Kaze Sushi: Unbelievable $45 Tasting Course on Tuesday's

My neighborhood, Roscoe Village, never ceases to amaze me.  Not only do we have the most amazing variety of international food lining one tiny strip, we have my favorite sushi restaurant, Kaze Sushi.  I went in the other night to sample their fall tasting menu (the menu changes with each season) and was totally blown away.  Chef Macku and his family team have come up with one of the most delicious menus I've tasted in sometime (I know I say that a lot, but this is for real).  The deal is, for $45 on Tuesday nights, you can get a four course tasting menu with wine samplings.  All of the ingredients are seasonal (including the fish, where seasonal means before the fish has become pregnant) and every course was a tiny explosion of flavor in my mouth.  I'm not a huge raw fish fan, but their sushi sampler (above) had the cleanest, lightest fish my mouth had ever tasted.  Probably due to the fact that Macku gets his fish flown in from small-scale fisherman around the world...he's developed relationships with many of them and they fish specifically for him.  He and his team also shut down every January and head to Japan where they "explore with their master." That sounds like something I would do.  Explore, easy.  Find a master...hmmmmm.....