Soak up a night out of people-watching (peppered with minor celebrity spottings) and fun, flavorful food
Timeout Chicago‘s review of Sunda is online.
From the article:
There are two ways to evaluate Sunda, the new hot-stuff, pan-Asian, megarestaurant from the Rockit Ranch crew. The first (and the method most likely for hard-core chowhounds who favor flavor over flash) is to compare every dish to its cheaper, seemingly more authentic version found in humbler surroundings around town. Don’t. What you’d find is that the skin of Sunda’s soup dumplings turns to mush and can’t contain its pork broth like those in Chinatown; that the pork belly steamed buns are heavy on the bun and light on the pork; and that the “Thai fried chicken” is indeed juicy but suffers from a modernized coconut crust and doesn’t pack nearly as much flavor as the kai thawt at a half-dozen Thai dives. A meal spent making these comparisons takes all the fun out of dining at Sunda, the one opening in recent memory that’s so excessive in scope, stature and style that it might as well tack on the tag line “Recession be damned.”
