Dowize Bistro

Very reasonably priced. I had summer rolls and roast duck noodle soup. The filling for summer rolls is the way that restaurants distinguish themselves from the pack. This was the rare well balanced veggie version. The filling was composed of just the right mix of rice noodles, bean sprouts, mint and tofu. The peanut dipping sauce was also good.
My duck soup had as much duck as I would have wanted.

Terrible and pulverized chicken. Stale cookies. Not enough sauce. Disgusting tempura. If you want a good meal walk across the street to Koya.

Very nice service. Excellent curries. Lunch special is hard to beat — big lunchbox of food for a reasonable price.

An average Thai restaurant. If you have a craving for good Thai food, this wouldn’t be my first choice. However, it is convenient and parking is generally easy It’s a small place, shoebox shaped, with tables along each wall. Clean and nicely decorated.
It does get drafty on cold nights as customers are coming and going.
I had the pad Thai with chicken. Even though I was there at dinner time, the portion was smallish — more like a lunch special sized serving.
As far as service, the wait staff is cordial, but that’s about it. The wait staff might as well be the bus staff, as there is very little communication with customers. No recommendations or small talk. Just take orders and serve the food and bring the bill.
In actuality, nothing about the restaurant beckons my return. Unless, of course, I need something convenient and quick.
Don’t expect any huge positives here. Just Mediocrity. Thus, the 3 star rating.

Good orange chicken, and very tasty curry fried rice. Excellent restaurant for sit-​down dinner or takeout.

We saw the ratings on Unilocal and decided to get a papaya salad to go. My wife and I both enjoy the papaya salads at other Thai restaurants.
The restaurant was pleasant and clean. The two front of house people seemed busy with carryout orders. One took mine and it came out 10 minutes later. We ordered the salad medium spicy since one of the Unilocal reviewers called it bland.
My wife and I ate the salad at home. The papaya was fresh but there wasn’t that much of it, and the amounts of ground peanuts and green beans were too small. The salad also had lettuce which I have never had in a papaya salad before. I disliked that because it’s a filler. Worse, one piece of lettuce was brown, a real turnoff.
The spiciness was actually a little more aggressive than medium, so the salad is certainly not bland.
Yes, it’s only 6.25 but there’s not enough papaya, beans and peanuts, lettuce has no business in a papaya salad and brown lettuce has no business in a restaurant.
That having been said, they have a busy carryout business and maybe there are great items elsewhere on the menu. But I can’t recommend the papaya salad and I’ll likely not be back.

Love love love this place.
First, the staff here are the most sweetest people ever. They are always smiling and come to your table as quick as possible when you need them. For them, I would come here again.
I ordered the volcano roll and chicken satay skewers. The roll was alright. Nothing spectacular but it was good. Same goes for the chieck satay skewers. The food is decent. I wouldn’t highly recommend it, but I might try something else when I go next time!
P. S. If you order from here through delivery, it comes super fast!

This is a pleasant venue in which to get some flavorful Thai food. Although the menu offers a little variety of the Asian flair, it is good quality food with strong flavors. I’ve only been here once for dinner, so the perspective is very specific to one dish. The prices were fairly standard for the options available.
It was later in the evening on a Monday, so the venue was fairly quiet as is to be expected. The staff was welcoming and hospitable, which make the calm evening dinner that much better. I will have to dry a couple more dishes, but I am definitely willing to visit again.

Great place for a quick lunch. Many options to choose from. The flavor was bit bland side, few spices took care of that. The service is quick and staff is very friendly.

Dowize is a great downtown Wilmette joint! The interior is small but cute, the service is fast and the food is always fresh and tasty! For the price, they give very generous portions! Every time I come here I am very satisfied and it doesn’t hurt to get a $ 9 dinner. Highly recommend their curry and meat entrees as well as their sushi! Delicious!

I’ve been here for dine in Dinner and a delivery lunch and I feel like Dowize is one of the best options for Thai food for an Evanston resident who can go a little further out of town.
Their Pad Thai is above average and fresh and their appetizers are great as well. I would recommend their delivery (for some reason GrubHub has a farther range than the delivery on their site so if you are in Evanston use GrubHub) for lunch since their 7 $ lunch plates are a great deal, getting you miso soup, a small salad with ginger dressing, 2 pieces of an fried appetizer of your choice, and a good portion of an entrée. If you order about 15 $ too they have a free Spring Roll offer which is pretty sweet as well.
For ~20 $ including delivery fees I got 2 plates, the order of free Spring Rolls, and a side of vegetables (to bring the subtotal up to 15). Really good value considering how much comes with the plates and the freebies. The dinner service is pretty standard and still good but has less value than the lunch since they don’t offer the many additions as the lunch plates and the prices are higher.

One of the only sushi places in the area open for a late lunch. The food here was great, the service was fast and friendly and the décor is really cozy. They also offer lots of vegetarian options and substitutions.

Was not a fan. The Thai iced coffee tasted like shitty chocolate milk. The Tom yum soup was not Tom yum! And they used regular mushrooms, not the Tom yum mushrooms. The pad Thai was ok but bland. Would not reorder.

Very friendly and respectful, I only order for pickup and their food is very fresh and consistently good, the lunch specials are the perfect amount of food and are decently priced

I give this place 4.5 stars. Their pad thai has tons of vegetables and is some of the better pad thai I’ve had. Their ramen is tasty, as well. The broth is salty, but not overbearing. Their delivery service is fantastic and pretty fast. It averages 20 – 40 minutes, which is shorter than expected, as I am out of their 2-​mile range.

Excellent service and very accommodating for kids. The three kids options offer great variety of Asian and American foods.
Adult entrees are average size and packed with excellent flavor.
Small place, nice atmosphere, and really a hidden gem of the north shore.

I live around the area and this place is great. Their crab rangoons are great. They are crispy and somewhat sweet. I ordered a bi bim bob which is a Korean rice dish. The rice was okay and the vegetables were well coked. Their spicy sauce is amazing! The sushi rolls are small but they taste very fresh. Beware, the portions are small so do not expect tons of rice and vegetables to take home as leftovers. The price is affordable and the food is quite good. They also have lunch boxes for seven dollars during lunch hours. The atmosphere of the place is very subtle. I will definitely try some other dishes.

Excellent Cuisine.
We tried the Orange Duck, which was very tasty and cooked perfectly. Not overly sweet. Try it if you love duck.
The steamed Shrimp Shu Mai was very good. They give you four with sauce. I think the portion could be bigger for the price.
The Shredded Papaya Set comes with Sticky Rice and Chicken Satay pieces & sauce. Recommended.
Lastly we had the Bip Bim Bop with beef.
The menu reads it comes with sauce but there was no sauce at all. Very disappointing. It was dry.
We did take out on the internet using
After ordering online, our order was suppose to arrive in 45 mins; which seemed quite long since we lived less than ten mins away. But perhaps the snow storm made traveling tough. Anyway, the 45 mins came and went. We called after giving them 10 more minutes.
Once we called, they said they never looked at the internet orders. Great :(
They also said once they looked, it wasn’t there. Weird.
We just wound up stating our order over the phone and the man said it will be quick.
No apology, no free app.
We waited 25 mins more, after ordering over the phone, with our initial complaint.
Review: excellent authentic flavors
Ordering online: Not Recommended!!!
Delivery Rating: delivery man took a phone call when he was dropping off the food to us.
Best time to order for delivery: Before 4:30pm to beat the dinner rush.
Highly recommended to dine in/​call in using a phone for delivery.

Small quaint restaurant in downtown Wilmette. I was curious to try this out since it is in my neighborhood. The name doesn’t help to tell you what kind of food is served but it did say Thai Bistro with Sushi, however there were Cantonese food options and Korean food options as well.
My husband ordered the Udon noodle dish with tempura and I ordered the Bi Bim Bop so one Japanese and one Korean entrée and sad to say it was only mediocre.
The udon was al dente and it really should have had a softer texture to the bite and the tempura was not deep fried fresh or if it was, it wasn’t crispy as expected.
The Bi Bim Bop tasted like a Chinese version of fried rice. The beef was sliced too thick and therefore rough and tough to eat.
We shared the fresh roll which was nice and fresh, but too many vegetables and only one slice of tofu which didn’t leave much for flavor.
I have to agree with my husband, they should narrow their menu down to what they do best and not try to be pan-​Asian.
They serve bubble tea and fruit smoothies that I didn’t have enough room to try, but will give it another try.

Great lunch deal! For a busy lunch hour when I can’t cook or go somewhere in downtown Evanston, this is my go-​to place to grubhub now for lunch.
I’ve ordered around 11:30 right when they start accepting orders, and even though grubhub always estimates delivery for around 1hr, we get it within 30 minutes. And it’s always packaged carefully. Sauces on the side, soy sauce wrapped, soup in a separate bag, etc. There’s also coupons for free items on qualifying orders which make me feel soo much better about the delivery fee.
The lunch bentos and plates are both really great deals. A salad, soup, california rolls, tempura for ~$ 10. This an enormous around of food — I only finished half of my entrée with everything. Then again, I think the best option is still the $ 7 lunch plates. I love that it comes with a small order of an appetizer. I love variety, and such great prices for it in this area is so rare.
The food… teriyaki chicken and pad thai were pretty generic. The pad thai tasted particularly boring, like peanut+soy sauce instead of an actual recognizable pad thai. Enjoyable though, even if it’s inauthentic. Best of all, it’s not overly salty. The tonkatsu (apparently) does come with an authentic tangy plum sauce, but out of the twice we’ve ordered it, one of the pork chops was dry and fried too long and way too salty… so maybe there are some consistency issues. The sashimi they serve is mediocre though, even for Chicago.
Food isn’t outstanding, but it’s not bad at all, especially for the price. Gonna be ordering from here a lot more, especially with winter coming.