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30 | June 6, 2019 | The Northbrook tower dining out northbrooktower.com 5B2F Akira Sushi comes ‘home’ to Wilmette Alyssa Groh Contributing Editor After closing 153 Akira Sushi in Wilmette and taking some time off, it brings tears to Kelly Yang’s eyes to have a restaurant in Wilmette again. 5B2F Akira Sushi opened under a new name and new location, but has the same original owner as 153 Akira Sushi. 153 Akira Sushi was owned by Yang, who eventually sold it to a new owner. Shortly after, due to lease negotiations, 153 Akira had to close down. After taking approximately a year and a half off and spending time with her young daughters, Yang found a new location in Wilmette for another restaurant. 5B2F Akira Sushi, 143 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette, officially opened on April 30. Yang said she was waiting to find a location in Wilmette because it is where she calls home. “We really missed Wilmette and we really missed our customers,” said Yang, who is a Wilmette resident. While this restaurant is a bit different than 153 Akira Sushi, it still offers Japanese dishes. Seeing residents return to her restaurant with excitement to learn she was 5B2F Akira Sushi 143 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette (847) 920-5332 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday Closed Sunday back made it all worth it for Yang. “This is a community, it moves my heart to see old customers come back that are happy to see us,” she said. For Yang, her customers are more than customers — they are family and friends. Back at 153 Akira Sushi, Yang said she and her customers would tell each other about their lives and be supportive when times were rough, while also celebrating accomplishments. “Our customer relationships are very important to us,” Yang said. “I want to rebuild the relationship with new and old customers in a different location with a new concept. This location is a restart for us.” One of the biggest changes between the two restaurants, is the new location is much smaller than the old one. 5B2F Akira Sushi has small window and bar seating, and is not a full-service restaurant. And while there are items on the menu at 5B2F Akira Sushi that weren’t The Menage a Trois ($14) has tempura unagi, cucumber, avocado, tuna and sweet tuna topped with salmon and drizzled with sauces. on the menu at 153 Akira Sushi, guests can expect the same type of cuisine and quality. 5B2F Akira Sushi may be in a much smaller location, but its menu is far from small. The menu contains hot and cold appetizers, salads, poke bowls, homemade ramen, 24 specialty rolls, 14 classic rolls, nine vegetable rolls and more. A team of 22nd Century Media editors stopped into 5B2F Akira Sushi to see what all the hype was about. We started with a hot and a cold appetizer. First up was the asparagus beef roll ($9.50), made with sliced beef, which was rolled around asparagus and broiled in a teriyaki sauce. We also tried two items from the cold appetizers, the hamachi ponzu ($12) and tuna tartare ($12). The hamachi ponzue is very thinly sliced yellowtail topped with jalapeno and Akira’s special sauce. One of our favorite items was the tuna tartare, which is also a trademark of 5B2F Akira Sushi. This appetizer consists of towers of tuna accompanied with crispy wontons. Yang mixed it all up for us and placed it on top of the wonton chips, which was similar to chips and dip. Known for its sushi, we couldn’t wait to dive into a specialty roll, the menage a trois ($14). This roll is considered a spicy roll. The menage a trois is made with tempura unagi, cucumber, avocado with tuna and sweet tuna topped with salmon and sauces. The Kelly Poke Bowl ($13) has avocado, cilantro, cucumber, edamame, scallions, onion crunch, tobiko and jalapeño on a bed of rice, topped with spicy mayo and ponzu sauce at 5B2F Akira Sushi in Wilmette. Photos by Anna Schultz/22nd Century Media Spicy tuna seaweed salad ($12) lays on a bed of crisp lettuce topped with spicy tuna and seaweed. We also had the opportunity to try one of the restaurant’s newest items, the Kelly poke bowl ($13), made with a combination of avocado, cilantro, cucumber, edamame, scallions, onion crunch, tobiko, jalapeno, spicy mayo and ponzu sauce. This poke bowl is filled with flavor and large enough to have as an entree. We ended our tasting with a spicy tuna seaweed salad ($12) and the Akira Ramen ($14), made with pork and chicken broth with pork chashu, bamboo, bean sprouts, bok choy, green onion, kama gobo and boiled egg. Stem Cell Recruitment * for Knee Pain, Arthritis &Joint Pain. 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