The Lobby Bar

This is a bar area inside the Atlanta airport Marriott on Best road. They serve different options ranging from burgers to sushi. Refusing to pay $ 14 for a spicy tuna roll, I ordered the $ 12 Marriott burger. This burger was amazing, and I’m glad it was! It was cooked to perfection– juicy, med rare, and came with bacon, cheese, and lettuce/​tomato. Delicious!
My only complaint is against the hotel itself when my card did not work to let me in and out of the parking lot several times despite being *fixed*.

Unexpected fresh sashimi in a landlock Atlanta Marriot airport hotel. I would eat here again. Had salmon, yellow fin, and albacore sashimi. It was delicious. Thanks for the excellent service Yoshi.

Ok… sushi in a hotel lounge. I mean, something should have told me to stay away. For some reason, I wasn’t in the mood for American, Steak, or bar food. So after eating fried chicken for lunch, I figured the healthiest option (besides a workout) would be to eat low fat. So I bellied up to the bar, swallowed hard, and said hello to Yoshi the sushi chef.
Yoshi handed me a menu that was printed on a 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper. The menu was a half-​menu really — the sushi selection was limited to the basics — tuna, salmon, yellow tail, mackerel, squid, etc. There was a sushi combo for $ 35 (salad, soup, 8 pieces of sushi and either a California or spicy tuna roll). Yoshi was polite enough to entertain a request to have a half-​half roll so I could try both.
Now, when the miso soup came out, it turned out to be freeze dried soup. Yes, you can always tell that instant ramen-​ish texture of reconstituted tofu — that stuff hit my mouth like a steel toed boot. When the salad came out, the dressing was completely off-​balance — the whereas most dressings are a light ginger-​soy mixture, this one turned out to be that and spices. No me gusta.
Finally, the sushi. Yoshi was a good enough chef to make the sushi the way it should be — long, well cut pieces of fish over a SMALL rice ball — not the humongous globs of rice that other restaurants give you to fill you up and overpower the fish. The rolls were ok — it tasted like the California roll had some sort of real crab salad mixture next to the crab stick and the spicy tuna was just flat.
Overall, it did the trick and filled me up. However, paying $ 40 with tax for sushi that didn’t hit the mark never sits well with me. Marriott, do yourself a favor and go back to bar food like nachos and wings — sushi is just too delicate a dish to be attempted in the open environment of a hotel lobby/​bar.