Kumiko - side

Beautiful ambience, beautiful decor. Kumiko is not a bar but an experience in itself. The great service starts as soon as you enter and the staff go above and beyond to serve you. Little details like welcome tea at the entrance, pillows at seating benches make Kumiko a warm, memorable experience. The cocktails are the one of the best we have had in Chicago! Would recommend trying their whiskey cocktails and the tisane teas. (Please note the food here is good as well but the main highlight of thi … – show

Hands down the best cocktails I’ve had in Chicago. Julia Momosé is an artist and I highly recommend the “Yaki-Imo Old Fashioned”, which I can only describe as a ‘journey’ given there are so many layers and notes to savor. The “Sea Flower” is subtle but fresh and delightful and goes well with all that great caramelized onion jam in the “Maitakedon”. The service is top notch and starts as soon as you enter through the doors. The host welcomed us with a hot cup of tea, which set the tone for the e … – show

The food here is extremely inauthentic. This place is notoriously hard to get a reservation at, so I was super excited when my husband managed to snag a Saturday night reservation just 2 weeks prior. However we were both utterly disappointed by the food. The drink list was pretty extensive and interesting and contained both alcoholic and non-alcoholic choices. My husband got “New Wave” which smelled funky but tasted decent while I got the “Hibiscus Matcha Latte”. I actually found mine light an … – show

I’d like to preface this by saying i’m not huge on long reviews. neither reading nor writing them. i would also like to say that 5 stars doesn’t do this joint justice we spent about 4 days in chicago just eating and drinking. kumiko was our best dining and cocktail experience, by far. we got in late on friday night and tried to stop in just before close, despite knowing better. the maitre’d, amanda, told us that all the seats were spoken for for the evening, but was very patient and recommend s … – show

Date night here last week with my partner, and we loved nearly everything about the experience. I'll knock the food a tad at 4/5 as some of the dishes had no texture which put me off a bit (though I do need to call out the oysters are great and the potato salad is one of the best things I've ate recently sorry Molly Baz, I still love you), and our neighbors were all about excessive flash photography, but the service and drinks are both incredible. Pricey, yes, but you get what you pay for her … – show