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Akai Hana

3.3 (270 reviews)
Closed 11:30 am - 2:30 pm, 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Moderate noise
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Dogs allowed
Good for kids

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Cucumber imitation crab salad
Hilary P.

Akai Hana is one of my favorite hometown restaurants. The chicken teriyaki bento box is delicious and a great deal. I love the atmosphere and the service is great. It's a staple in the area and one of my favorite places to dine or carry out.

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Richard Y.

As good as ever! Saturday night dinner and we enjoyed every bite of our salmon tempura bento box and ala carte rolls. Every course is fresh and tasty. The service is consistently friendly and quick with fast water and tea refills.

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Traveling a lot in the past couple of years to the Northeast suburbs, of Chicago, we happened to come across AKI HANA. Bit of a difficult time to get parking by the restaurant at peak dining time. The place is always very crowded. The wait staff is small but manages to accomplish their waitstaff duties with reasonable efficiency. Very large, complex menu, condensed somewhat for the lunch crowd. The wife and I have tried several of their offerings that we are used to ordering elsewhere. Quality, taste and freshness compares with the best! Their luncheon Bento Box offerings are especially wonderful. TEMPURA can be included in a variety of offerings. Let me say this; - - - - - I have had Tempura all over the country and especially the Chicago area. I have to rank theirs ***** the best I have had anywhere. Flavor, texture and non-greasy, are their special merits. They usually give you enough TEMPURA included with a Bento Box, that equals what others serve as an entree. I could go on and on. If you dine at lunch you may want to ask for their MAIN MENU, along with the Lunch Menu. Very hard to imagine why anyone would down-rate this restaurant. Of course, no one is perfect 365 days of the year.

Udon and tempura
Boyle W.

I get lunch here several times a year... so not exactly a regular, but I've been around enough to see the menu evolve and stay the same. It's a nice plaza-style restaurant. Yes, as others have pointed out, parking can be a little tight (it was worse pre-pandemic when the lot seemed to be under repair all the time). I am not a good judge of "authentic" or not... but it is certainly a little more classical in its approach. Yes, there are some non-standard dishes and rolls, but they aren't as crazy as new age stuff out there. We often get the bento box lunches, which is a fair amount of food... a soup, crab salad, entree, and a cali roll. I'm also a fan of the udon, which seems a little more no-frills. I can see service being a little inconsistent, but I've always been a little sympathetic since it's been very hard to fully staff up.

Patti L.

Haven't been here in a long time. This place is still good. The servers and the host are very attentive. There's lotz to choose from on the menu. We went during the week and it wasn't extremely busy. I wanted the sea bass teriyaki but they didn't have any. So I ordered the orange roughy teriyaki combo. It was delicious. Then my b4 ordered the sashimi dinner. We ordered extra pieces of salmon, tuna and uni sushi. They also had toro sushi which is fatty tuna. It was delicious. I'll ordered more of that. I never had uni before so I tried it. It wasn't for me. He loved it so he could eat mine anytime. It's far for us but we will come back when in the area.

greedy shrimp
Nazia C.

We arrived around 7:45 for dinner because we didn't know they closed at 8 pm on a Friday. Still, they were kind to seat us and had our order out pretty quickly. They brought us complimentary bowls of miso soup. We tried the pork gyoza, which was prepared perfectly with the right amount of crunch and chewy texture. I will say, I generally do not like to eat sushi, but the food was decent. I enjoyed the Louisiana roll and the greedy shrimp roll.

Agedashi-Dofu
Rebecca A.

Good lunch spot. My hubby and I were very pleased with the portions for the price and you get to try a lot of variety. The interior is a little dated. They have the sushi bar area blocked off for employees only.

Hannah H.

I grew up on Akai Hana, and when I come home to visit, I usually make it a point to stop by for their bento boxes. It gets tricky, as the hubs is not a fan of this place! I think you just need to know what to order - I used to stick with their chicken teriyaki bento box, but I've switched over to the salmon teriyaki - I request this to be well done, and, if I feel a bit more saucy, I do ask for extra teriyaki sauce to come with. The set comes with pickled ginger, a mound of wasabi, your choice of protein on top of a pile of shredded cabbage, 6 California rolls (which I find tasty!), and a cucumber/imitation crab salad. Coming here during lunch is so much better, as the bento boxes do not come with the nigiri (which I find their fish/sushi not so fresh), rice, or a scoop of ice cream. Hot green tea is not complimentary anymore! Service can be a hit-or-miss, as it can be a bit difficult to get your server to bring refills or the check. Plenty of (tight) parking in the plaza lot. +salmon teriyaki bento box +good California rolls +avoid the sushi/nigiri/sashimi +go for lunch! +parking in shared plaza lot

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Excellent food and good service and good food and great people in general I am very impressed by the quality of the restaurant

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Akai Hana/Wilmette - New menu - much higher prices and less variety. Three rolls at lunch were $17.00. Now they are $30.00.

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5 months ago

Below average quality food and poor service, not recommended. When we gave them feedback, the staff and manager are very rude.

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6 months ago

Love the freshness of Akai Hana. Consistently great food! Have been coming here for almost 30 years. Would highly recommend.

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i got food poisoning. service ok but took forever. we got seated fast but didnt get drinks until food came.

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Randomly stopped by here on a weekday early evening, late lunchtime frame. It is in a strip mall…read morearea with other stores and has lots of shared parking. Disclaimer I forgot to take a picture of what I ordered, which was the chicken teriyaki bento box I forgot because I was so hungry and everything was so freshly cooked and hot that I just dived right in. That bento box had edamame a spring roll gyoza and the rice covered in furikake plus the chicken teriyaki and seaweed salad and more. I also ordered the lychee jasmine tea, which was cold and absolutely delicious and it was not a cup of diabetes, thank goodness We also ordered a Tonkatsu bowl, which was very generous, freshly cooked and super tasty. Both orders came with a miso soup, which was also piping hot and tasty. The set up is definitely a little bit more fast food because you can order to counter and then get your food on a tray and sit down or you can order it from a kiosk as well. They also do takeout orders. The best part about this place besides the food and the ambience are just so cute and modern and clean is the staff and the manager. People really do make the difference and people really do enhance an experience and an overall lasting and first impression. I would absolutely come back here. It is super conveniently located. Great pricing with very generous portions. The owners are Japanese and everything here is super authentic.

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Akai Hana - sushi - Updated May 2026

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