Chefs to Watch 2020: Ross Henke, Mundano, Chicago

Few things will humble a chef faster than opening a restaurant on the eve of a global pandemic. 

“We started really strong, and I thought we were doing a lot of things that were cool and mattered. They don’t matter,” says Ross Henke, executive chef of the new American restaurant Mundano, which opened in Chicago in February 2020 and closed eight months later. “Since the pandemic hit, nothing is more...