-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email There is no shortage of dining options in Chicago . But perhaps one of the most ambitious and interesting projects to arrive on the scene is the Omakase Room at Sushi-San . The miniscule restaurant only seats 10, operates just three days a week and has a limit of two seatings per night (in part to ensure quality control).
Guests are taken through an 18-course meal that could vary from one seating to the next within the same night, due to its selection of rare seafood selection s from the Fukuoka Market in Japan. "This might get me in trouble but this is the same omakase experience you'd get in Japan,” says Rudy Valenta, a Chicago native of Japanese descent who’s split his time between the U.S.
and Japan since childhood, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. “That's the value this experience brings." At $250 per person (not including taxes, gratuity or beverages), it’s one of the city’s most expensive meals.
However, a closer look at the mechanics of the business and the team’s attention to detail, will have you wondering if the experience shouldn’t actually cost more. Related Observations from a Chicago Dunkin’ Donuts The Omakase Room is found nestled deep within its 110-seater sister restaurant Sushi-San—both owned and operated by Lettuce Entertain You —creating a symbiotic relationship that allows the tiny, high-end sushi bar to thrive. Because the reality is that a place like the Omakase Room could not exist as an .