Arami - Chicago

Fantastic sushi. Great service. Very authentic. Great for date night or dinner with friends.

I wish I could give Arami 10 stars. We had the absolute best experience. We were seated at the counter, which is such a treat being able to interact with the chefs. We decided to do a la carte and ordered: lychii cocktail (yum), toro tartare bites (delicious, but very small bite), all four specialty sashimi and nigiri (you absolutely have to get the zuke sake hotste and zuke naguro kani though all four were great) as well as the trio maki, hamachi suzuki and maguro spicy sake (chefs kiss to all three). Which was the perfect amount of food. To our surprise we then received an additional roll and hamachi from the chef we had been chatting with. We finished the meal off with mochi and a shot of their special sake. Fantastic experience with perfectly attentive staff. Thank you Arami!

This place has a few amazing dishes. I would eat here for some sushi, while it's not my favorite sushi it's a great overall sushi place. I think it lacks creativity and robust rolls like many other sushi places. However what it lacks in the food category, it makes up in service and atmosphere. Now the bowl of mushrooms was amazing. The sushi rolls were like a 7 outta 10.

Excellent quality fish always, including finest grades of tuna.

Food was really good but service was not great and extremely slow. All the servers were very nice so I think it just might be a lack of staff? Although not all of the seats were full.We waited almost 20 minutes between rolls twice. We kept having to ask for little things: soy, wasabi and ginger on the side of the 3 rolls we received.At the end, I actually wanted more food but didn’t want to wait another 20-30 minutes it.I just think for a place that has a omakase option and charges a higher price point, the service should be a little tighter.