The finer dining soul food restaurant Nafsi just opened inside the historic South Shore Cultural Center , a former country club that once barred Black and Jewish people from membership on the South Side of Chicago.
Executive chef Dondee Robinson, last at the critically acclaimed Bronzeville Winery , has created a menu reclaiming the space, with a nod to the family history of restaurant owner Donnell Digby, best known for The Woodlawn venue.
“To have a Black-owned restaurant, and a Black executive chef in an establishment that once didn’t want us here,” Robinson said, “it’s a statement.”…