River North's Polished Steakhouse
RPM Steak is the Melman family's River North steakhouse. Built next door to RPM Italian and oriented around a more polished dining-room register and a deeper wine cellar. The format is American steakhouse at hotel-restaurant standards.
The cooking is prime-cuts-and-seafood at the level the River North business-dinner crowd expects: dry-aged steaks, fresh oysters, careful sides, and a wine programme that handles the celebration.
What to Order
Dry-aged ribeye or porterhouse. Properly-rendered, well-rested, sliced at the table. Tomahawk for a celebration table. Seafood tower as a starting course. The wine list rewards a confident Bordeaux or Napa order.
The Format
The dining room is well-spaced, comfortably-lit, and acoustically calibrated for a business conversation. Private dining accommodates larger parties.
Best Occasion: Close a Deal
RPM Steak handles a Chicago deal dinner with practised confidence. The address, the wine programme, the steakhouse format. Combine into the kind of meeting that signals seriousness without falling into pantomime.