Prime & Provisions

LaSalle and Wacker, Supper Club Light: Prime & Provisions

The Loop at night still has a civic dinner hour. LaSalle meets Wacker above the river, offices emptying, the water holding the last of the day. Prime & Provisions occupies 222 North LaSalle in a 12,000-square-foot house that looks back to the supper clubs of the 1920s: two floors, a bar that takes a martini seriously, dining rooms that overlook the channel, and the understanding that a steak at night is still a reason to leave home. The Diamond guest—professionals, couples, people who dress for town—will feel the scale at the door. This is not a 44-seat experiment. It is downtown hospitality in the older form.

Luke Stoioff and David Rekhson opened the room in 2015 when this bank of the river was still a gamble. DineAmic Hospitality has since built a Chicago group around it. The steakhouse itself stayed put. A fire after Thanksgiving 2025 closed the house at the end of its best year; it returned in 2026 with the patio rebuilt, a vine-covered pergola on Wacker, and the same bet on beef. All of the steak comes from Meats by Linz, a family purveyor of cattle raised without hormones or antibiotics and finished with Wisconsin grass-fed butter. That is the farm line on this list: not a rooftop planter, a Midwestern herd treated as the point of the plate. Traditional comfort here is celebration. You come to sit down to Prime and to stay.

The interior is the argument for replacing a small room. Ground floor and second floor, banquettes, a bar with live music on Thursday through Saturday, river glass, and enough space that two people can hold a table without borrowing the next conversation. Service is steakhouse service: the cut explained, the wine poured, the onion soup as hot as it should be. Valet begins at four. You dress for the Loop. You are received as if the evening were the appointment.

Order as a supper club intends. French onion soup is the house beginning and should not be skipped. Oysters and a seafood tower sit beside the beef for tables that want both land and water. The Linz Prime cuts are the signature; ask what is eating well and take a steak finished as the kitchen finishes it, with that grass-fed butter. Charred octopus appears among the first plates. A wedge or a potato side belongs on the table. Prime pie is the dessert that travels home when the night should not end at the savory course. Two people should take soup or oysters, one great steak to share or two smaller cuts, and time in the bar if the dining room is spoken for. Dinner is the Diamond. Lunch exists on weekdays and is not this award. Saturday and Sunday open later. Book ahead. The room is large and still fills.

The limitations are those of a downtown steakhouse. The check is a luxury check. Guests who want a Tuscan loft should stay at Coco Pazzo. Guests who want Kinzie Street darkness should go to Bavette’s. Guests who want a West Town chop house already have Boeufhaus. Live music lives in the bar, not at every table.

Prime & Provisions is a Citywide Spotlight Diamond Destination for dinner because it restores a Loop night of scale: river light, cloth, family cattle, and a supper-club room that treats steak as an evening. Choosing this house over a national steak chain is a choice for one Chicago corner, for Linz beef, and for the older amenity of being seated above the water after dark. The comfort is traditional and complete—a chair, a cut, a view of the river, and the sense that dinner downtown is still worth dressing for.