Chicago's Roister

The chef Andrew Brochu (@a_brochu) was deep into the development of a new restaurant in Chicago when he came across a promotional video while doing some research on the internet. Mr. Brochu liked the trailer for “The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen” cookbook, and he especially enjoyed the music credited to Roister. Curious about the word, he looked up its meaning, and, to quote Leslie Nielsen quoting a thousand other gumshoes in “The Naked Gun,” bingo. “The definition was ‘to revel in a boisterous manner or to be loud and drunken,’” Mr. Brochu said. “I said, that could be the name of a restaurant, Roister (@thealineagroup).”

From “Roister in Chicago” by Steve Reddicliffe for the New York Times; Photo by Allen Hemberger

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