Arami
- 1829 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, 60622, United States
- 25 - 70 USD • Japanese, Asian
Take Away
Signature takes on Japanese dishes, plus sake, for delivery or takeout Wed-Sun.
Arami
- 1829 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, 60622, United States
- 25 - 70 USD • Japanese, Asian
MICHELIN Guide’s Point Of View
Come to this bamboo-clad izakaya, with its comfortable sushi bar and soaring skylights, for impressively rendered small plates and specialty cocktails featuring Japanese spirits. The night’s tsukemono can reveal spicy okra, crisp hearts of palm and sweet burdock root. The nigiri selection might showcase New Zealand King salmon topped with pickled wasabi root. The robata produces grilled maitakes with Japanese sea salt and black garlic purée; and gani korroke, a crunchy, creamy crab croquette, is plated with togarashi-spiked mayonnaise.
Don’t turn down the all-ice cream dessert menu, which includes enticing flavors like coconut-cinnamon-banana. It comes nestled in granola-like bits of miso-graham cracker crumble for a finish as sweet as it is unique.
- = Bib Gourmand: good quality, good value cooking
- ò Simple restaurant
Specialty
- Zuke maguro kani or spicy Alaskan king crab wrapped with marinated tuna
- Wasabi shoyu marinated salmon, sesame, shiso, cucumber sunomono, white miso sauce
- Mochi, green tea
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