About RPM Restaurants

RPM is a group of restaurants from celebrity couple Bill and Giuliana Rancic, award-winning executive chef Doug Psaltis and siblings R.J., Jerrod and Molly Melman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. The RPM brand focuses on sourcing the highest quality ingredients and providing guests with exceptional service for a dining experience unlike any other. RPM Italian and RPM Steak are located in the River North neighborhood of downtown Chicago, with a second location of RPM Italian in Washington, D.C.’s Mount Vernon district. A fourth collaboration – RPM On The Water – is slated to open Fall 2019 on the Chicago riverfront.

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Accolades & Press

RPM Steak named one Chicago Magazine's
50 Best Restaurants

2018

Wine Spectator's The Best of Award of Excellence awarded to RPM Italian and RPM Steak

RPM Steak and RPM Italian named OpenTable's
Top 100 Hot Spot Restaurants in America

OpenTable

RPM Italian named one of the Best Pasta Restaurants Around DC

Washingtonian, 2018

Chicago Tribune calls RPM Steak a Chicago Restaurant that is Changing the Game

2016

RPM Italian named one of the Top 10 Best Italian Restaurants in Chicago

The Infatuation

"It take's a lot to become the most-popular burger at a restaurant known for its beef, but the burgers at RPM Steak are among the best in town."

Food Network

"No steakhouse better exemplifies this attention to balance and detail than RPM Steak"

Thrillist Chicago, 2016

"In a town where there is a steakhouse on every block,
RPM Steak is one that sticks out in my mind... there's nothing that compares to it"

Check, Please!

Bill & Giuliana
Rancic

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Celebrity power couple Bill and Giuliana Rancic – who are television personalities, New York Times best-selling authors, entrepreneurs, executive producers and marketing experts – have added restaurateurs to their long list of accomplishments as partners in the RPM brand. Dynamic and highly sought after as speakers, the duo travel around the world focusing on topics that continue to inspire and motivate audiences of all sizes.

Doug
Psaltis

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Chef / partner Doug Psaltis started working in his grandpa’s Greek diner in Queens, NY, at the age of 10 and hasn’t slowed down since. He has worked in some of the world’s most prestigious kitchens with the industry’s most lauded chefs including Alain Ducasse, David Bouley and Thomas Keller. Psaltis earned three stars from The New York Times as well as a Michelin star while running the kitchen at Geoffrey Zakarian's Country in NYC, and today he is behind some of Chicago’s most popular restaurants.

R.J., JERROD & MOLLY
MELMAN

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With more than a dozen restaurants to their names, the Melman siblings are responsible for some of downtown Chicago’s most sought-after spots. Their foray into LEYE partnership began with Hub 51 and has since grown to include Bub City, Three Dots and a Dash, RPM Italian, RPM Steak, Studio Paris, Ramen-san, il Porcellino, Bub City & Joe’s Live Rosemont and Sushi-san. They have also expanded concepts to Washington, D.C. and L.A. and are driving forces behind the nations’s premier BBQ and country music festival, Windy City Smokeout.

Introducing Giuliana Prosecco

Produced in the heart of Italy's Veneto region, this sparkling wine boasts a well balanced structure, dry nature and notes of soft peach and white petal.

Now available at RPM Italian and RPM Steak

About RPM Restaurants

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Accolades & Press

2018

OpenTable

Washingtonian, 2018

2016

The Infatuation

Food Network

Thrillist Chicago, 2016

Check, Please!

Bill & Giuliana Rancic

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Doug Psaltis

P

R.J., JERROD & MOLLY MELMAN

M

Introducing Giuliana Prosecco

Bill & Giuliana
Rancic

Doug
Psaltis

R.J., JERROD & MOLLY
MELMAN