Sushi Para II

Worst place I have ever visited! Worst service even by the manager. The service sucks and even though 10 of us went for all you can eat, they didn’t treat us well and charged extra even though we didn’t get what we ordered. The sushi wasn’t that great as well. Don’t ever go there!

Good. Not the best, but not the worst. If you’re doing the all you can eat deal, make sure you do more than 2 rolls to get your money’s worth. Also I went to this restaurant on the coldest day of the year and was seated by the door when there were open tables in the back. Love that it’s BYOB

If you’re looking for some decent sushi, sashimi and appetizers this is the place. BYOB and all you can eat for $ 20 and $ 0.50 for each piece you aren’t able to finish or if you wanted to take some home. It isn’t the best sushi I’ve had in Chicago but a good spot at a reasonable price.

Solid AYCE sushi at a price that’s decent/​normal for Chicago. If you’re used to Chicago sushi, you’ll be pleased with this place. Food is decent and fish is fresh for the most part (but avoid the mackerel). It’s always packed during dinner so don’t come here if you’re claustrophobic or hate loud places. On a Friday/​Saturday night, expect to wait at least 15 minutes even with a reservation.
That being said, if you’re visiting from out of town and you have high expectations for sushi, don’t bother because «good» sushi in the midwest is not what it is on the coasts. (I’m always baffled by people who visit from CA or NY and decide to go for sushi — you know Chicago is landlocked right??)

Crazy tuna ⁸⁄₁₀
Spider ²⁄₁₀
All you can eat so go hungry. Sushi quality is not bad. Place is clean and good service. 20/​person.

Sushi is delicious and served so quickly.
$ 20 AYCE and BYOB. The place is small and gets packed however we have never waited for seating. Atmosphere is chill and parking is easy.

Terrible experience! I’ll never come back again, the front desk is like hell. He treated us so rude and told us that you guys have to wait for at least half an hour while let others in saying that they got reservations. He was so impatient with us! No never back!

I arrived well before my friend, who was stuck in traffic on the bus. They wouldn’t seat me until I found out how long it would be until she got there, and there were open tables. After I told them she was only ten minutes away they gave me a table, but came up and asked me again how much longer a few minutes after I had already been seated.
The sushi was decent, nothing special. We waited a long time for water refills.
Be aware before you go for the $ 19.99 all you can eat that they charge you PER PIECE if you leave anything on the plate. I made the mistake of trying something new and didn’t end up liking it.

Highly recommend this place to anyone who wants good fresh sushi and all you can eat sushi for a good price. Plus its BYOB so you can sit down with a fifth go to town on sushi for two hours.

Excellent all you can eat sushi! The service was also wonderful. Shouldn’t make you pay for uneaten sushi though

This is pretty much exactly what you’d expect from an all-​you-​can-​eat sushi place. For $ 20, you can order anything off the menu, which you would probably spend at least that much at another sushi place for much less food (if you’re craving quantity over quality). If you’re craving a sushi feast, this is definitely the place to go.
Favorites included the godzilla roll, the fried scallops (I LOVED THESE), the american dream roll, and the pop up roll. Service was quick and it was BYOB and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was no corking fee.

Food was good for a sushi buffet.
Other than that, there was this really strong strange smell there.
Would be 3 stars but minus 1 for the smell.

so i am quite the sushi snob. so when my office decided to go out to sushi and chose this place. i knew it was going to be a huge let down.
first off, there is the overwhelming smell when you just walk in. smells like a fish market. FRESH SUSHI DOES NOT SMELL. I’ve never been to a sushi place where i was basically gagging while eating.
the rice tasted just like it was just taken out of the refrigerator, hard and stale. the fish was disgusting, i actually stuffed the remaining rolls in napkins and then threw them out in the bathroom to avoid being charged for not eating it all! you can’t operate an all you can eat restaurant if your food tastes terrible! it doesn’t work!
i would rather eat one of those imitation California rolls you can pick up at Jewel.

This place serves mediocre warm sushi. I ordered yellowtail red snapper sushi and they serve it on hot rice and the fish is warm. When I brought this up to the waitress’s attention she told me that it was my fault because I ordered appetizers and they make the sushi together with the appetizers so that’s why got warm because the rice made it warm. Is it my fault that they make the appetizer and the fish the same time? No that’s their business! Fish should be served cold or cool at least so people don’t get sick. I told the owner that and then he said that that’s how it it. This place serves the worst sushi that you can find it at the supermarket with better quality. I give it two stars because this price was good for the location. Do yourself a favor and skip this place! Rude service and poor quality.

This is my least favorite of any in this sushi chain. The location itself is a bit worn down and the service feels like they are rushing you out.
Sushi is not high quality, but it is only $ 19.99 for all you can eat appetizers and sushi so it is a great place to feast on sushi. It is also BYOB which can be a lot of fun.
Overall, this place is okay if you want to eat a ton of decent sushi for a low cost — but, I’d recommend their Sushi Para D location on diversey.

This place has a great 15.99 all you can eat lunch. Menu for this option is not that extensive but the food quality is great.
Pros — Low price, great food quality
— Good customer service, waiting staff was very dedicated to our table
Cons — Short menu, a bit simplistic
— They forgot to bring one of the orders (although it was a large complicated list)

The food: ⁰⁄₅. I’ve been here a couple of times before and thought it wasn’t terrible. However, this last time we didn’t do BYOB, so I’ve actually had a chance to taste the food and lord was it terrible. I got tuna and salmon sushi and a basic salmon roll. The fish quality is beyond questionable as the tuna I got had a brown hue and didn’t taste like tuna. Salmon wasn’t fresh either, sushi rice wasn’t cooked properly. Very little fish in the rolls. The entire places wasn’t clean and smelled bad, so I wonder about their sanitary norms.
The service: meh… No service besides getting the menu picked up and our bill dropped off.
Overall: ⁰⁄₅. I’m not sure what this place serves, but it’s not sushi. Avoid at all cost.

The wait was long. It was snowing outside and I ended up sitting by the window. At first, I was warm and toasty but after a while a draft set in and I had to layer up again.
The rolls were only ok. I didn’t love the dollops of sriracha they put on top of one of the rolls. I ended up eating 4 rolls, 5 pieces of nigiri, some edamame, and 2 orders of ikayaki by myself. Honestly, the only thing that shined was the ikayaki. I got lucky and the first plate I got had a very high percentage of tentacles.
Let me tell you something about tentacles: the pieces with the suckers are the best part of squid/​octopus. Why? because they have a higher surface area so they soak up flavor better. Also, the tentacles get deliciously crispy. YUM.
I might come back here again. The rest of the food was only OK… maybe I just need to learn how to make ikayaki…

This is my first time venturing here, but I love sushi, so my standards are high and this place met them. All you can eat for $ 20, but watch out, what you don’t finish, you have to pay for! It’s BYOB and BYOW (bring your own wine), great! The sushi is delicious and the all you can eat include house salad, miso soup, edemame, and other appetizers. This place gets full pretty fast, and it’s pretty crowded, so I recommend you make a reservation if you plan to go.

While delicious, the sushi is not fresh and that just can’t be overlooked. This place is great with their BYOB policy and all you can eat sushi ($ 20 per person I think). However, when our sushi arrived it looked nice, but was warm. I ate about half my platter before realizing there was a giant dead fly lodged in the wasabi. We let the server (actually possibly the manager/​owner) know, and immediately my platter was taken away and brought to the kitchen without a word.
So 10 or 15 minutes went by that my date and I patiently waited for a new platter of food to arrive. Nothing. Finally our server came by and his exact words were, «So uhh. did you want to order something else?» What the heck was I waiting for? So I ordered fried gyoza and called it a night.
Overall the atmosphere and concept are nice, but the highlight of the night was the company of my date.

The smell upon entering is a strong fishy smell, not pleasant. It was pretty empty Friday at 6pm. We were seated right away and the service was attentive and fast. We got the AYCE sushi starting with 4. I dont remember which ones specifically, but all I remember is that they all tasted exactly the same.
Sushi wasn’t great, nor was it absolutely horrible. But I definitely would not come back. Not even for cheap AYCE. The dinner price was $ 20.

I had been to the original location years ago and other then being turned off by the two floors, it was ok. This new location is nicer but the service is awful. We came on a Monday night and asked to be seated in the back, but was told that was reserved for a large party at 9pm… they close at 10. Then we waited awhile to order our food and had to flag down the waitress to put in our order. The food was good which is why I gave them 2 stars instead of 1 star. They also charged me $ 19.99 for the all-​you-​can-​eat even though the website says $ 18.99 and so does their menu (see picture). There are other locations nearby that are better for all-​you-​can-​eat sushi.

I’m always a little skeptical when I hear about AYCE sushi places, since it usually means I will be eating a lot of rice. However, that wasn’t the case when I went to Sushi Para II.
Rolls are small, but the size makes it easy to order multiple rolls and to sample around. There’s a decent amount of fish, but best of all, small amounts of rice! I’m not a fish sommelier, but I thought it was pretty good.
The menu offers a good selection of sushi and non sushi items, for the very decent price of $ 18. The only thing I wouldn’t get again is the chicken skewer, which I found too dry and salty.
If I lived in Chicago, I’d definitely come again to fix my sushi craving. Insert dad joke: I wonder how Sushi Para I is?

Even though the price ($ 15.99 Lunch special) may be reasonable, I have been to other ACYE sushi places that taste a lot better than this one. The sush just doesn’t taste right. It’s bland and unpleasing to the palate. There is no sauce added to the rolls, just simply rice and fish with a lot of vegetables. I felt like I was on a diet by eating the what seemed like veggie rolls. I immediately lost my appetite after my first bite in. Let’s just say this was my first time and last time going to Sushi Para II.
I was very displeased with one of the waitress because when I found an unclean dish with chunks from the customer before and asked her for a new one, the waitress rolled her eyes.

If I could give 0, I would give it! So, we arrived around 9.30 (the restaurant closes at 10). In general, in this place, people place several order to understand when they are full and to not have to pay the leftovers… We placed the first order, aware of the rule, but nobody told us that the kitchen closes at 9.45 not at 10. At 9.40, right after the first order arrived, the waitress came and said that the kitchen closes at 9.45, so if we wanted to place another order, we had to do it right away… So, we just did it. She came back 2 minutes later saying that it was too late and the kitchen was closed! So, basically we had to pay the full price for a non-​delivered service…
We got really mad and asked to talk to a manager, the manager said that she is not the manager and she doesn’t know how to contact the managers… that she doesn’t have their phone numbers… I thought it was all a joke. The funny thing is that she said that the only thing she could do for us is to take 10% off our bill… Seriously?
It was one of the worst experiences in my life both for the service and for how the managers treated us, as if we were stupid to not understand.
Food there is ok! It is not bad but not great. We went there twice because it is cheap… but honestly, I would advice you to not go there and pick more serious all-​you-​can-​eat restaurants.