Chicago’s Coach House is a 22-seat tasting menu restaurant that aims to educate patrons on South Indian cuisine. Helmed by James Beard Award-nominated chef Zubair Mohajir, Coach House serves dishes from Mohajir’s home in Chennai and across the South Asian subcontinent. Mohajir’s menu combines recipes that are hundreds of years old with ingredients that customers may be more familiar with. “It helps our guest connect with something they’re familiar with when it comes to the texture of food,” says Mohajir of his South Indian khichdi, made with rice and lentils. “But then at the same time, we’re just blasting them with something that they’ve never had before.”