Yoshi’s Cafe - Chicago

My friends and I thoroughly enjoyed every dish and our experience at Yoshis Cafe. I had been longing to visit as it is a unique Japanese-French fusion restaurant that is rare to find in Chicago. My personal favorites were the oyster shooter and the cream of mushroom soup. I am thrilled to bring my family and friends to Yoshi's Cafe in the future!

The food was delicious, but the server seemed a bit stressed because they were understaffed due to COVID. Despite this, we still tipped 20% because we know times are tough for restaurants right now.

Junya was a fantastic server, absolutely hilarious. Made my night, bright me fantastic cocktails (my compliments to the bartender) He was super friendly and absolutely made my night. I'm definitely glad I came here, I don't think I would have had as much fun tonight without his fantastic attitude

I really like the interior design of this place, which, depending on where you sit, is an airy cafe, a bar, or a fairly intimate restaurant. Like most fusion places, they 're not really doing a fusion of cuisines, but just offering more than one, in this case, Japanese and French, with a bit of American thrown in. My favorite dish was the mussels, which were served in a wonderful somewhat spicy broth that made a great soup, too. The tuna tartare was also excellent quality, and the tempura was light and not oily. The wine list emphasizes French wines, with some nice selections, but no bargains. Service was friendly.

First time coming to this place . We picked it because it was part of restaurant week. The brunch menu was a really good deal . I loved the fried chicken , the desserts and the drinks the most . I didn't care about the scrambled eggs with muffin , the Japanese Omu rice was much better , that wine sauce was really tasty . I'm still dreaming about their chocolate lava cake . What I didn't like about this place was the service , we easily had to wait around 20-30 minutes between courses , our waiter forgot to bring a couple extra dishes we order at the beginning (besides the restaurant week menu and it was hard to get his attention . We wanted to order more drinks , try more things but it was just difficult to order .