Before Soho Chicken and Whiskey was known for its namesake, the Ohio City restaurant was Soho Kitchen and Bar. Opened in 2011 by husband-and-wife team Nolan Konkoski and Molly Smith, it’s evolving again 15 years later.
Konkoski and Smith met at Lopez, Michael Herschman’s now-shuttered Cleveland Heights restaurant, where he worked the kitchen and she the front of house. The pair later helped open Ohio City’s Momocho and Rocky River’s Tartine before launching a concept of their own.
“I had never made fried chicken before,” Konkoski says. “But we looked around the city and asked, ‘What are other cities doing well that ours isn’t?’”…