This sultry ‘fall’ weather means one thing and one thing only: you’re clinically proven to be better looking after a meal at Katana.”
From a design standpoint the place is interesting. Within its 13,000 square feet squats a massive square bar and lounge where you can make eyes at everyone in the dining room, which sits beneath a huge atrium of blond wooden beams that gives you the sense that you’re a dumpling sweating in a giant bamboo steamer.
When I visit a restaurant I make it a point to order the most ridiculous-sounding thing on the menu, and dessert at Katana doesn’t disappoint. The Carnival is a chocolate brownie topped by peanut butter semifreddo adorned with meringue and candied pretzel—all served in a cotton candy balloon that’s doused with vodka and set alight at the table like the circus disaster of your nightmares. The Volcano, a chocolate lava cake called up from 1987, is served with miso-caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream.
339 N. Dearborn 312-650-8585innovativedining.com/restaurants/katana
