Sushi Pink - A Sushi Place At 909 W. Washington

Some hits, some misses. This is not destination dining, and I don't think they are striving for that. I think it's more of a neighborhood spot. I wish them all the success they desire, and hope they do extremely well.

We went with one of their meals for two called "The Honey Set" for 50 bucks:

HONEY SET $50

2 miso soup
2 seaweed salad
1 dynamite
2 pcs tuna
2 pcs yellowtail
2 pcs salmon
2 pcs red snapper
2 pcs cook shrimp
2 pcs eel
6 pcs spicy tuna roll
6 pcs king in roll

Miso:

This was served a few degrees above body temp. Barely warm on the tongue. I prefer a much hotter presentation. It was standard issue except for one thing. It had a sweet tint to it. I've never encountered this before. Something was giving this a sweetness. I asked the Mrs. if she noticed this as well. She definitely did. We were both very unimpressed with the temp and the sweetness. I think we each made it through about half of our bowls and gave up. The sweetness was just not our thing, and it went from barely lukewarm to cold pretty quickly.

Seaweed Salad -

Much better luck with this, IMO. I actually really liked this. Nice and cold, the dressing wasn't overbearing with sweet, or vinegar, and there were some chile flakes that gave it a mild kick. I dug it a lot.

"Dynamite:"

Menu description:
"crabmeat, masago, with spicy mayo on fire."
My description:
"Generous scoop of shredded surimi mixed with mayo, sesame oil, a decent hit of chile, and then warmed up."
I took two bites. The first bite was to try it, the second bite was to confirm that surimi flavor, and to at least enjoy the nice hit of chile before tapping out. D/c had three bites before calling it quits. If you dig surimi, you might really like this.
I can't do surimi. Just can't. It just doesn't taste right to me.

Our pretty sushi platter:


Winner was the salmon.


Second place went to the tuna:


Spicy Tuna was overtaken by the Kewpie. The Mrs. told me she was wondering when I was gonna comment on the mayo "situation." I kinda kept it to myself.


We also had a round of wasabi tobiko which was essentially the opposite of what I hope for when I order these:

I was hoping for that "slap the table wasabi kick in the pants via nasal passage" but alas, it just didn't happen. It was just tobiko with a faint wasabi flavor.


Taking the decent prices into consideration, this could be an ok neighborhood spot. Figure out what's good that day, and roll with it. Nice place, airy, concrete floors, tall chairs, very friendly staff. Hopefully you'll enjoy it if you go.

Sushi Pink Site
909 W. Washington
Chicago

It's right around the corner from the school where I work, I've hit it a few times for lunch but mostly for noodle lunch specials. Nice space, friendly staff, decent food. Not a destination I agree, but not a bad place if you're in the neighborhood.

Thanks for taking one for the team! This place is around the corner from my new office, and I've stared at it suspiciously/curiously from the Dunkin Donuts next door. It sounds like it would at least be a step up from disappointing grocery store sushi from Dominick's

A curious tidbit: Sushi Pink cannot serve coffee because of the Dunkin' Donuts next door, there's a provision in their lease that no other commercial enterprise in the building may serve coffee. But their tea is good.

Khaopaat wrote:It sounds like it would at least be a step up from disappointing grocery store sushi from Dominick's

I work up in Northbrook, and the Dominick's down the street from my office has decent sushi sometimes, so you'll have to be your own judge here. If I were to return here for lunch, I'd think about taking trpt2345's cue, and getting a noodle special. Maybe fortify that with a few pieces of basic nigiri like namasake, hamachi, and maguro.

Truth be told, we ate a few extra pieces of the sushi off the platter only to not appear wasteful after only eating half of the soup, and less than half of the "dynamite."

I lived in this area for 4 years. Sushi options were pretty limited. This is not that good but it's better than Ichiban (on Taylor) and that other place near Mario's. It's so bad I can't even remember the name.

Then I found Butterfly right before I moved out of there. That place is not bad and it's BYO. They also serve Thai food, which I thought was weird.