Atami Japanese Steakhouse

Still my favorite sushi/hibachi spot in the metro Atlanta area! I will drive really far out of my way for this gem because I know I will get a quality meal, which, lets be honest can be hard to come by these days. Consistently delicious and always fast. The hibachi area is your typical experience. We’ve done that once or twice in the past. We typically get our food to go but last night we dined in the first time since the Pandemic. I always go with the Teriyaki Chicken Bento Box and my boyfriend sticks to his beloved house fried rice(I steal his shrimp) We started with pork gyoza, pan fried. The Bento Box delivers everything one could want in a Japanese dining experience. First you get Miso soup, a delightful light bright soup with fried onions (yum) and fresh mushrooms. The second course is a fresh salad with your choice of house made ginger dressing or ranch. You are wrong if you go with anything other than the ginger. I could drink the stuff. Then the Bento Box hits the table and packs a mighty punch. California roll with wasabi and ginger, Shrimp Tempura, Pork Gyoza, fried rice and the most tender chicken teriyaki over onions. You can opt for brown rice for $1 more. (They cannot make brown fried rice…I asked!) Enjoy a glass (or bottle) of sake, beer, wine or mixed cocktail. They have a huge fully stocked bar. I will continue to haunt this place till the end of my days. So good. So so good.

This is a wonderful place to eat at. It is pretty far from where we live but it's all worth it. I love the shrimp bento box! The miso soup and salad that they give in the beginning is to die for. The calamari is extremely good! The gyoza sauce is one of a kind. I have tried it at different restaurants and it is never the same as Atami's. I highly recommend eating here.

2/5 stars, for good reason. (Long story short, only given 2/5 ounces of steak for a dinner. $12 for 2oz of steak...) When ordering takeout, one of their meals is supposed to be served with a side of rice, 5oz (or 140 grams, weighed uncooked) steak and veggies. I went there today, as I often do, and ordered this meal. The cooked steak weighed out to a whopping 60 grams, missing 3/5 of the uncooked weight. When I called up to let them know something must be wrong as I'm missing half the meat I'm accustomed to, they said it wasn't a mistake and there is nothing they can do about it. So, either the 5oz of uncooked steak is being overweighed resulting in you getting less, or their steak provider is of low quality and soaks their meat before delivery to pad the weight and get more profit. Either way, after going to this place for quite some time, I expected more to be done. Credit where credit is due, after being told nothing could be done over the phone, I drove back and showed them what had been served and was begrudgingly given a refund despite my refusal. Here are pictures for proof.

Don't know how they are a 5 star Food was overpriced and not good at all. We paid for dinner hibachi and was served a small amount of everything i thought They made a mistake and gave us the lunch serving but the waiter said it was dinner but guess i should have been glad cause i didn't finish what he gave me. The salad with the dressing which i thought was ginger was nasty everything tasted like fish. Will Definitely Not eat here again. Have been to a lot of hibachi Restaurants and this one was the worst but The waiter was nice.

We ordered a to go meal having high expectations. And when we opened our order, we were very disappointed. The salad looks like it was prepackaged and left in the same container for 2 days. It was not fresh at all. It was wet and soggy and BROWN. This is without the dressing. The dressing came on the side. They obviously need to watch their quality control quite a bit more. The sushi was okay.