Enso Sushi Bar is a fancy restaurant located in Wicker Park on Damen and North ave. The atmosphere is dark and warm with a few TVs and a projector screen. There’s a full liquor bar right at the front when you walk in as well as a sushi bar in the back looking right into the kitchen. There are plenty of tables and booths all laid out with chopsticks on the table to eat with. The unique arched ceiling makes it seem like you are dining in a tunnel, combine that with the loud poppy electro music and you have a pretty unique dining experience to look forward to.

     The Service itself was wonderful, prompt and friendly. The waiter presented the beer and food very well and with a friendly demeanor.

     The alcohol selection was very admirable with plenty of sake, liquor, wine, and beer, I ordered an import beer, Kirin Ichiban an American pale lager from Japan. It came served with a small jar on the side that it was poured into for me, the jar held about half the bottle only.

     The menu consists of a large selection of entrees including, most importantly, the Edamame. Enso also serves a lot of different types of Ramen and some pad thai. But, of course, the largest focus of this restaurant is on the sushi, of which they have plenty.

     Now onto the most important part of the restaraunt: The Edamame!

    The edamame came served in a tilted metal container with a porcelain dish to discard the shells on the side. Served steaming hot and lightly salted. Great serving size, that tilted metal bowl never seemed to end! The salt was distributed evenly throughout the dish, not just on top. Edamame is tender but firm to the bite. The unique serving bowl kept the edamame warm long after it was served. Halfway through my edamame the waiter grabbed my tray of discarded shells and took it away. The horror this made me feel was overwhelming, what was I to do? Start throwing the empty shells straight onto the table, or into my napkin like some sort of edamame savage? But then, to my relief, not a moment later my waiter came back with a new empty tray for me to continue disposing the shells onto. Such spectacular service was very impressive to me.

For an entree I ordered the tofu pad Thai ramen. It came with a side of spicy miso soup. Which was in fact, very spicy, and very delicious.

The Tofu pad Thai ramen. was good. It came served only with chopsticks and no fork so if your chopstick game is weak you had better practice before going in so you don’t look like a noob.The Enso Sushi Bar was quite an enjoyable experience overall for me from the great atmosphere to the excellent service and presentation. I will definitely be going back to this restaurant for edamame round 2.
I’m leaving Enso with an Edamamaster Triple Pod rating!