Found a diamond in the rough. Food was amazing - hella ginger. For some reason the chef kept…read moretelling me to buy a jeep and join his jeep crew. ‍

This sh* was bomb. Chef was a bit annoying and kept trying to get me smoke hookah. All good,…read morebecause I had a lot of fun here and left full and drunk and happy. Thanks, Chef Pon!

We knew nothing about this place. It was literally well placed for someplace we needed to go after…read more It was a great find! I got the See-Ew fried noodles with chicken. Excellent. My husband got the nigiri combo which came with five pair of sushi types (10 total pieces). He said it ranks as some of the best sushi meals he's had. Thick pieces. Well cooked rice. He also got a lychee martini which he enjoyed as well.

Visited for a girls night! LOVE the variety of dishes you can order with AYCE, not just BBQ meats…read more(but these were very good too!) they have everything from Korean fusion tacos to lumpia to noodle dishes, even fried oysters! There's also a good spread of things that go WITH your bbq meats (rice, lettuce wraps, bonchon). I thought it was so smart that they put your raw meat for the BBQ on a tea tier, so good for managing table space. They didn't really limit how much we could order at once which was nice (we were reasonable with our pace tho lol). Service was attentive and we were able to keep putting in orders whenever we needed! Very tasty and good quality for AYCE!

Great longtime favorite of Thai cuisine in Chicago, one of the city's best. It doesn't look like…read moremuch of a restaurant, but the food makes up for it. Thai Aree is about as authentic for flavor and spice as you can get, and it gets really spicy. Has a pretty well rounded menu of classic items to choose from. Prices are pretty okay for the portions and quality. After hearing such great things about it, we made our way here. It's kind of a small place. This is in a pretty boring area on Milwaukee Avenue with not much around it but garages and that kind of stuff. Also the building looked crappy. Of course we are skeptical. Anyway, we ordered because we were already here. It's about $11 for an entree, and we each got noodles. Also you have a protein choice. We each got these with tofu. As for the spice, we got medium. She had the Pad Thai. It looked pretty good, but the spice was the key. This was medium but still pretty spicy. I got the Pad See Ewe. This was a choice of stir fried thin or wide rice noodles. Got it with the wide ones which were good. This had broccoli, Chinese broccoli, eggs which I left out, and choice of protein, and I got the tofu. Creamy and hot. The very spicy level would have just overwhelmed the flavor it seems. Has to be a consideration if looking for authentic Thai food. It recently had a renovation. The menu has plenty for meat eaters as well as vegans and vegetarians.

Amazing customer service and food! I just stumbled upon this place as it was close to where my…read moredaughter plays volleyball and was looking for something quick and glad I came here! The mom and pop ran restaurant is so nice and so incredibly friendly! Will definitely come back again!

Takes credit card. The interior looks really nice,…read moreremodeled You can sit down and eat Lots of people coming in for to go for lunch. Popular dishes- fried rice, lo mein, Singapore fried rice Cambodian Noodle soup-lemon grass flavor. The meat tasted old Beef stew - beef was cooked well, and soft. The flavor was not very thick, not very rich. Not much tomato flavor. I was disappointed.

Googoo's is a 25 minute drive for me to get to and it's totally worth it! Firstly the ambiance and…read morevibe is really chill so a great casual place to eat. Second, the service was great! Shoutout to the wonderful owners for a great experience and talking to them was a joy. But most importantly- the food! It was great! We shared our orders so that we could taste them and everything was too good. The only thing I took home was rice because I ate everything at the dinner. Also, the iced coffee? Great energizer. I drank it so quickly, it was great! 5/5 will make the drive again!

I'm sitting here in my living room, mired by an early, uninvited awakening. It was not a thud. No…read morealarm. Just a gentle frazzle of sunlight stealing me from night. In no way had my body rested. Donned in dawn, my underwear-pajamas slightly slid down revealed a sad vision of man, sloppily tangled in ruffled sheets. Exposed. There is nothing pretty about me, I thought, as I pondered if the sunlight were judging what it saw. Before reaching my current perch on the living room couch, I sat in bed flicking through news in search of something good, but simultaneously only pausing on the bad. Glorifying in the doom, really. It was the pinch I needed to prove I was indeed awake. All day I seek the pinch of pain to prove I am not dreaming. Coffee, cats, clothes, splashof water, and 20 steps later I find myself in the planning pose, here in the living room. The planning pose is very much like the wake-startle, sans the sheets and exposed crack. It involves me laying here on the couch actually reading the articles I perused earlier. I like to rationalize that the information gleaned is to set me up for a day of human interaction. Perhaps it is a study session to get up to human-social-speed. Right now it is dawning on me -- my second uninvited dawn of the day -- that perhaps behavior isn't responsible humanity, it is prolonged self torment. The tighter pinch. The proverbial purple nurple of challenging my awakened state. Cats gather around me. One at my feet and the other curled beside my thigh. Am I king to them? They are fed. Surely they are not here in need of something. Have I done something to warrant this attention? My affection toward them is inconsistent. It ebbs in startling fits of overly attentive playing or petting followed by long droughts of disregard. My ambivalence as their king gives me this luxury, and supports my theory that they may think I am indeed king. This is the type of cyclical example loop I am using as evidence to propel me from the underwear'ed fat man the sun observed moments ago. Evidence that says: "See, Sun, I am more than the larva you spotlighted. I am a god! The cats are evidence! And they sleep in your sun-puddles in undisputed, recognizable perfection, not the ugly crack-exposed heap you found me in. You love them. They love me. So, pinch yourself, and stop judging me!" Obviously the coffee is working, or maybe the cats are doing their trick: making me feel accepted in the universe. Whatever the case may be, I pet my cat. Dander floats into the sun's beams and crystallizes in the air. If you've ever seen dust in a thinly sliced light beam at dawn you know: Hope is the accidental luck of shadows bouncing off of the chaos but always cutting through. Always meeting a surface. Penetrating the thickest of atmospheres and colliding on flowers and alleys, on well planned solar panels, on potholes, through any crack, on my crack, projecting obtuse triangles, acute bi-angles, and isosceles quad-tangles, even while penetrating deep into the sea, revealing all the magnificent details of art, and occasionally falling on me. Trees bend to it. I give the cat closest a good scratch behind the ear and look out the window at the trees greening in spring. A dog walker pauses to pick up excrement. A squirrel cowers behind a branch. The ramen restaurant on the corner is cut through by light warming empty tables; tables preparing to slurp up hungry, hopeful lunchers into the belly of contentment. Dark, seemingly an antagonist to light's hero demeanor, sheepishly slinks away, humbly realizing it is not the opposite of light, but the absence. "Beautiful," I think as I see the spicy broth of life warming in the sun glow beyond the glass. Yes. It is beautiful. It really is. I couldn't see how much in the dark but the rhythm out the window is now clear. I turn to my cat, who is winding down a purr. We share a slow-blink gaze at one another as the last sliver of dawn is replaced with shadow in my house. He moves to the window sill to soak in every second as it departs. "Welp, buddy. Nothing left now. Time to bend to the light"

Was very excited to try this place since I've heard a lot of good things. We had a reservation so…read morewe were seated pretty quickly but since the restaurant was small, we were placed at a 4-person table where me and my friend had to sit next to 2 random strangers which I wasn't really a fan of. Our server was very nice and attentive though, we knew what we wanted so we placed our order and received our food quickly too. I enjoyed The Monster ramen that I got, the broth was super flavorful and perfectly creamy. I loved the beef jam and Wagyu chashu, Although, I will say the noodles themselves didn't really stand out. I enjoyed my ramen but I'm not sure I would get it again. I would definitely come back to try their other ramen though.

They also use a fake name on Doordash called "Three Wheels Noodle". Either way, it's overly salty…read moreand seems more like Chinese food. The pad Thai was sticky and clumped together and tasted like they added peanut butter, which is typical for a Chinese fake-Thai restaurant. Let me be clear: There is no Thai recipe for Pad Thai that includes peanut butter! Crushed peanuts should be served on the side or sprinkled on top. What a mess!

Stopped by early evening on a Saturday, sat by the window. It's a cool space with a beautiful mural…read moreon the wall. Loved also that there was a May Day sign on the window. Service was friendly. I ordered wings and the Golden Curry Noodles. The wings!!! They were so crispy and good. The noodles were a pleasant surprise - I was just a tiny bit skeptical about the pickled vegetables, but the dish works well together. Flavor was great with a nice little kick to it. The only thing I didn't love was the texture of the noodles. I would have liked something a little doughier, but I suppose that's personal preference.

(Kari's Rating 6/10)…read more The first round of restaurant week were the dumplings. They were really good, the dumplings were supposed to be pork and shrimp, but I don't think there's shrimp in it-so they be lying. The second course was the cucumber salad. As a fellow Asian, it was relatively spicy. The feta did cut it, but as far as Asian fusion, it was still spicy. I did mistakenly eat all of it as the last round was a seasonal hash. It was such a huge portion. The potatoes were, spicy and delicious. The eggs were soft boiled but was that weird spot in between where they weren't ramen boiled but not quite American runny. Funny texture. It was kind of a lot of food for $30. Will definitely have left overs! I probably wouldn't come out all the way from River North.

Ambiance - casual, modern, 2nd floor has a really nice rooftop, super cute interior…read more Service - exceptional, our server was super attentive Food - loveeeee the gochugaru fries (we had to get another order), curry had a really good kick & chicken was tender

I've been coming here for years and I can't believe I've never written a review! This place, is…read moreprobably the best Japanese food in the Chicago area. The food they prepare uses fresh ingredients. The uni they serve is huge, creamy and sweet. I always order their uni toro tartare because it's the best! The food is innovative yet stay grounded in flavors. Hospitality is top notch and the decor is warm and inviting. I've never had a bad dish there! Highly recommend for date nights or small group gatherings!

Had a great experience at Kai Zan, was looking for my first omakase and came across them, very…read morehappy with the choice. The service is dedicated to each party inside, small but functional space where you genuinely feel taken care of throughout. Each course was explained in detail before every bite which I appreciated, and the craftsmanship behind each piece showed in their open kitchen. The kind of flavors you reminisce on shortly after finishing, wishing for more. The yellowtail stood out the most had me order an extra piece after the omakase wrapped up, highly recommend. No old fashioned on the menu but the beer I had alongside served as a solid palate cleanser between bites. Finished the night with the lava cake warm, fluffy, paired with ice cream and just enough to top it all off. -Mr.