About
Our Story
Located in the historic Fulton Market district of Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, Rose Mary is Top Chef winner and James Beard-nominated Chef/Owner Joe Flamm’s debut restaurant, inspired by his Italian heritage and the bold, bright flavors of Croatian cuisine. The boisterous space—named for Flamm’s grandmothers, Mary and Mary Rose, and the herb rosemary, which grows natively along the Italian and Croatian coastlines—offers a seasonal menu of rustic yet refined dishes like handmade pastas, market vegetables, grilled fish and authentic Croatian fare like cevapi that encapsulate what Flamm has coined “Adriatic drinking food.”
Our Space
Designed by award-winning Los Angeles-based firm Studio UNLTD, Rose Mary’s dynamic restaurant interior with whitewashed brick walls, honey-colored oak millwork, and pale stone surfaces—all accented by moments of red clay and deep, azure blue tilework—reflects the utilitarian yet celebratory spirit of traditional family-run, age-old Croatian taverns known as konobas in Chicago's West Loop.
“Rose Mary is the culmination of everything I have done with my career. But more importantly, it’s the culmination of my personal journey thus far—a marriage of who I am, what I’ve learned, and the person I’ve built a life and a family with.”