Kaminari Japanese Cuisine lives up to its reputation for having some of the best sushi in the Chicagoland area. Kaminari, located in Cedar Ridge Plaza, presents an unassuming face to the outside world. But inside is a slice of hip heaven, with cool music, a downtown decor and the energy of a restaurant that knows its excellence has been discovered and is being sustained by a loyal clientele. You can sit at the sushi bar, a table or a secluded back booth. The menu is everything you would expect from a high-octane sushi restaurant, with enough surprises to keep you coming back. Your taste buds will be in for a scalding if you order Fire Mountain, made of tuna, salmon and crab, or the Black Widow, which mixes wasabi heat with eel and soft-shell crab. As for the main menu, you can order all manner of combinations of yellowtail, snow crab, tuna or a lobster tail grilled in Bacardi 151. There are so many different iterations of makizushi that you'll be pretty certain that you have to come back to Kaminari Japanese Cuisine again, and soon.