Cheating on the event[1] lunch to grab my own down the road at Osaka, a tiny little pocket of a place on Michigan Avenue (a block South of the Art Institute) that makes magic out of an incongruous juxtaposition: Sushi & Fresh Fruit Smoothies.
Today's lunch: sake sushi with avocado and tamago maki, accompanied by a peach/mango smoothie.
The fish with sushi thing has a strange way of spilling across boundaries at Osaka: they have a crab and mango roll -- which I tried once and was sorry I had -- and they offer avocado in their smoothie assortment, which I've been assured pairs beautifully with mango.
Maybe next time.
The background music is the only juxtaposition that *doesn't* work at Osaka -- today it seems the Beatles have collided with one of those music boxes where the ballerina spins when you lift the lid.
But I'll put up with quite a bit for a lunch like this.
Posting by cameraphone from the Loop.
[1] A Forrester Forum on social networking -- more to come on that one.
