Ai Japanese Restaurant and Lounge Prices in Chicago, IL 60654

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Hours of Operation

  • Hours may fluctuate. For detailed hours of operation, please contact the store directly.

Restaurant Menu

Soups, Salads and Appetizers
Miso Soup $3.50
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Kabocha Corn Soup $4.50
Creamy Japanese pumpkin and corn soup topped with chives.
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Edamame $4.50
Steamed soybean pods.
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House Salad $3.50
Mixed greens topped with ginger carrot dressing.
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Seaweed Salad $5.50
Assorted wakame seaweed and tofu served with vinaigrette dressing.
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Sunomono Moriawase $10.50
Shrimp, octopus, and whitefish with dashi vinaigrette sauce.
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Goma Ae $5.50
Blanched spinach served with black and white sesame dressing.
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Gyu Tataki $9.50
Thinly sliced seared beef with daikon and carrots withc hives, radish, and kaiware.
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Bagna Cauda $10.50
Shrimp and squid seasoned with garlic, olive oil, and anchovy.
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Crab and Shrimp Cake $9.50
Panko battered shrimp and crab cake served with a house tartar sauce.
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Toro Tartar $12.50
Chopped o-toro tuna served over creamy soft tofu and ceviche sauce, topped with fried spring roll skins.
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Hamachi Carpaccio $15.50
Thinly sliced yellowtail topped with ceviche, cilantro, and citurs ohba sauce.
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Tempura Moriawase $9.50
Tempura battered fried shrimp and assorted vegetables.
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Beef Asparagus Maki $11.50
Grilled asparagus wrapped with sliced beef topped with honey pear sauce and shaved almonds.
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Hamachi Kama Shio $10.50
Grilled yellowtail collar with salt.
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Hamachi Kama Tare $10.50
Grilled yellowtail collar with teriyaki sauce.
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Madai Agedashi $7.50
Two pieces of tempura fried Japanese sea bream snapper with fried tofu all in a tempura sauce. topped with chives and momiji oroshi.
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Sake Ceviche $6.50
Chopped fresh salmon with ceviche sauce and topped with avocado, ikura and sour cream mayo. Served with satsumaimo chips.
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Mozzarella Cheese Agedashi $9.50
Tempura mozzarella cheese, red snapper, and zucchini with dashi sauce.
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Agedashi Tofu $5.50
Without madai.
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Kitchen Entrees
Chicken Teriyaki $12.00
Grilled chicken with sauteed broccoli, teriyaki sauce in a crispy bowl.
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Salmon Teriyaki $14.50
Walnut and rosemary encrusted Norweigan salmon garnished with fried angel hair pasta and skewers of zucchini and cherry tomatoes.
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Seabass Cartoccio $16.50
California seabass baked in lemon butter with asparagus, shimeji, and enoki mushrooms.
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Chaliapin Steak $16.50
New York strip steak with ground onions, togarshi vinegar and ponzu sauce.
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Wasabi Filet Mignon $21.50
Wasabi-rubbed 6 oz. filet mignon served over Japanese sweet potato.
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Bento Box
Chicken Teriyaki Bento Box $23.00
Chicken in a teriyaki sauce. Served with seasonal white fish sunomono in Japanese vinaigrette, seasonal chef's choice sashimi, shrimp and vegetable tempura, agedashi tofu, miso soup and rice.
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Chicken Katsu Bento Box $23.00
Panko battered chicken flash fried and served with a Japanese bbq dipping sauce. Served with seasonal white fish sunomono in Japanese vinaigrette, seasonal chef's choice sashimi, shrimp and vegetable
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Salmon Teriyaki Bento Box $24.00
Scottish salmon topped with walnut and rosemary and teriyaki sauce. Served with seasonal white fish sunomono in Japanese vinaigrette, seasonal chef's choice sashimi, shrimp and vegetable tempura, age
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Beef Teriyaki Bento Box $25.00
Tender cuts of New York strip steak in a teriyaki sauce. Served with seasonal white fish sunomono in Japanese vinaigrette, seasonal chef's choice sashimi, shrimp and vegetable tempura, agedashi tofu,
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Honey Miso Steak Bento Box $26.00
Grilled New York strip steak served with our house made honey miso sauce. Served with seasonal white fish sunomono in Japanese vinaigrette, seasonal chef's choice sashimi, shrimp and vegetable tempur
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Sushi Entrees
Tuna Don $20.50
Assorted cuts of tuna served over a bed of kampyo, gari, unagi, seasoned sushi rice. Served with miso soup.
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Chirashi Sushi $28.50
Tuna, octopus, salmon, whitefish, hamachi, uni, ikura on a bef of kampyo, gari, unagi seasoned sushi rice. Served with miso soup.
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Unagi Don $20.00
Cooked freshwater eel served over kampyo, gari, adn unagi seasoned steamed rice. Served with miso soup.
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Sushi Moriawase $28.50
Chef's assortment of nigiri served with spicy tuna maki. Served with miso soup.
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Sashimi Sushi Moriawase $29.50
Chef's selection of sashimi and nigiri served with spicy tuna maki. Served with miso soup.
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Nigiri and Sashimi
Salmon Flight $12.50
Taste cuts of salmon.
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White Fish Flight $18.00
Taste cuts of white fish.
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Tuna Flight $36.00
Taste cuts of tuna.
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Toro Flight $39.00
Taste cuts of toro.
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Roe Flight $12.00
Array of infused tobiko.
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Hamachi $3.50
Yellowtail.
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Spicy Hamachi Toro $4.00
Fatty yellowtail with Japanese yuzu pepper.
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Hirame $3.50
Fluke.
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Madai $4.00
Japanese sea bream snapper.
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Shima Aji $4.00
Striped jack
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Botan Ebi $4.00
Botan shrimp, head served fried.
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Sake $3.00
Salmon.
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Zuke Sake $3.00
Marinated salmon.
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Kunsei Sake $3.50
Smoked salmon.
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Beni Toro $3.50
Fatty salmon
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Akami Tuna $3.00
Lean tuna.
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Super White Tuna $3.00
Escolar.
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Chu-Toro $6.50
Medium fatty tuna.
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O-Toro $8.00
Premium fatty tuna.
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Aburi Toro $8.50
Torched fatty tuna.
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Tuna Avocado $3.50
Tuna topped with avocado and wasabi mayo.
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Hotate $3.00
Kokkaido scallop.
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Kani $4.00
Crab
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O-ebi $2.50
Tiger prawn.
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Botan Ebi Mayo $4.50
Botan shrimp with torched mayo, head served fried.
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Tako $3.00
Octopus.
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Tamago $2.50
Sweet egg omelet.
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Tobiko $2.50
Flying fish roe; black, red, yellow, orange, or wasabi.
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Ikura $3.50
Salmon roe.
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Uni $4.50
Sea urchin.
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Uni-Ika $4.50
Squid and sea urchin.
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Unagi $4.00
Freshwater eel.
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Unagi Sansho $4.50
Freshwater eel with mountain pepper.
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Smoked Duck $4.00
Cherrywood smoked.
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Mongo Ika $2.50
Giant squid.
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Kappa Negi-Toro $4.50
Chopped fatty tuna served gunkkan wrapped in cucumber topped with negi.
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Spicy Tako $6.95
Two pieces of spicy octups nigiri wrapped with seaweed.
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Spicy Hotate $6.95
Two pieces of spicy scallop nigiri topped with avocado and wrapped with seaweed.
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Uni-Hotate $4.50
Torched sea urchin and scallop.
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Standard Maki
Alaskan Maki $6.50
King salmon, avocado.
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California Maki $7.50
Crab, avocado, cucumber.
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Futo Maki $10.50
Shrimp, eel, tamago, spinach, kampyo, shitake.
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Garden Maki $6.50
Carrots, asparagus, shitake, spinach.
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Hawaiian Maki $6.50
Tuna, avocado.
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Negi Hama Maki $6.50
Yellowtail, scallions.
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Negi Toro Maki $8.50
Fatty tuna, scallions.
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Philadelphia Maki $6.50
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, cucumber.
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Rainbow Maki $10.50
Our California maki topped with assorted seafood.
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Salmon Skin Maki $6.50
Smoked toasted salmon skin, kaiware, cucumber, yamagobo.
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Scorpion Maki $9.50
Fried calamari, kaiware, cucumber, masago, chili sauce.
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Spicy Tempura Ebi Maki $7.50
Shrimp tempura, green onion.
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Spider Maki $10.50
Fried soft shell crab, cucumber, avocado, scallion topped with tuna flakes.
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Tempura Satsumaimo Maki $6.50
Tempura sweet potato.
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Tempura Shitake Maki $6.50
Tempura battered, fried shitake.
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Unagi Cucumber Maki $8.50
Freshwater eel, cucumber.
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Unagi Sushi Tempura Maki $8.50
Tempura freshwater eel.
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Spicy Tuna Maki $6.95
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Firecracker Maki $6.95
Spicy tuna, tempura crunch, and jalapeno.
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AI Signature Maki
Chef Hemmi Veggie Maki $14.50
Our Garden maki topped with cucumber and moro-miso, mango, endive and sashyo, avocado and nori paste.
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Chef Hemmi Spicy Tuna Maki $14.50
Spicy tuna topped with spicy tako, avocado, spicy mayo and ikura, walnuts, rosemary, cucumber wrapped tempura flakes with wasabi mayo and masago and jalapeno.
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Dragon Maki $14.95
Shrimp tempura and tamago topped with slices of unagi and avocado.
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Madai Ceviche Maki $14.95
Avocado and cucumber topped with madai, ceviche sauce, cilantro and togarashi.
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Orange Maki $14.95
Shrimp tempura and scallions with fresh salmon brushed with ponzu, chivies, black tobiko and momoji oroshi.
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Soft Shell Crab Volcano Maki $14.95
Cucumber, avocado, tempura crunch topped with chopped soft shell crab and spicy mayo sauce.
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Tropical Mango Maki $14.95
Tuna and mango topped with slices of avocado and traditional koshyu grape sauce.
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Crazy Jalapeno Maki $14.95
Akami tuna and hamachi wrapped in soy paper with avocado, cilantro, jalapeno and wasabi infused tobiko topped with sour cream and cherry tomatoes all served atop spicy mayo.
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Habanero Lobster Maki $15.95
Tempura fried Maine lobster with kampyo, ginger, mango, and avocado topped with harbanero ceviche, capers, cilantro, and sour cream mayo.
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Tako Spicy Tuna Maki $14.95
Marinated tako, cucumber and tempura crunch topped with spicy tuna drizzled with unagi sauce and wasabi mayo.
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Hotate Volcano Maki $6.95
Two pieces of smoked salmon and cucumber maki crowned with spicy scallop and spicy mayo and torched.
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Red Dragon Maki $14.95
Soft shell crab, jalapeno and spicy mayo topped with tuna and avocado. Drizzled with unagi sauce and chili sauce.
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Noodles
Tanuki Udon $9.50
Udon noodles served with shiitake, green onion, mitsuba, kamaboko, inari age, and tempura crunch.
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Organic Vegetarian Cha Soba $9.50
Organic cha soba noodles with mixed vegetables with konbu brother.
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Nabeyaki Udon $15.50
Japanese style beef strips and egg over udon noodles with a seide of shrimp and vegetable tempura.
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Lunch Soup, Salads and Appetizers
Miso Soup (Lunch) $3.50
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Kabocha Corn Soup (Lunch) $4.50
Creamy Japanese pumpkin and corn soup topped with chives.
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Edamame (Lunch) $4.50
Steamed soybean pods.
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House Salad (Lunch) $3.50
Mixed greens topped with ginger carrot dressing.
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Seaweed Salad (Lunch) $5.50
Assorted wakame seaweed, tofu served with vinaigrette dressing.
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Sunomono Moriawase (Lunch) $10.50
Shrimp, octopus, whitefish with dashi vinaigrette sauce.
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Goma Ae (Lunch) $5.50
Blanched spinach served with black and white sesame dressing.
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Ebi Fry (Lunch) $5.00
Panko battered fried shrimp.
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Harumaki (Lunch) $4.00
Japanese vegetarian spring rolls.
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Gyoza (Lunch) $4.00
Pork and vegetable dumplings
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Ebi Shumai (Lunch) $4.00
Shrimp and vegetable dumplings.
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Chicken Kara Age (Lunch) $4.00
Japanese style popcorn chicken.
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Cheese Spring Rolls (Lunch) $4.00
Fried spring rolls filled with mozzarella cheese and spinach.
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Tako Yaki (Lunch) $4.00
Balls of breaded octopus with kewpee.
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Lunch Entrees
Sushi Moriawase (Lunch) $18.95
Choice of Spicy Tuna or California along with 10 pieces of Chef's Choice Nagiri.
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Maki Moriawase (Lunch) $13.95
Choice of two maki.
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Chicken Teriyaki Bento Box (Lunch) $13.50
Grilled chicken with sauteed broccoli and teriyaki sauce. All bento boxes come with a side of house salad with ginger dressing, two pieces of spicy tuna maki, edamame, mashed Japanese sweet potato, s
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Salmon Teriyaki Bento Box (Lunch) $13.50
Walnut and rosemary encrusted Norwegian salmon with teriyaki sauce. All bento boxes come with a side of house salad with ginger dressing, two pieces of spicy tuna maki, edamame, mashed Japanese sweet
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Honey Miso Steak Bento Box (Lunch) $15.00
Grilled New York strip steak served with homemade honey miso sauce. All bento boxes come with a side of house salad with ginger dressing, two pieces of spicy tuna maki, edamame, mashed Japanese sweet
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Lunch Nigiri and Sashimi
Salmon Flight (Lunch) $12.50
Taste cuts of salmon.
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White Fish Flight (Lunch) $18.00
Taste Cuts of white fish.
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Tuna Flight (Lunch) $36.00
Taste cuts of tuna.
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Toro Flight (Lunch) $39.00
Taste cuts of toro.
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Roe Flight (Lunch) $12.00
Array of infused tobiko.
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Hamachi (Lunch) $2.50
Yellowtail.
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Spicy Hamachi Toro (Lunch) $4.00
Fatty yellowtail with Japanese Yuzu pepper.
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Hirame (Lunch) $2.50
Fluke.
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Madai (Lunch) $4.00
Japanese sea bream snapper.
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Shima Aji (Lunch) $4.00
Striped jack.
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Shime Saba (Lunch) $3.50
Marinated mackerel.
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Sake (Lunch) $2.50
Salmon.
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Zuke Sake (Lunch) $3.00
Marinated salmon.
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Kunsei Sake (Lunch) $3.50
Smoked salmon.
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Beni Toro (Lunch) $3.50
Fatty salmon.
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Akami Tuna (Lunch) $2.50
Lean tuna.
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Super White Tuna (Lunch) $3.00
Escolar.
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Kappa Negi-Toro (Lunch) $4.50
Chopped fatty tuna served gunkkan wrapped in cucumber topped with negi.
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Chu-Toro (Lunch) $6.50
Medium fatty tuna.
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O-Toro (Lunch) $8.00
Premium fatty tuna.
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Aburi Toro (Lunch) $8.50
Torched fatty tuna.
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Tuna Avocado (Lunch) $3.50
Tuna topped with avocado and wasabi mayo.
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Hotate (Lunch) $3.00
Hokkaido scallop.
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Kani (Lunch) $4.00
Crab.
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O-ebi (Lunch) $2.50
Tiger prawn.
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Botan Ebi (Lunch) $4.00
Botan shrimp, head served fried.
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Botan Ebi Mayo (Lunch) $4.50
Botan shrimp with torched mayo, head served fried.
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Spicy Hotate (Lunch) $6.95
Two pieces of spicy scallop nigiri topped with avocado and wrapped with seaweed
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Tako (Lunch) $3.00
Octopus
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Tamago (Lunch) $2.50
Sweet egg omlet.
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Tobiko (Lunch) $2.50
Flying fish roe.
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Ikura (Lunch) $3.50
Salmon roe.
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Anago Shio (Lunch) $4.00
Sea eel and salt.
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Anago Tare (Lunch) $4.00
Sea eel and sauce.
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Unagi (Lunch) $4.00
Freshwater ell.
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Unagi Sansho (Lunch) $4.50
Freshwater eel with mountain pepper.
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Smoked Duck (Lunch) $4.00
Cherrywood smoked
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Mongo Ika (Lunch) $2.50
Giant squid.
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Spicy Tako (Lunch) $6.95
Two pieces of spicy octopus nigiri wrapped with seaweed
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Lunch Maki
Madai Ceviche (Lunch) $12.50
Avocado and cucumber topped with Japanese sea brea, ceviche sauce, cilantro and togarashi.
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Rainbow Spicy Walnut Tuna (Lunch) $12.50
Spicy tuna with walnuts and rosemary topped with assorted seafood.
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Dragon Maki (Lunch) $12.50
Shrimp tempura and tamago topped with slices of unagi and avocado.
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Salmon Skin Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Smoked salmon skin toasted, kaiware, cucumber yamagobo.
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Alaskan Maki (Lunch) $6.50
King salmon and avocado.
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Philadelphia Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, and cucumber.
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Cream Sake Maki (Lunch) $6.50
King salmon and cream cheese.
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Firecracker Maki (Lunch) $6.50
tuna spiced with chives and ra-yu, jalapeno, and tempura crunch.
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Spicy Tuna Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Tuna and chives.
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Hawaiian Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Tuna and avocado.
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Negi Toro Maki (Lunch) $8.50
Fatty tuna and scallions.
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Negi Hama Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Yellowtail and scallions.
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Rainbow Maki (Lunch) $10.50
Our California maki topped with assorted seafood.
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Spider Maki (Lunch) $10.50
Soft shell crab tempura, cucumber, avocado, scallion, ohba, spicy mayo drizzled with eel mayo.
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Scorpion Maki (Lunch) $9.50
Fried calamari, kaiware, cucumber, roe, and chili sauce.
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Spicy Tempura Ebi Maki (Lunch) $7.50
Shrimp tempura and green onion.
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California Maki (Lunch) $7.50
Crab, avocado, and cucumber.
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Futo Maki (Lunch) $10.50
Shrimp, eel, tamago, spinach, roe, kampyo, and shiitake.
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Garden Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Carrots, asparagus, shiitake, and spinach.
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Tropical Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Mango and avocado.
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Tempura Shiitake Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Shiitake tempura.
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Unagi Cucumber Maki (Lunch) $8.50
Freshwater eel and cucumber.
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Unagi Sushi Tempura Maki (Lunch) $8.50
Tempura sushi with freshwater eel, tamago, yamagobo, and spinach.
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Tempura Satsumaimo Maki (Lunch) $6.50
Sweet Potato tempura.
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Lunch Noodle Entrees
Tanuki Udon (Lunch) $9.50
Udon noodles served with shitake mushroom, green onion, mitsuba, kamaboko, inari age, and tempura crunch.
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Organic Vegetarian Cha Soba (Lunch) $9.50
Organic cha soba noodles with mixed vegetables with a konbu broth.
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Nabeyaki Udon (Lunch) $10.50
Japanese style beef strips and egg udon noodles with a side of shrimp and vegetable tempura.
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Sides
Extra Ginger $0.50
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Extra Wasabi $0.50
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Low Sodium Soy Sauce $0.50
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Fresh Wasabi $2.00
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Eel Sauce $1.00
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Oshinko $3.50
Pickled radish.
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Ponzu Sauce $1.00
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Quail Egg $1.00
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White Rice $2.00
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Sushi Rice $2.50
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Mashed Japanese Sweet Potato $3.50
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Spicy Mayo $1.00
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Chili Sauce $1.00
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Wasabi Mayo $1.00
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Teriyaki Sauce $1.00
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Shrimp Tempura $2.50
One piece.
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Ceviche Sauce $1.00
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