For the president-elect and next first lady, even a weekend date causes a stir.

On Saturday night, crowds clamored to watch Barack and Michelle Obama in downtown Chicago on what is believed to be their first night out since election night.

Their host? Larry Levy, a Ladue native who formed a restaurant enterprise after attending Northwestern University and moving to the Windy City.

The Obamas dined at Spiaggia, Levy’s swank Italian restaurant on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The restaurant’s dining room manager, Ian Louisignau, told the New York Post that the Obama’s sat in one of the private dining rooms at Spiaggia, where the Obama’s are frequent guests.

“They always have a good time, and they keep coming back,” Louisignau said.

Though Louisignau declined to say what the Obamas ordered, the menu at Spiaggia includes a panoply of enticing items: cured sturgeon, wood-roasted rabbit loin and sheep’s milk ricotta, to name a few.

Levy, whose firm also does hospitality for sports facilities, has a concessions contract at the Scottrade Center. He was a partner, as well, with childhood pal Ted Koplar in ~scape, a restaurant in the Central West End.