Kuni's Japanese Restaurant
Kuni's Japanese Restaurant
Tempura Soba Soup (cold $12)
Mom and dad's salmon bento box.
French Maki, California Maki, Omakase Maki
a plate of sushi
a variety of sushi
a bottle of sappor
Soft Shell Crab Appetizer
Asahi With The Avocado And Veggie Hand Rolls
Nabeyaki Udon
Tempura and chicken teriyaki lunch
Fried oyester, Beef Roll, Katsu Don
Fried Oyster
Bento with chicken teriyaki
Soup and salad with bento
Hot Tempura Soba Soup
California Maki and French Maki
Tonkatsu Appetizer
Combination dinner. Tons of food
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Spicy Lobster Hand Roll and French maki.
Ben's order of a la carte sushi.
Sukiyaki Agedashi tofu Takoyaki Unadon
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Mark M.
May 5, 2024
Something tells me that the road and sidewalk work on Main St isn't good for our shops and restaurants. This occurred to me while I was enjoying Kuni's gorgeous sashimi with all the veggies and seasonings. Since my home is close by I wandered in around 5 to get an order to go.The sashimi D dinner, as I recalled had 8 slices of chef's fish choice, rice bowl, wasabi and ginger. Less than ten minutes later the Chef delivered his choices, the wait staff packed my bag with everything else and I came home.Edamame wrapped up, a bucket of fresh sliced seafood, shredded cabbage, seaweed, and matchstick carrot salad, pile of ginger and a knot of wasabi. I believe my new favorite chef gave me 16 pieces of his choice. The ambience at my place? Meh.But I know a great spot to get beautiful food!
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Steve A.
May 20, 2023
Here is a long time favorite for sushi in Evanston. It's been around here since the 1980s, so that's a long time for a restaurant. Kuni's Bistro looks like it may not have changed that much in that time. Even though it may look outdated, the food is still fresh. This is like getting old school sushi without all the fancy sauces and some other crazy stuff. A pretty good menu and the prices are a throwback as well, pretty cheap. It has a few Asian beers including Asahi, the most popular one in Japan according to the label. The sushi is the main thing though. It's about $5 for hand rolls. These are like typical sushi rolls except these aren't cut and are thicker. Kind of like a long triangle shape. We got the Avocado and the Veggie Hand Rolls, and these were a pretty good value. Liked these. Packed full of rice and vegetables, in a pretty tough seaweed wrap. Good tasting and good looking. There's also the more common types of rolls. Best place for getting classic styles of sushi without being fancy. It's been around a long time and it's easy to taste why, as well as the good prices. There's a pretty good amount of choices for vegans and vegetarians.
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Glenn M.
May 16, 2024
Kuni's is an Evanston treasure for anyone that likes authentic Japanese food. The quality of the fish was fantastic. Service was excellent. There are chicken beef and noodle dishes for those that don't want sushi or sashimi. If you're unfortunate enough to find yourself in Evanston this is your best option for a quality dining experience. It's enough to make you love the city.
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Qinyun C.
Apr 13, 2024
Great food and service. Their sunomono is the best. Fish and veggies are super fresh.
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Yvonne Y.
Oct 1, 2023
What a homey place to have sushi and traditional japanese dishes. It's a cozy setting where I'd be comfortable bringing friends or family to enjoy a delicious meal without a hipster crowd. Sashimi freshness is solid. We tried the sashimi omakase, sashimi combo, all types of hand rolls, maki rolls, deep fried soft shell crab and even beef sukiyaki. Really enjoyed all sushi and sashimi plus the soft shell crab. Can't wait to bring my family here to try and share more rolls. Street parking can be challenging on a saturday night so come early to look for parking.
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Nina H.
Sep 29, 2021
I live in the area and saw positive reviews for Kuni's but I didn't set foot until this month. I love having sushi on occasion. Kuni's menu was appetizing so I bookmarked it for a future visit.My family visited a couple weeks ago and we were able to secure patio seating without a reservation. Although I appreciate that they offer patio seating, the chairs we sat on were stiff and wobbly. My parents shared a salmon bento box and my husband and I ordered sushi and rolls a la carte.We started off with a fried oyster appetizer and it was pretty middle of the road like much of what we ordered. I had a French maki and a spicy lobster handroll. They were edible but both kinda fell flat in flavor. The hand roll was spicy but there wasn't much depth to it and I wasn't wowed by the French maki either.My parents being elderly have small appetites but looking at their bento box, the salmon piece was a tiny portion. I would have expected something slightly bigger especially since the bento box was nearly $25.00. They didn't seem, to raise any issues with their meal and appeared stuffed since they weren't able to finish the other side dishes in the box.My husband said his meal was okay but nothing remarkable stood out.The service was good but if the food quality doesn't match the service, I doubt I'll return.
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Frank T.
Apr 1, 2022
We live nearby so we came for dinner. We were seated right away. Service was really great. We ordered drinks and gyoza. Then we ordered the French maki and I had the. Combination tempura salmon teriyaki and 1/2 California maki. The gyoza was good but the soy sauce was weak. Not salty. Weird taste. My wife loved the French maki and the miso soup. The salad had this weird thick dressing that was not creamy. Just no real taste other then ginger not much sesame taste. We left it. The tempura was fantastic. Crunchy and two small pieces of shrimp and a sweet potato. The sauce was forgettable. Not salty enough. The salmon was dry. The fried gyoza was good. The seaweed was amazing as was the gomae. There was a lot of food.
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Mindy T.
Dec 2, 2022
Kuni's is really charming and has some of the best quality sushi I've eaten in a long time. The soba is also quite delicious. This was my first time trying a cold soba dish and it won't be the last!
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Airi O.
Apr 15, 2022
I went to Japanese restaurant at first time in the US.I'm Japanese so I wanted to try to go.I ordered:-Agedashi Tofu $5.00I love Agedashi Tofu in Japan. I tried the taste almost same and I love it!-Takoyaki $6.00I'm from Osaka, Japan. Takoyaki is famous foods in Osaka. Takoyaki taste is really good! Same taste!-Sukiyaki $18.00It was cold so I wanted to eat warm foods. Taste was fine. Need more soy sauce and sugar. And also in Japan dip in row eggs. I like this way so I was miss Japanese Sukiyaki. -Unadon $22.00Unagi is expensive in Japan. But really good and price is okay too.I did't try to eat Sushi this time. I definitely try to eat Sushi next time.In Japan it is difficult to be Sushi chief because they have a long time training .I saw Japanese Chief made Sushi. So I should try.Of course prices are a quite expensive. But I had a good time at Japanese restaurant.
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Shary E.
Dec 29, 2022
Food here is awesome! Love their gf gyoza and all of the sushi rolls, sashimi and nigiri. Very traditional and I love that! One star off because they don't have any sparking water options so you have to get a soda. They have a great choice in sake as well! Yum!
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