominated the Midwest. With its leather booths, cartoonish paintings, and paper placemats that read “We’re Glad You’re Here,” Team Achatz isn’t after stars