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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

‘Shall I chew that for you, sir?’

The bar at Rooh, 736 W. Randolph St., which opened in Fulton Market in 2019. Note the staircase at the left. (Brian Rich/Sun-Times)

I turned 62 last week, and new indignities of age already are rushing at me, with their seltzer bottles and flappy paddles, the calliope of time wheezing derisively in the background. You’d think, at threescore and a pair, I’d expect them by now. But no.

We caught the 5:22 to Union Station Thursday night to take our younger son out for an elegant birthday dinner — his, not mine; our birthdays are less than a week apart. He chose Rooh, a trendy progressive Indian restaurant on West Randolph Street.

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