Chefs

Hopleaf’s Michael Roper Explains How He’s Survived 27 Years in the Restaurant World

When we talked to Michael Roper for the May/June 2017 beer-themed issue of Plate, he revealed that his then 25-year-old gastropub in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood never had a burger on the menu. “And I don’t know that we ever will,” he added. Two years later, they...