I Love Sushi is a Pedway favorite

I Love Sushi, a cafe serving Japanese and Korean cuisine in the Pedway underneath 233 N. Michigan Ave., has been igniting tastebuds for nearly twelve years with its unique brand of Asian-American cuisine.

“I’ve been coming here since I started working upstairs about two years ago,” says an architect in the building. “I’ve tried a bunch of other places, but this place always beats them on taste, flavor and craftsmenship.”

Among the most popular and innovative dishes on the menu is a flame-broiled maki called the “Fire Roll.”

Filled with crab and topped with a crunchy spinach, the entree lives up to its name by including a sub-layer of shrimp that is bruleed with a special blue-flamed torch right before customers’ eyes.

“I bring all my clients here,” says a buyer from Hearst Publishing. “They love it. The Fire Roll’s the best.”

Owner Julie Chung opened I Love Sushi eleven years ago, after immigrating to Chicago from Osaka, Japan, where she spent nearly two years learning the art of sushi from an authentic Japanese chef.

“In Japan, they’re not that much into using sauce,” she says. “In America we use a lot of sauces, but I love it.”

Besides serving customers in the six buldings connected to the Pedway corridor, Chung’s restaurant also caters for business and private events.

Athough she opened a dry cleaning business in the area before founding I Love Sushi, she explains that the restaurant perfectly suits her passion.

“I like eating,” she says.

— Daniel Patton, Staff Writer