The World-Wide Sushi Restaurant Reference - Restaurants in Atlanta
Ru San's

Three locations:

Location 1
1529 Piedmont Avenue NE (at Monroe).
Atlanta, Georgia
Across from Ansley Mall.
Voice: +1 (404) 875-7042.
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Location 2
3365 Piedmont Road, in the Tower Place.
Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia
Voice: +1 (404) 239-9557.
Lunch hours: Mon.-Sat. 11am-11pm.
Reservations accepted.
Offers an all-you-can-eat meal (lunch buffet, $8).
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Location 3
2313 Windy Hill Road SE (at Cobb Parkway).
Marietta, Georgia
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Sample prices:

• Ama ebi nigiri (sweet shrimp), 2 pieces, $4.-
• Hamachi nigiri (yellowtail), 2 pieces, $3.-
• Maguro nigiri (tuna), 2 pieces, $2.-
• Saba nigiri (mackeral), 2 pieces, $3.-
• Sake nigiri (salmon), 2 pieces, $2.-
• Tai nigiri (snapper), 2 pieces, $2.-
• Tako nigiri (octopus), 2 pieces, $2.-
• Tamago nigiri (egg omelet), 2 pieces, $2.-
• Toro nigiri (fatty tuna), 2 pieces, $4.-
• Unagi nigiri (eel), 2 pieces, $3.-
• Ikura gunkan maki (salmon roe), 2 pieces, $3.-
• Tobiko gunkan maki (smelt/flying fish roe), 2 pieces, $2.-
• Uni gunkan maki (sea urchin), 2 pieces, $3.-
• California roll, 6 pieces, $2.-
• Crab salad roll, 6 pieces, $2.-
• Kappa maki (cucumber roll), 6 pieces, $2.-
• Tekka maki (tuna roll), 6 pieces, $3.-
• Miso soup, 1 bowl, $1.-
• Plain rice, side serving, $1.50

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Comments about this restaurant:

• From G. Ghengis (last visit May 2007)

  Variety of sushi: Broad range of uncommon items. Freshness of sushi: Clearly freshly caught. Presentation of sushi: Exceptional attention to presentation. Generosity of sushi portions: Very large portions.

  Promptness of service: Exceptionally attentive. Courtesy of service: Very courteous. Accuracy of service: Always accurate. Cleanliness - dining and visible kitchen areas: Clean. Cleanliness - restrooms: Clean. Quality of nonsushi food: Very good.

  ``Let's start with the fact that I live six hours from these restaurants, and I try to go there at least three or four times a year, even if it means driving 12 hours in a day just to eat their sushi. If you call it sushi.

  ``This place is amazing, but I hesitate to call it sushi. Sushi is traditional, it has forms and shapes that define it as fixed art form. this place takes that fixed art form and throws it out like the cubists or impressionists have done with painted art.

  ``They are in the south and have taken the south's traditions and mixed them with their own. Their specialty is deep fried sushi. Flash-fried, frying a breading or something on the outside of a roll, without cooking the inside or heating the rice. They roll together multiple rolls and flash fry them into a single unit this way, and give you large (4 inch in diameter) rounds of pinwheel like edible art. My favorite dish is called the Beetlejuice. It's a fresh tomato hollowed out, filled with a mixture of cooked shrimp and some sort of sauce, they then bread it, deep fry it cooking only the tomato, and serve it cut into slices where the shrimp mixture resembles the inside of the original tomato.

  ``The food is cheap, they even have a lunch all you can eat bar (limited selection, small pieces, but if you can get all you want...who cares?). And it's all great.

  ``My favorites: The firecracker, Gone with the wind (an art form in itself) and the beetlejuice.

  ``A great place, expect a crowd, expect noise, expect sake bombs (not my thing, but it seems to go over well) and expect a 12 page sushi menu with over 30 vegetarian items, and more creativity than I have found everywhere else.

  ``Someday I may move to Atlanta, and it will be for this restaurant.

  ``Also enjoy the art on the wall: the owner's artistic ability extends past the food. ''

• From Hunter Some (last visit October 2003)

  Variety of sushi: Broad range of uncommon items. Freshness of sushi: Fresh. Presentation of sushi: Somewhat nicer than average. Generosity of sushi portions: Very large portions.

  Promptness of service: Notably attentive. Courtesy of service: Exceptionally courteous. Accuracy of service: Always accurate. Cleanliness - dining and visible kitchen areas: Clean. Cleanliness - restrooms: Clean. Quality of nonsushi food: Good.

  ``They have a ton of maki at $1.00 or $1.50 for 3 pieces. You can get a giant meal for ten bucks, and they have a buffet for lunch at $8.95 that comes with soup and salad. The atmosphere is quite loud, with the worst pop music you've ever heard on the radio. The chefs are friendly and yell things at you when you enter and leave. The wait staff is great, they'll chat with you if you let them, and they'll probably do a sake-bomb with you if you ask. There's a lot of other stuff on the menu, including 30 or so special rolls that vary in price from 4 to about 11 dollars, some of which are quite large and complex. I always go to the Piedmont Road at Monroe Drive location.''

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