Roka Akor's New Spring Menu

Chef Ce Bian of Roka Akor Chicago, 456 N. Clark, brings spring dishes and cocktails to the table. The new fare, which incorporates seasonal ingredients, includes robata-grilled skate wing with wakoga, spring pea and radish ($28); Heirloom tomato salad, black garlic, shiso oil, soy vinaigrette ($15); hamachi and mebachi tartare with sudachi ($16) and uni nigiri with Wagyu tartare and caviar ($22).

Spring cocktails are the Aviation (Opihr Oriental spiced gin, Maraska Maraschino cherry liqueur, Marie Brizard Parfait Amour liqueur, lemon, Giffard Creme de la Violette and a brandied cherry); North by Northwest (Imbue bittersweet vermouth, BroVo lavender liqueur, grapefruit, lemon) and By Any Other Name, Classic Sour (Brugal extra dry rum, Combier Liqueur de Rose, grapefruit, lime, Peychaud's bitters, egg whites, rose water mist). Cocktails are $13 each. roka

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