UPTOWN — The soft opening is over for Uptown's new rotary sushi spot.
Wabi Sabi, 4521 N. Sheridan Road, quietly opened Nov. 3, but will be taking the training wheels off Friday, according to Chan Ruan, an employee at the restaurant.
The restaurant — which might be Chicago's first rotary sushi bar, according to Eater — is in the Windsor Center strip mall, also the home of La Ciudad Mexican Cafe and Grill.
The rotary restaurant features a conveyer-belt-like spinner that carries color-coded plates holding sushi from the kitchen and past tables, Ruan said.
The sushi that rotates will be different "classics" from the menu and range in price fom $2.50 to $6.50 per plate, he said.
Classic rolls include salmon, tuna, tamago, spicy crab meat, spicy shrimp, salmon avocado, tuna avocado, spicy tuna, spicy salmon, shrimp tempura, California, Philadelphia, negi Himachi, salmon skin, unagi cucumber, spider and negi saba.
Customers also can order from the menu, which includes signature maki, classic rolls and kitchen offerings made with rice and ramen.
The restaurant has several ramen offerings: bold, curry, black garlic, tonkotsu, spicy tonkotsu, seafood and cold (no broth), according to the menu.
Kitchen offerings, which come with rice, include hamachi collar, teriyaki salmon, teriyaki chicken, teriyaki rib-eye steak, dynamite scallop and katsu pork, according to the menu.
The restaurant has seven booths and six seats at the bar. It hopes to add alcohol sales, but is currently BYOB, Ruan said.
While it hasn't officially set its hours, for now it plans to be open from 4-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
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