Ramen Takeya - Chicago

I came here a year ago for my two year anniversary with my bf and I AM SO SAD TO SEE THIS IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED!!! This omakase experience was so memorable- the chef was the cutest elderly man and each piece of fish was so tasty. I’ve been a few omakase places in New York and Japan and this one definitely lives up to the standard.Will be coming back when they reopen

I was a little worried after reading some of the reviews but my family and I had a great experience. Omakase translates to dishes selected by the chef, so there are no reasons for people to leave negative reviews about the nigiri selections. Everything tasted very fresh and delicious. The dinner seating lasts for 75 minutes, we got through the 15 courses in about 50 minutes. Afterwards, they allowed extra time for customers to re-order any of the pieces that were served. I did not feel rushed at any moment, in fact, the waiter encouraged us to stay and enjoy until the whole 75 minutes were up. The only complaint I have are the chairs, they are due to get new chairs as the seats were slightly uncomfortable.

The server wasn’t kind even sometimes rude. He explained about each sushi to the other teams but somehow he always forgot to do that to us. The attitude to us was not good from the beginning to the end, for example, he almost threw the receipt to our table while he politely put the receipt to the other table. It was subtle racism for whole 50 min. It wasnt just me to feel it, all of my family felt it. I really liked to visit here two years ago and very very dissapointed this time and never visit anymore. Even the quality of sushi was downgraded compared to two years ago.

Can’t be it’s price point here, definitely worth every dollar to get your fill of variety of fresh fish. Would definitely recommend.

Had a reservation at 6:15pm but messed up the timing. When I realized and called at 6:50pm, was not allowed to come in even though I still had 40 minutes left in my reservation. No rescheduling, no standby waiting, no future credits at all. $200 just disappeared for nothing. Was told this is standard policy it is your fault that you missed it Not saying being late was not my fault. They just enforced their policy and did nothing wrong. It 's just the altitude I got from the phone was so disturbing. So transactional and no empathy at all when I was upset. Can 't believe they offer zero help. All I can say is never miss the grace period if you book here.