St. Clair Supper Club

Pre-meal: Reservations are advised and are done through Tock. Valet parking available at Aviary or Swift & Sons. Enter through Roister and then down one flight of stairs.Room: Cool Wisconsin supper club vibes! Long bar leads to small dining room. Comfy chairs and tufted banquettes.Picture-taking: Moderate lighting is ok.Beverages: Curated classic supper club cocktails include delicious brandy old-fashioned. There are WBTG and bottles, and a house mocktail. Happy hour is before 6 pm and there are drink specials and discounted oysters (raw and Rockefeller).Menu: Classic supper club items with some upgrades. Prime rib is the main attraction but there are non meat choices. Upgrades include Yorkshire pudding instead of rolls and Robuchon pommes puree instead of mashed potatoes.Food: We had several appetizers. The oysters Rockefeller were delicious - I'm often disappointed by this dish but theirs was really really good - so juicy and succulent. Fried cheese curds are never bad but these were particularly good and so was the house made hot sauce. Crab cakes were tasty. Deviled eggs ($15 each) were good but sticker shock prevented complete enjoyment. Entrees were also very good. Prime rib (from Australian wagyu) was predictably delicious. The cod fish & chips were excellent - as good as any I've had. Pan roasted salmon was perfect. Schnitzel was overcooked and missing the crispy puffy crust. Yorkshire pudding was great as was the Caesar salad.Desserts were good. Carrot cake was a small portion but was tasty and spiced differently (star anise?). Grasshopper pie was ok - the Oreo crust was very tough - difficult to cut through it.Service: Attentive and knowledgeable.Price: $$$$Value: 2 out of 10Summary: Expensive upgraded supper club with very good food.

Food was good but very expensive. However a lot of restaurants are. It was just very cold and temperature was in 30s. The kitchen had a strong cold breeze coming into diningroom. We complained but ultimately got our coats. The sides are also not enough for 4 even though waiter said it was.Oh and coat check basically trashed my umbrella. Not sure how but handle is knicked all over. It is like they knew I would write a poor review!Would not go back. Plenty of good restaurants for this price and you don't need your coats

Restaurant is located under the roister restaurant, enter that restaurant and the host will guide you downstairs. Reservations are a must as the space is small. Our server was super informative about the menu! Happy hour deals are awesome! Fresh oysters for $2! And these dirty martinis was delish! The real star was the prime rib....it is amazing! Order each of the sauces for the prime rib, my fav was the bernaise sauce and the peppercorn sauce. Order the Yorkshire pudding to sop up the juices! Sides were tasty, potatoe purée and creamed spinach. Wedge salad was also good! Desserts fell very flat. The grasshopper pie was pretty to look at but very very minty. Could just be me but it was too much mint. The whipped cream and Oreo crust was delicious though! Now the chocolate cake. We wanted to like it but it was incredibly dry. Very crumbly and dry. Not a good chocolate cake. But the rest of the meal was delish!!

Don't be fooled by the Alinea Group moniker- St Clair is a restaurant with potential that it doesn't live up to.We had the oysters, prime rib, horseradish sauce, mushrooms, carrots, and grasshopper pie.The food was good but with only one entree on the menu (Prime Rib) attached to the name of a celebrated chef it wasn't the "greatest" prime rib. The sides were mediocre. If you've been to true Midwestern Supper Clubs in northern Wisconsin you will be disappointed by the food and you'll be paying West Loop prices for that let down.The service was very good, staff friendly and attentive.Decor / Ambience is nice, though again, it seemed like they didn't "nail" the theme they were trying for. The open concept kitchen left all my clothes smelling like frying oil upon leaving.Location is very good in the heart of the West Loop, easy valet and garages are nearby.All and all, I wouldn't prioritize going back but would try it again if someone really wanted to- just avoiding "fish fry Fridays" for the sake of my dry cleaning bill.

I initially had a tough time finding this spot. It's Inside Roisters. I arrived a little early for my reservation (15 minutes) . I was met by a friendly and attentive hostess who eventually got me downstairs to the bar. And there I sat. No water, no drink, no nadda. A good ten minutes later the bartender appeared and was super cool and helpful. Got my wine order to me quickly and took my dinner order. As a chef myself I absolutely loved watching the staff do their thing. Took a long time to get dinner. But that was alright with me. Loved the atmosphere and watching the kitchen team go. The King cut prime rib was good. The "on the fly" bernaise that I watched get prepared was outstanding. Yorkshire pudding was on point. All and all pretty good experience. Prices are what they are but they are pretty dang steep. Dinner for one came out to 177.

It's not that the food is bad, but it's not great. It's only ok. There are many restaurants that have ok food. Like TGI Fridays, or olive garden, but they don't charge the kind of money for their food that this place does. I spent $350.00 for myself and a friend. We got apps drinks and the prime rib with sides. There wasn't anything that really stood out as great. It wasn't bad, just not worth the price. I kind of feel ripped off, and I will never go back again.

I get what they're trying to do. For the theme they're going for, it's well executed. However, there's a reason that this kind of food and decor is in the dustbin of history. So many better restaurants in Chicago. So little time...

We tried this restaurant on a recommendation and it was a huge disappointment. I think there is a certain expectation of service when you go to a restaurant that's part of a respected restaurant group, and the service here was awful. Our server, Chris A., was rude and seemed inconvenienced by everything. (Even though the restaurant was fairly dark, it didn't hide the multiple times he rolled his eyes.) In addition to his terrible attitude. He didn't do the actual job well, either. There was an extended time between entrees, he forgot about a dessert we ordered to-go, and he made an error with a reservation fee which he then told my friend would be much easier to settle if I just Venmo-ed her because he didn't want to correct the bill. Service aside, the food was gross. I ordered the shrimpcocktail and it wasn't cleaned very well. (My friend got the wedge salad, which she said was decent was but nothing special). We both got the Prime rib, and the quality of the meat was not what I expected, the crust was unpleasantly salty (and I love salt), and the au jus had an unappetizing thick consistency. I actually asked for a small plate (insert server eye roll) to try to get the meat away from the juice. My friend agreed. We both ordered the horseradish crème fraiche and she said it was way too mild in flavor. I honestly didn't even try mine because it looked like straight whipped cream. I ordered mushrooms and brussel sprouts, and both were terrible. They were so saturated in beef fat/butter/oil that they were inedible. Again, I used the small side plate to try to squeeze out all the added fat, but still ended up with a major stomachache before we even made back home. This meal was such a disappointment. I don't know if it's because we ordered the wrong things, or if it was late and the end of service and no one cared what they were serving, but I would not recommend this place to anyone. I think it's more disappointing because there are so many great options in Chicago and it felt like I flushed $200 down the drain. I was so turned off by the food that I wanted nothing to do with dessert, however, my friend got the grasshopper pie and she said it was on par with the rest of the meal. Lastly, I asked for coffee service because I really just wanted to get the taste of dinner out of my mouth. The server immediately told what he didn't have (insert eye roll) and then reluctantly asked me if I wanted to order coffee quite some time after. Our server was again just so rude, which made the included 20% service charge harder to swallow.

The food is good. The carrots were actually great. The prime rib tasty and the sauces on point. Yorkshire pudding is a must have. Love the onion rings, too. Cake was a little dry for dessert: come on, Publix is moister. Service was attentive and good. Maybe they've gotten over their pandemic slump? No signs of the issues many have reported on a Sunday night. Music could be a few dBA lower. Basement decor is cute. At least at the tables it isn't over-warm. A spot for two gets crowded with food real quick, though. Value? I don't know. It's a lot of money for a prime rib and classic Midwestern sides. Maybe too much. And yeah I know Tock is intimately linked with the Achatz/Kokonas Empire but it can't possibly be busy enough to demand a deposit?

Well, if you can find St Clair Supper Club, hidden in the basement of Roister Restaurant, you may think you have found a hidden gem. Valet parking is offered by nearby restaurants that cover for St Clair. But it is a diamond in the rough.The prime rib is excellent, as you might expect for the prices you pay. Very often prime rib is over cooked. Ours was served rare, as it should be. There was substantial amount of fat which added to the flavor but diminished the size of the portion.That was the best thing about the restaurant. Service was slow, even though we dined early. We arrived during happy hour but no one came to visit our table for the first 10 minutes and we had to argue that the happy hour drinks menu we were given should still apply despite it now being after 6 pm. They do not have the appropriate wine glasses for the various types of wine. The after dinner sauterne was served in a candy dish. The pinot grigio was not fresh and inviting, but old, tired and yellow. Avoid.The sides we sampled, creamed spinach and assorted mushrooms were good. The Yorkshire pudding was neither hot nor fluffy. The wine list was outrageously expensive, so we just had cocktails, about 2 each. Total cost of the dinner was $328 including a 20% tip automatically included.For that kind of money everything should be perfect, not stainless flatware, cheap tableware that you might find in a diner, and no real wine glasses. No tablecloths, just plain wood tables. DIners were very under dressed, like they had just come from the carnival. We did get a complimentary ice cream scoop for the birthday boy but butter pecan which he did not like.So overall, was it worth it? No. The prime rib was good. If you go, just order prime rib and a couple sides, skip the Yorkshire pudding (which I found an insult to all Yorkshire pudding everywhere) and order no alcohol, and maybe you will get out the door for under $200.