Root Collective, a restaurant group founded by Mark Robertson and Mike Sullivan, has launched the Mexican-inspired Cantina 1910—a reference to the Mexican Revolution—in Chicago.
Locally based D+K Architects and Interiors conceived the 180-seat restaurant, which is located in the city’s Andersonville neighborhood.
The building includes a lower-level preservation kitchen, two first-floor dining rooms, one second-floor dining room, and a 1,400-square-foot rooftop farm—to debut next fall. A steel staircase connects the levels and features decorative, vintage-inspired signage.
A two-story atrium at the entrance is equipped with floor-to-ceiling windows and a nine-piece lighting installation by local lighting designer Ted Harris, who also conceived three fixtures in the main dining room. Here, a hostess stand flanks a large bar facing a mural by artist Ches Perry of locally based Right Way Signs. A group of farmhouse tables made with reclaimed wood provides seating near the bar and sits beneath four suspended light fixtures.
