Even before he knew what the word meant, Kevin Boehm knew he wanted to be a restaurateur. Though his journey was unconventional—he dropped out of college and took a chance on Panama City, Florida where he opened his first restaurant—Boehm is now a venerated F&B leader, known for his chef-driven, design-led restaurants in Chicago (the Girl and the Goat, Momotaro, and Swift & Sons, to name a few), all under the Boka Restaurant Group umbrella, the company he founded with partner Rob Katz.

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