Of all the various pursuits after a career in Big Law, the restaurant business has long enticed many a large firm lawyer to try their hand at something new.

Jonathan Nelms recently left the partnership ranks at Baker McKenzie to take his chances as a restaurateur, opening up Supra, the first establishment in the nation’s capital to offer Georgian food, or a cuisine based on what’s traditionally served not in the southern U.S. state, but the former Soviet satellite of Georgia.