A commercial building at Broadway and Sheridan Road in Uptown, south of the 4800 block of Broadway. Photo: Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A liquor-license application filed this fall is the latest public sign that chef Eric Roldan is still working to open Marina’s Supper Club at 4804 N. Broadway, next door to the Green Mill, in the old Crew Bar & Grill space.
Hoodline reported on Oct. 30 that the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection had a retailer’s liquor-license application on file for that address, and that the space was under construction. The same account noted that published opening dates have not agreed with one another. Block Club Chicago wrote in April that the supper club was slated to open “later this summer.” A later WhatNow report, cited by Hoodline, pointed to around February 2027. Hoodline wrote that it had not confirmed a firm date with Roldan.
What is consistent is the concept. Roldan, who started Marina’s as an Avondale ghost kitchen in 2021 and opened Marina’s Bistro and Rum Bar in Uptown in 2023, has described the Broadway project as a Puerto Rican supper club with a refined menu, live music and a rum-cocktail bar. In an April news release quoted by Block Club, he called it an experience “that celebrates Puerto Rican culture in a way Chicago hasn’t seen before,” and the release described it as expected to be the first Puerto Rican supper club in the country.
Crew Bar & Grill closed in 2017 after a long run on that block. The Green Mill is next door. Until Roldan names an opening night, the license notice and the construction are what neighbors can actually see.
