On Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, at 7 p.m., guest chef Gianni Secchi takes over the kitchen at Susu for a guided six-course tasting built around the cooking of Sardinia and Emilia-Romagna, an homage to his father’s homeland. The one-night dinner lands at 652 W Randolph St in the West Loop, in the room that once held Grace, and it is a special Sunday seating at a restaurant whose regular dinner service runs Tuesday through Saturday.
Tickets are prepaid on OpenTable. The six-course tasting is $120 per person, or $170 with the wine pairing, and parties of 1 to 20 can book.
A tasting that starts in Sardinia
Secchi’s menu is a guided six-course Italian tasting, billed as a traditional itinerary through flavors he says most diners never meet at an Italian table. “I truly believe there are so many incredible dishes that aren’t showcased to the majority of people who eat Italian food, and it would mean the world to me to be able to introduce as many people to the flavor profiles of the parts of Italy where my family came from.”
Sardinia, the island his father’s family comes from, sits at the center of that promise, with Emilia-Romagna, the northern region of ragù, Parmigiano-Reggiano and stuffed pasta, on the same menu. The individual courses have not been published. What is set is the shape of the night: one sitting at 7 p.m., a chef-guided progression, and an optional wine pairing poured with the food.
Susu announced the dinner on Instagram the same week tickets went live, asking diners to grab a seat and pointing them to OpenTable and the restaurant’s bio. The OpenTable listing frames the menu as an homage to Secchi’s father’s homeland and keeps the tasting prepaid, so the table is settled before anyone sits down. Wine is built into the $170 ticket and is prepaid with the tasting.
The Randolph Street room that used to be Grace
Susu opened on Feb. 27, 2026, in the 6,000-square-foot West Loop space that once held Grace, the three-Michelin-star restaurant that made this stretch of Randolph a pilgrimage address. Owner Paul Alqas and operational partner Chase Meyer, the pair behind Lincoln Park’s Medi, rebuilt the room with designer Mark Trace as a sequence of moods: a low-lit lounge, a marble bar, and a dining room with hand-carved wood and murals by chef-artist Won Kim. A 12-seat private dining room, framed by sculptural wooden wings, is where the restaurant later launched Kan Zaman, its 11-course tasting.
Executive chef and partner Alexander Willis, who cooked at Hog & Hominy, Dusek’s Board & Beer and Moody Tongue, built Susu as a MediterrAsian steakhouse, folding Lebanese and Assyrian family cooking together with time he spent living in Asia. The nightly menu is his. On Nov. 15 he hands the kitchen to Secchi for the Italian tasting.
The room is built for a long evening. As the night goes on the music rises and the 6,000-square-foot floor, already divided between lounge, bar and dining room, takes on the energy of a late Mediterranean night, especially on Saturdays, when dinner service runs until midnight. General manager Max Shapiro, who came from The Alinea Group’s Roister and St. Clair Supper Club, runs the front of the house. Willis, a Level One Certified Sake Professional, had a hand in a wine and sake list that reaches for bottles from Lebanon, Greece and Japan alongside Champagne, and the cocktail list folds sumac, jasmine and Arabic coffee into the glass.
On ordinary Wednesdays the restaurant also runs The Wednesday Cellar, a half-off promotion on select bottles during dinner. That offer is a regular-service extra, not part of the Secchi ticket. Kan Zaman, the 11-course tasting in the 12-seat private room, remains the house’s own long-format menu, with dishes that have included langoustine in a sake croustade and wagyu short rib shawarma. Nov. 15 is a different night: a guest chef, a six-course Italian tasting, and a single 7 p.m. seating in a restaurant that is usually dark on Sundays.
What Susu cooks when the steaks come out
On a regular night the raw bar and mezze come first: wagyu steak tartare with toum and sumac onions, a tabbouleh Caesar with tahini dressing and a chicken-skin crumble, and the loaded potato borek with egg yolk jam, crème fraîche and smoked Kaluga caviar. From the grill, the mashawi list runs from a prime filet and a wagyu hanger to a four-ounce pour of Japanese A5 Miyazaki, finished with sauces such as teriyaki demi, harissa au poivre and lobster hollandaise. Susu’s Table is the house’s own chef-guided feast, $125 or $175 per person, with a $60 wine pairing, and everyone at the table joins in.
Other plates that define the room include grilled Spanish octopus with date tare and red chermoula, spicy grilled prawns with coconut cashew dukkah, and black truffle agnolotti with lemon-caper ricotta, pecorino, pine nuts and mint. Sides stay in the same register: batata harra of wagyu-confit marble potatoes with garlic, chilis and shankleesh; braised hindbeh greens with a pepper vinaigrette and aleppo crunch; and whipped potatoes finished with bone marrow jus. Happy hour, Tuesday and Wednesday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and Thursday and Friday from 4 to 5:30 p.m., is the early window for the bar, before the dining room fills.
Dessert has become its own reason to linger. The kitchen flames a baked Alaska of walnut ice cream, pistachio mousse and chiffon cake, then finishes the night with seasonal knafeh. On weekend mornings, the same address flips into a bakery and breakfast counter, with a Wagyu sujuk sandwich and Levantine-French pastries from the same kitchen.
How to spend Nov. 15 at Susu Chicago
Reservations for the Secchi dinner are on OpenTable, prepaid, for Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, at 7 p.m. only. Book through Susu’s OpenTable page, where the experience is listed as the 6 Course Italian Tasting Menu. The dress code is business casual. Street parking is the listed option along Randolph. The restaurant’s public number is (312) 248-8097.
Susu’s regular dinner hours are Tuesday and Wednesday 5 to 10 p.m., Thursday 4 to 10 p.m., Friday 4 to 11 p.m., and Saturday 4 p.m. to midnight, with happy hour early in the evening Tuesday through Friday. The restaurant is otherwise closed Sunday and Monday, which is why this tasting reads as a one-night takeover on a night the dining room is usually dark. For more one-night tables around the city this season, ChiVibe’s November and December dinner calendar runs in date order. avec, a few blocks east on Randolph, is in the middle of its own West Loop chapter, with a larger room and a Château Musar dinner already on the books.
Susu Chicago at a glance
- Address: 652 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60661 (West Loop)
- Guest chef dinner: Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, 7 p.m.; guided six-course Sardinian and Emilia-Romagna tasting with Gianni Secchi
- Tickets: $120 per person for the tasting, $170 with the wine pairing, prepaid on OpenTable; parties of 1 to 20
- Executive chef: Alexander Willis; owners Paul Alqas and Chase Meyer
- Regular dinner hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 5 to 10 p.m.; Thursday 4 to 10 p.m.; Friday 4 to 11 p.m.; Saturday 4 p.m. to midnight; closed Sunday and Monday
- Dress: business casual
- Website: susuchicago.com; reservations on OpenTable
Susu Chicago FAQ
When is the Gianni Secchi dinner at Susu Chicago?
The Gianni Secchi dinner at Susu Chicago is Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, at 7 p.m. It is a one-night, chef-guided six-course Italian tasting at 652 W Randolph St in the West Loop, a special Sunday seating at a restaurant that is otherwise closed on Sundays. Tickets are prepaid on OpenTable.
How much is the Susu Chicago Italian tasting with Gianni Secchi?
The six-course tasting with Gianni Secchi at Susu Chicago is $120 per person, or $170 with the wine pairing. Tickets are prepaid on OpenTable, and parties of 1 to 20 can book for the Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, dinner. The individual courses have not been published.
How do I book the Gianni Secchi tasting at Susu Chicago?
Book the Gianni Secchi tasting at Susu Chicago on OpenTable, where the restaurant lists a 6 Course Italian Tasting Menu for Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, at 7 p.m. The ticket is prepaid. Susu also points diners to the same OpenTable link from its Instagram and bio.
Where is Susu Chicago, and what neighborhood is it in?
Susu Chicago is at 652 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60661, in the West Loop. The steakhouse occupies the former Grace space. Regular dinner service runs Tuesday through Saturday, and the Secchi tasting is a special 7 p.m. seating on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026.
Who is cooking at Susu Chicago on Nov. 15, 2026?
Guest chef Gianni Secchi cooks a guided six-course tasting at Susu Chicago on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, an homage to his father’s homeland that draws on Sardinia and Emilia-Romagna. Executive chef Alexander Willis leads the restaurant’s regular MediterrAsian steakhouse menu with owners Paul Alqas and Chase Meyer.
What is the dress code at Susu Chicago?
Susu Chicago lists a business casual dress code. The Nov. 15, 2026, Gianni Secchi tasting is a seated, prepaid six-course dinner at 7 p.m. in the West Loop dining room at 652 W Randolph St, so a polished evening look fits the room.
Further reading
- Susu Chicago official site
- Book the Gianni Secchi tasting on OpenTable
- Susu’s Instagram announcement
- OpenTable’s opening guide to Susu in the West Loop
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