Sushi Sai

Beef teriyaki cost almost $ 18.00. It was terrible. I could barely eat the fatty meat. It tasted old. Yuck. avoid this place.

The worst sushi I have had in my entire life! The service was terrible the owner gave us attitude when we asked to move tables because it was cold next to the entrance. An expired sushi tray at jewel would taste better than this sushi! And to top off the tasteless and nasty sushi the spicy tuna roll is made from CANNED TUNA! NEVER COME HERE!!!

All three rolls I got here were average. The service was bad. It’s another one of those places where they don’t care because they get 18% tip either way. Not a place I would go back to.

All the sushi is served at room temperature. I like my sushi that is supposed to be cold cold and the warm warm. I will not be going back.

The sign on the door says this place opens at 10 a.m. The Unilocal website says that this place opens at 10 a.m. It is now 10:15 a.m. I went into the restaurant, sat down, and someone approached me and told me to leave because they’re not open yet. I told them that the sign says that they open at 10 a.m. She tells me that they’re not ready and to come back later! Horrible customer service.
If I was told they were running behind and to give them a few minutes I would have been fine with that. But to kick me out of the restaurant? Inappropriate, unprofessional, and a waste of the parking I just paid in order to come there. Bad business.

This place is quick and inexpensive. I get lunch takeout every so often.
They have vegan sushi, you just have to combine makis (I get a cucumber avocado). I’m bummed because they used to let me add Seaweed, but I guess they stopped that practice (weird, I was willing to pay for the extra item).
Another downside I found the last time I got takeout is that they don’t provide a dish for the soy sauce. So you either have to squirt it all over the rolls (gross) or find your own dish.

We have been here several times and brought our own beer without any problems. Today when we brought our own alcohol, we noticed an exorbitant fee added to our bill. They had charged us for the price of the alcohol as if it was from their own stock even though they did not even open it for us, nor did they serve it to us, nor did they give us any glasses. We were not told that there would be any added fees. We thought this was a mistake so the server had the manager come out and talk to us and she was incredibly rude. You did not lose any money here! There is no reason why you should have to charge us for our own alcohol!
Additionally, they got our sushi order wrong and the yellowtail was such poor quality that I thought it was our red snapper (which is a tougher fish). The sushi is never very fresh here but we went there for the AYCE sushi and BYOB. For a fresher, better AYCE sushi and BYOB option, go to SUSHI PARA!

You know, usually places get less good over time, it seems, but I think that Sushi Sai has gotten better. The fish is super fresh, the special rolls aren’t all rice but really lots of fish, avocado, and other yummy stuff, the service has gotten better even during AYCE nights, and the $ 19.99 deal is spectacular. I’ve introduced all my friends and everyone is HOOKED! Enjoy.

This place is cheap and close to my office. That’s about all.
*Rice was hard and way too much rice compared to fish on the nigiri.
*Don’t get the tobiko. Didn’t know that it’s the dyed red kind.
Don’t get:
*sweet shrimp, don’t think it’s botanebi, another smaller kind. Don’t like how they fried the head.
*scallop was thin and small.
Order again:
*Agedashi tofu was pretty good and only $ 4.50.
*Vegetable salad had iceberg lettuce, cucumbers, broccoli, avocado, and asparagus with a soy sauce vinegar type dressing. It was large for the price.
*Uni was good for the price, but huge chunks of hard rice made it unpleasant.
*Hirame was good, except for the rice.

«All you can eat» is not what we expected and as we experienced before in other restaurants. Menu is fussy to understand. Waiting for food is so long that I can’t even remember how long we waited. While, service is just below general level.
While since the quality of food is okay, I gave one star for this purpose.

Lost respect for this place after forgetting to bring one dinner to my party of three, then unsatisfactorily unresolved by snippy ill tempered cashier. Granted, they got busy (I was one of a few customers when I arrived), and waitress had limited Engrish. Food is meh. This place might be okay when not busy. I was told place kinda changed with recent management change. Boo.

Sure it’s a rule that you have to finish the extra sushi left over if you don’t eat it but I’d rather pay the .50 cents a piece than have to stomach another dry, old piece of sushi. I had high hopes finding an all you can eat sushi place in Chicago but I was extremely let down. The food wasn’t good and it was pretty pricey.
Hate to say it but I wasn’t impressed. 2 stars is nice.

It’s BYOB small cozy restaurant… clean restrooms, clean dining room area, parking in the street meters, replacing soothing environment! Affordable all you can eat and food made fresh. I just love this place

I like this place for lunch. Went with a friend and ordered the sushi deluxe (see my photos). Service was good. My friend ordered some sashimi thing that looked good. The miso soup was bland.
The restaurant doesn’t have the best ambience. Otherwise, it would be a 4. Tables are sticky, it’s noisy and small. That’s fine for lunch, but not sure that I would want to eat a leisurely dinner here. Will be back for the sushi.

Pretty decent AYCE, and a good price for the area. It won’t be the best sushi you’ve, ever had, but it will definitely get you by. $ 20/​person for. Food has always been delivered fast and the fish itself is decent. Also a decent list of sides such as yakitori, miso soup, and seaweed salad. One complaint is that temperature for sushi is not optimal, and the rice is a little less vinegar-​y than I would prefer. If you’re hungry and craving sushi, and not particularly picky, this place has got you covered.

I was excited to get to have some AYCE sushi during my stay in Chicago but was severely disappointed. The service was fine, a bit slow for such a small place and not even full on a weeknight but can’t complain. The quality of the food was what bothered me the most.
They had two sushi chefs, three at most. The sushi was very disproportional, I have never had so much rice paired with such a thin slice of fish that I needed to eat in two bites. Sadly it wasn’t only the nigiri that got extra rice on it but even the rolls, every single roll we ordered was stuffed with rice. I understand rice is a part of sushi but there is a fine line between what is considered nigiri to when it’s just onigiri– a rice ball.
The wait before our next order of sushi was also ridiculously long, we had to stay for 3 hours to get all of our food.
It really just felt like they were using every possible tactic to get you to be full so you can’t get your money’s worth of sushi. I might as well have just paid for two rolls somewhere else for the AYCE price here, at least the quality would be more than just a taste of rice.

We opt the AUCE, the first round was normal, we only ordered a few to test the water. Normal means everything is OK, standard size of fish and rice. So we ordered the second round, same things as first round but this time, the rice is double the size and the fish is one size thinner. So… does that mean you are going to fill us up with rice so that we can not order anymore?

Visiting from out of town and decided to try a sushi place in Chicago. I was a little skeptical about how fresh the fish can get here, and I was proved right. First the dipping dish for soy sauce was a little dirty like there was old ginger stuck on the side. I asked for a new one and the waitress quickly took it back and gave me a new one. The tuna had a fishy taste and didn’t taste fresh at all. The rice to fish ratio was crazy… wayyyy too much rice! And to make things worse, I found two strands of hair in my Sapporo Roll UGH.
+1 star for giving us a 10% discount for the hair but I’m still grossed out.

First time visitor and not much of a sushi connoisseur. Stopped in after work on Friday night and the place was empty — less than an hour later, filled up completely.
FOOD: Great value and variety for the price — $ 20. Had the miso soup, dumplings and duck stir fry as appetizers and California, crab and shrimp tempura rolls. All good. As a novice sushi eater, I would have liked pictures on the menu.
SERVICE: Prompt and courteous. Appetizers came out before the sushi. I tried being careful about over ordering as they will make you pay for what you don’t eat. Server advised I could order more if I wanted to — which I thought was a nice offer to make the most of the deal.
ENVIRONMENT: Long rectangular space, well lit but a bit crampted. Cold — kept my coat on. Although a little cramped, spaced out enough so you’re not in everyone’s conversation and can see what everyone else ordered.

We came for the AYCE sushi. I’m usually not a big fan of AYCE since I don’t get my monies worth, but $ 19.99 wasn’t too bad.
My friends and I ordered a variety of stuff. Everything was fresh and good. Not the best, but good.
Would consider this place for AYCE in the future.
Service was pretty good too!