Caitlin Cole Design [Official Rendering]
A new upscale Italian restaurant from a gaggle of local industry veterans is coming soon to the ground-floor space in No. 9 Walton, a ritzy Gold Coast condo building at 912 N. State Street. Adalina is slated to open this summer with a menu that draws on both Northern and Southern Italian cuisines, in the two-story space that previously housed Walton Street Kitchen & Bar.
Soo Ahn, formerly of shuttered Michelin-starred brewpub Band of Bohemia, will lead the kitchen and work alongside chef de cuisine Sam Rosales (Monteverde) and pastry chef Nicole Guini (Blackbird, Avec). In his prior position, Ahn developed a reputation for his creative and thoughtful use of vegetables. It remains to be seen if that focus will reemerge at Adalina, but customers can expect offerings including porcini lumache pasta (porcini powder-infused pasta, castelvetrano olives, pancetta, ricotta salata) and Chilean sea bass Vesuvio (truffle, potato gnocchi, oregano, snap