Tomo Sushi - Highland Park

The former M (and Lincolnshire Gourmet) space at Green Bay and Central in Highland Park has been rented, and we now have another contender in HP. This weekend was their very soft opening, and my son and I stopped in for lunch to check it out. He had his typical miso soup, edamame, and rice, and was quite content. I tried the oyster shooter, though I had ordered an uni shooter, but they didn't yet have uni. The shooter was very nice and balanced - not too spicy nor sour, but did focus the texture on the oyster. I then had the chirashi, which had delicious fish, especially the in-house made shrimp (no soggy over-gingery pre-cooked crap you find elsewhere) and the luscious super white tuna (escolar). My only quibble was the rice was served quite cold instead of the usually somewhat warm I am used to. After a long talk with one of the owners about the area and their plans we was very nice to bring over two pieces of sushi. They were albacore, lightly seared with a bit of ponzu and a small amount of pickled pepper on top and absolutely delicious! After inquiring about omikase for future reference the owner mentioned they will be doing two types - one the normal chef's choice variety, and the other a special occasion give-them-notice type thing where they will source more exotic and desirable ingredients.

I should also mention the menu is quite extensive offering quite a large amount of rolls and appetizers. The sake list looked good, though I didn't recognize most of the offerings.

(I tried to upload a pic of the chirashi several times, but to no avail as the pic is "invalid")

Tomo Sushi
675 Central Ave
Highland Park, IL 60035
(847) 414-0186

Thanks, for the report. I was wondering what was going in there.

mattshafferHP wrote:(I tried to upload a pic of the chirashi several times, but to no avail as the pic is "invalid")

The picture has to be a jpg with a .jpg extension. Was that the case?

=R=

Weird, tried again today. Here it is.

It was our son's birthday last night, and he requested we go back to Tomo. We ordered the sushi boat and a couple of rolls, and it was WAY more food than we could handle. The quality and the value were definitely excellent. We enjoyed everything, including the very reasonable bottle of sake we had. Hopefully, as they move past their soft opening the variety of fish served will expand. Sorry the focus on it isn't great.

Great lunch at Tomo today. I'm surprised no one has posted in here about this restaurant at all. Their ramen is a miso based soup. Noodle were a hair over cooked, but just magnificent depth in the broth. The one piece of pork was really nice, if a bit toothsome. At $7.50 however, an incredible bargain.