Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge

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624 Davis St
Evanston, IL 60201

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(847) 866-6969
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Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge - Evanston, IL
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Koi

Koi has a great atmosphere and really good service. The food's pretty yum too! I really like the shrimp fried rice.

Worst

I LOVE sushi. As such, I had high hopes for Koi. Silly me. While the ambiance and location are great, (walking distance to El and Metra), the food is only mediacore and the ser...

Great Sushi in Evanston 3/28/2011

I went here for the first time this week and will definitely be coming back. Fresh, quality sushi and they had an extensive martini menu with specials. For a weekend, there wasn't too much of a wait and the staff were really friendly. Solid pick. more

Food is good, 3/1/2011

and portion is good but the service is not always more

Asian Fusion Failure 6/3/2010

I was here for lunch on Memorial Day and it was very empty. I had the Shrimp Soong and my friend had the Crispy Chinese Duck, which was anything but crispy. He was pretty disappointed in how fatty the meat was and how soggy/greasy the skin was. Pros: Large, extensive menu with Thai, Chinese and Sushi options Cons: Soggy crispy duck, Hidden surcharge for brown rice more

Koi 1/29/2010

Koi has a great atmosphere and really good service. The food's pretty yum too! I really like the shrimp fried rice. more

Koi Chinese & Sushi is highly recommended! 8/10/2009

Koi has a great atmosphere. We enjoyed dinner in & take out from Koi. The general gao's low fat chicken is really tasty. The sushi is great and one of the best in Evanston. more

Awful service! 2/15/2008

The sushi was okay, but not so good. The service was awful. It seems to me that the staff were not well-trained. Most of them did not have service-minded. Well, I would say they were not so friendly as I expected to see in a "Japanese restaurant." Will not go again. Pros: nice atmosphere Cons: bad service and awful staff more

Koi is a sure success 2/6/2008

Koi is the most reliable restaurant in Evanston, IL. From Northwestern University students to Evanston families of all ages it is one establishment that is sure to impress in both ambience and food. \r The sushi is fantastic and cheap for the excellent quality. The chicken dishes are also fabulous and favorites among my friends. The sweet & sour chicken is always a hit. \r The service is always friendly and professional, yet not too overwhelming and annoying like at some restaurants. \r GREAT value for the quality! As mentioned it is a favorite among college kids! more

Disappointing 11/12/2007

I LOVE sushi. As such, I had high hopes for Koi. Silly me. While the ambiance and location are great, (walking distance to El and Metra), the food is only mediacore and the service is a joke. Twice in the past we have attempted delivery and then carry-out. Both times the soups and sauces were spilled in the bag. While we were compensated with gift certificates ($25 the first time and $50 the next), I should have known that this was a great fore-shadowing of what would happen if I decided to have my birthday dinner there. I called Wednesday to reserve an 8:00 table for 11 people on Saturday night. Saturday morning Koi called to confirm. We arrived at 7:55 and waited AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN mintues for a table. Thats right. 95 grueling minutes for a reservation that was made 4 days in advance. So we sat at the bar, where NONE of our drinks were compted. Yes, the manager gave us 2 bottles of their second-to-cheapest wine, but that was it. We got a slew of excuses until they finally decided to squeeze some tables in for us. And I really mean squeeze. It was VERY tight. Once we were seated, the service did not get much better. The waitress failed to ask if anyone wanted a drink other than the cheap red wine. Which, many of us did. A few of us had to ask repeatedly for water. Some people ordered appetizers as a main dish, and they were brought out long before the rest of us recieved our meals. They were also out of my favorite sushi. :-( There are a few other great suchi spots in Evanston. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to them instead! Koi is WAAAY too expensive for the quality of both food and service that they have to offer. We should have just walked over to Potbellys . . . more

trendy and tasty 11/10/2007

Koi is a nice restaurant with good service. I like that you can go on a date and they have both sushi and chinese dinner options. Their orange chicken is awesome. more

Nice atmosphere, but problems with product and staff 8/25/2007

Sushi is popular with my immediate family, and we made a second visit to this restaurant, which serves Chinese cuisine and sushi. We ordered fun noodles (stir fried wide rice noodles), maki, and a sushi plate. The food was prepared very artfully and was pleasing to look at. The seafood on the sushi plate were very thin, greatly outsized by the rice it was served on; we ended up chopping the rice pieces in half and leaving rice behind to balance the flavors of rice and seafood. The seafood content of the maki rolls were substantially less than what we were accustomed to from many other sushi restaurants. Perhaps this is traditional in Asian cultures. The service staff made strange motions when delivering the food, such as pumping the plate of noodles up and down in front of us before placing on the table. More galling was when we ordered the sushi plate; the menu does not describe what kinds of fish are included. We asked what the sushi plate included, and the waitress said "raw fish". Well, duh! When pressed for what kinds of fish, the waitress said "tuna and stuff". (We later debated lodging a fake complaint that the fish was undercooked just to see their reaction, for laughs! But we didn't.) When asked how many pieces each maki roll supplies, she was unable to tell us, saying "probably 4 to 8 pieces" depending on the roll. Pros: Nice atmosphere, trendy, beautifully prepared food Cons: Tough parking, poorly trained staff, skimpy on fish content more

Simple sushi trying to be upscale 7/16/2007

i remember coming here before going to the nearby theater for a show. I didn't know it then, but this place was actually 2 places in one (Koi, the Japanese sushi place, and Chen's Chinese). Although the place had good food and the ambiance was great, it was almost as if something was "fake" about it. Maybe it was the very easy going athmosphere that surrounded the place. They had a VIP lounge area with a fireplace and and leather sofa and the inside was dark with a warm yellow color all around. This is compared to those traditional looking places with bamboo all over and silk screens. The food was good, but nothing to jump up and say it was a winner to. I did, however, like their innovative drink selections, including martinis and hard to find sake. But other than that, I really did not see anything special enough that can justify this place having 2 $$? Come for a date, but not for those everyday sushi cravings. Pros: martini and sake lineup Cons: parking, nothing special about the foodthat makes it $$ more

Decent, but not exceptional 2/23/2007

I went to Koi with a group of about eight. We weren't seated very promptly and the service wasn't great, our server was not very friendly or helpful. The food was pretty good but a little overpriced. I haven't had the sushi but I was told it's pretty good. The atmosphere is very chic but the service did not live up to the look, nor did the food. It wasn't a terrible experience, but definitely not impressive enough for me to want to go back. more

Nothing Special 6/7/2006

I am not big on Japanese/Chinese restaurants as seem to be very average serving both. The sushi here is OK but not the freshest fish. It is probably fine if you like the complicated oversized maki, but if you are looking for just good fish these combination restaurants are not the best choice. Pros: Distance to Northwestern Cons: Chinese and Sushi are both average more

Low quality food. 5/19/2006

I do not think they know what quality food means at this place. Decor is great and restaurant is great looking. But that is about it. Good place to hang out but not to eat. Pros: ambience, location Cons: food , clueless more

not worth it!!!! 12/16/2005

I walked in to find a great looking restaurant with nice worker but oh was I wrong I sat at the sushi bar I waited 30 minutes for someone to serve me.next i got my sushi it was hard not fresh and cut wrong. While i told the wator about the experience she very rudely commented "Like it matters" LIKE IT MATTERS!!!!!! are you kidding me?!?!?! take your money elswere this is not woth it!!! Pros: ??? Cons: KOI !!!!! more

Bland 12/14/2005

I had what was listed as the chef's "specialties". the menu described it as lightly seasoned but it was bland and more effort was put into the presentation rather than the quality of the food though the shrimp in the meal was good. If you like the more authentic style of Chinese food unfortunately this is not the place, but the decor is very nice and the service was friendly. more
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Owner Message
  • Koi is located in the right in the heart of charming Evanston?s restaurant row. Koi brings the bold flavors of the eight different regions of authentic Chinese Cuisine and fresh sushi to every dining experience. The new menu brings owner Sandy Chens? love for traditional Chinese cooking to the forefront, while still offering the menu favorites that our regular customers have come to love.

    Recently redesigned, Koi offers a modern, relaxing atmosphere perfect for a night out with friends, dinner for two or private parties. Koi?s express kitchen caters carryout and delivery to a wide range of North Shore residences.

    With an incredible menu and exciting drinks, the warm and welcoming atmosphere, complimented by the knowledgeable staff, Koi is one of Evanston's premier dining destinations. Come and see us to enjoy the weekly specials at bar after work. Be creative, live long, be happy and follow your own path. Let the party begin.

    Most of our menu items can be made wheat free, sodium free, and low fat options. We use no MSG!

    Call for delivery or visit our website to make a reservation today!

Editorial
  • The Scene
    Set among the casual cafes along Davis Street, Koi is a refreshingly sophisticated alternative. A small, sleek lounge with a wood-burning fireplace welcomes customers into the...

  • 9/14/2004 Provided by Citysearch
Additional information
  • Hours: Mon-Thurs 11:30am - 3pm, 4:30 - 10pm Friday 11:30 am - 3pm, 4:30 - 11pm Saturday 11:30am - 11pm Sunday 11:30am - 10 pm /// Delivery: Monday-Thurs 11:30am - 3pm, 4:30 - 10pm Friday 11:30am - 3pm, 4:30 - 11pm Saturday 4:30 - 11pm Sunday 4:30 - 10pm
  • Payments: American Express, Visa, Diner's Club, Discover, Master Card
  • Neighborhoods: Evanston
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