A new restaurant is coming to a familiar space in Dunwoody. Sushi Kingdom, a restaurant with one existing location in Greenville, South Carolina, has signed a lease to backfill the 7,400 square foot former Macaroni Grill turned Wild Wing Cafe in Ashford Place (4788 Ashford Dunwoody Road). The restaurant opened as a Macaroni Grill before becoming a Wild Wing in 2015. The wing joint closed last May and has been vacant since.
According to the Sushi Kingdom Facebook page, the restaurant primarily features an All You Can Eat (AYCE) menu but with the option to dine à la carte or get delivery, if preferred. The restaurant's menu suggests that there has been at least one across the board price increase since opening, but that the eatery still delivers on its value proposition.
An adult ACYE at lunch is $18.95 and at dinner is $28.95. Interestingly, the restaurant has two different kid prices, those age 3-6 are $8.95 at lunch and $13.95 at dinner while kids ages 7-10 are $11.95 at lunch and $17.95 at dinner. Apparently kids over 10...despite having likely just graduated elementary school, 11 year olds are deemed adults. The lunch menu is only offered during the week with the dinner menu offered all day Saturday and Sunday.
The Greenville menu further explains that there is a two hour dining limit for lunch and dinner and that the restaurant reserves the right to impose a surcharge for food waste. Sharing food with any non ACYE guest will also result in a surcharge but there is interestingly no mention of a restriction on food "to-go."
If Sushi Kingdom delivers on service and value, it will no doubt be a welcome addition to the community. Dunwoody is currently without an AYCE sushi option with the closest eatery likely Nori Nori at the corner of Abernathy and Roswell Roads in Sandy Springs. The Nori Nori pricing is considerably more expensive with weekend dinner topping out at $44.95. Curiously, child meal pricing at Nori Nori is determined not by age but by height.
These prices and policies are for the existing location so it's fair to say they will be similar, but it's not yet known what the situation will be in Dunwoody. It's also unclear whether birth certificates will be required for child pricing.
In Ashford Place, Sushi Kingdom joins existing eateries Chili's and 101 Bagel Cafe. A more than 7,000 square foot restaurant space that was most recently home to Memphis BBQ Co. remains vacant.
Sushi Kingdom will look to find greater success in Dunwoody than another Carolina import found. The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based concept, opened at Perimeter Mall in April 2016 but was closed by January 2019. P.F. Chang's marked their return to Dunwoody when they opened in the majority of the former Cowfish this past February.
What is currently your favorite place for sushi in Dunwoody? Do you think there is one AYCE sushi joint in metro Atlanta that is the best? What is your favorite type of sushi roll?
Please share your thoughts below.
23 comments:
Nori Nori and hope this place is comparable.
I'd much rather have a regular sushi place because there is currently no good sushi in Dunwoody. the only guarantee at an AYCE place is that the food will not be high quality. That's bad when you're eating raw seafood. Good luck to their diners - may the odds be ever in your favor.
I think the best sushi restaurant physically located in Dunwoody is Budi’s Sushi Two Go.
Too close to Buckhead crime. Probably will be shot up.
best sushi in dunwoody is on thursday, when fresh market sells $5 plates of sushi. Otherwise, the sushi restaurants there are nothing special. This one will be priced higher than in Greenville. Most Dunwoody folks know to travel to the Buford Hwy corridor or to the Doraville Super H shopping center for great sushi.
You really feel the need to comment this on every post, huh?
Buckhead guy is getting really unhealthily obsessed at this point.
I wish them well, but that shopping center is pretty cursed, restaurant-wise. While it's only a block away from the Walmart and the Publix centers, that seems to be a block too far.
It's not like they'll get any spillage from other tennants in there as I can't imagine the Harbor Freight crowd is jonesing for all you can eat sushi after picking up some welding stick and sawzall blades...
Chili's hanging on but barely.
RIP Macaroni Grill, Wild Wing Cafe, Grady's, Smokey Bones, Memphis BBQ
Definitely!!!
Definitely!!
IF you like Fresh Market sushi Thursday, try Kroger sushi Wednesday (Ghetto Kroger location, not Kosher Kroger). Their sushi is good and I think it is $6 on Wednesday (used to be $5).
I think the right restaurant would do fine in that center. Memphis BBQ used to be packed when it first opened but the food was just barely mediocre. Pure Taqueria would work there.
The NFA Burger guy whould open in that center. I think he's satisfied with his table in the gas station though.
You really are missing the point. I am making those comments with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek so that the actual pricks don’t get the first word in. Also, and I hope this gets posted, I am trying to drive home the point to Eli that he doesn’t have to let actual racist comments go public on here. This is a private forum and there is literally no reason to allow racist assholes to comment.
something fishy about all you can eat sushi
Your point is really dumb then. “Let me say it so they can’t say it first!”
I can’t believe people eat RAW fish…absolutely disgusting, never understood that
@Anonymous: Stick to your little kid's palate of hamburgers and fries
Budi Sushi in Dunwoody Village, right behind Village Burger, is amazing. Pricey, but amazing.
Why do I get the feeling you both are the same person ?
My what an insipid statement
Considering one of those restaurants literally held a maga rally I have 0 feels for them. Pretty sure it was the bbq one
Any news from on opening date?
Go cry about it somewhere else, snowflake.
Just spoke with a couple of guys working on the refurb and got a quick tour. Amazing what they’ve done with the interior. They told me the restaurant will open next month.
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