Yami Sushi

Terrible, terrible restaurant. I ordered the teriyaki chicken, but received a pile of zucchini, carrots, and 10 small cubes of dry chicken in a watery soy sauce. There was nothing «teriyaki» nor «chicken» about this dish. There was an inexplicable absence of flavor throughout the whole meal. I also ordered the avocado/​salmon roll, which arrived warm. Warm raw fish is not only disgusting, but dangerous. I’ll never give Yami my business again, and I discourage anyone from wasting their money here.

Nothing to write home about — I order delivery all the time. it is solid sushi, though more than once they forgot one of the rolls that we ordered and paid for. After half hour on the phone, they took it off our bill (as they should have)!

Ordered delivery around 9:45pm. Food arrived in a decent manner, but the hostess who answered sounded tired, exasperated and borderline grumpy. I didn’t get an estimated delivery time.
The food was pretty bad.
We ordered hibachi chicken and steak, with fried rice, steamed dumplings, and a beef bowl. The total was $ 32 and change, and it was not worth it.
Usually when you get hibachi, you’re given a heaping portion of meat and veggies. What we received was like itty bitty nuggets of sauteed chicken and steak that just looked… tired. We didn’t even venture towards the vegetables. The fried rice looked like white rice with some veggies.
The dumplings themselves were okay. The filling was pretty inconsistent. No cabbage in one, big chunk in another. The sauce was so salty, my face actually puckered up. I can make a better sauce using hontsuyu from the grocer and all you do is add water.
The beef bowl was disappointing. Gyuudon is one of my favorite Japanese meals, and it was so bland and dry that powering through it was painful. No sauce that settles into the rice, tough and dry meat, slightly undercooked rice. I’m 80% sure they didn’t use short grain rice.
We didn’t even try the miso soup. I didn’t even open the container.
TL;DR Food was salty like the ocean and was horribly disappointing. Don’t eat here.

Horrible. I ordered the crispy tuna roll. Menu says 8 pieces. 5 arrived. Tuna cooked to gray. I piled wasabi, ginger and the spicy mayo in top and still tasteless. Total waste of money. Will never order from here again.

We had spicy tuna rolls and chicken hibachi. The spicy tuna wasn’t spicy at all and she thought we were nuts when we asked for chili paste. So brought us some pepper spice. I asked for saracha, mixed the two together.
I just remember the food and service to just be A-​OK… nothing spectacular. Lots of restaurants in the area. They need to step it up a notch. Not much flavor, good or bad.

My friend and I ordered sushi and spring rolls from here and the order took more than an hour to arrive. Normally it would be fine if the food was really tasty but sushi was mediocre at best. On top of waiting for such a long time customer service was horrible. We tried to cancel our order and the lady was insistent that we wait for the driver and even proceeded to call the driver while still on the phone with us. She also didn’t ask what method of payment we were going to use and the driver had to call back to process the credit card. Needless to say we won’t be ordering from here again.

The staff are great, they remember returning customers. I’ve been coming here a long time now. They make spicy tuna rolls the right way-​with fantastic spicy mayo, and not hiding the tuna with extra crap so you can’t tell if it’s any good, like most places in ATL. It’s subdued for date night, out of the way, and a great way to surprise someone with your regional savvy.

Ordered from GrubHub last night. We ordered sushi, ramen with pork, and a hibachi chicken entrée with fried rice. The sushi was fine.
The ramen was NOT traditional ramen, it was more like a chicken noodle soup. Instead of ramen noodles the restaurant used lo mein noodles. The broth was just a plain chicken broth, and the only «toppings» were 3 thin slices of carrot, a slice of bok choy, and a brown egg. The meat was tonkatsu style, battered deep fried pork. Not great.
The hibachi wasn’t good either. They left out the fried rice (which everyone knows is the best part), and when we called to complain they said it wasn’t worth their time to bring it back, and they’d refund $ 1.50 of our price instead. We demanded a full refund and they reluctantly brought another order of rice about 40 minutes later. Should have just taken the $ 1.50, the food was terrible.
I’ll never go back here, plenty of options in ATL for Japanese food, this has to be one of the worst.

The staff is very friendly, and the food is amazing! The vegetable fried rice, udon noodles, teriyaki noodles, and tempura are great.

Great selection of items on menu. Staff is friendly and helpful. My favorite roll is the yami maki.
Atmosphere is calm and nice.
Price is reasonable for quantity and quality.
Delivery can be a wait sometimes.
Dine in service is usually fast. Carry out has always been ready on time and accurate.

Edit: Just recently ordered from here and was not disappointed at all. Their tempura and sushi rolls were on point. I was able to order 2 rolls, chicken tempura, and egg rolls — all for 20 bucks! Changing my ratings from 2 star to 3 star.
Yuck. Very very very very less than mediocre food + horrible service. My friend had the udon noodle soup and I had the chicken katsu and both were highly disappointing. Plus there was only one server for the entire restaurant so needless to say, she took forever to come to take our orders and basically never came back after that until it was time to hand in the check. I am giving them 2 stars because they deliver and their sushi is not thaaat bad, meaning its tolerable!

Sushi is OK at best.
Hibachi is so-​so.
My expectations are reasonable… considering the caliber of restaurant.
It will do in a pinch.
What I find completely inexcusable is that they have given me spaghetti noodles instead of ramen on two occasions.
The two are NOT interchangeable.
This is simply not acceptable.

Yami Sushi is great with sushi, but NOT with ramen. If you are thinking of trying ramen for the first time, DO NOT ORDER RAMEN FROM HERE. Save yourself the money.
My boyfriend has never had Japanese ramen before, so we went here for our 3-​yr anniversary for him to try it. He ordered the seafood ramen, which only made his stomach queasy because it had bad oysters and other poorly-​cooked seafood items. I, myself, ordered the chicken ramen. Both his and my ramen were completely bland. I have had ramen from other restaurants, and they were far more superior compared to what we had today. The ramen soup was so bland. Absolutely no taste at all. The broth wasn’t even the least bit flavorful. It tasted like boiled water. When I complained about the taste to the waitress, she did not understand my disappointment either. She did nothing to address my concerns. Talk about terrible customer service.
So, save yourself the time and money. If you are looking to try Japanese ramen, do not go here. This place tarnishes the image of this wonderful Japanese noodle dish.

Sushi is okay, the fried tofu was nasty. Not worth a second try.

A terrible experience all around. I ordered through grub hub and received almost immediate confirmation. Nothing happened quickly after that. I was told my order would take 65 minutes. Which is long but not unreasonable on a friday night. two hours later, I received my food. I ordered wonton soup — which was just chicken broth with nothing in it but one slice of green onion. Very disappointing. The spring rolls were soggy and cold (not surprising since it took two hours to deliver it the 2 miles to my house. The hibachi chicken was ice cold — not sure it was ever cooked. I threw it away after one disgusting bite. I would highly recommend going anywhere else. This place should be embarrassed by their lateness and the poor quality of every item they delivered.

HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE! I will never order from these scam artist again! I order delivery at 8:05. At 9:15 I call to check status. The lady says that it should be there very soon. At 9:45 I call to cancel, the lady says she can’t and that my order will be right there. At 10:00 my food finally arrives… COLD. I call back and she tells me to put it in the microwave?!? Are you kidding? She then tells me if I want my refund that I need to bring the food to them.

We just moved to the area, and my kids love sushi, so we thought that we would give this place a try. It was not great and all the ingredients seems to be at slightly off temperatures.
I make a lot of sushi at home, so I know how it should be eaten, and these were not right.
It seems like they do a lot of business delivering to Emory students, but we will not be back.

This is my first one star rating on Unilocal.I ordered the Teriyaki chicken and shrimp, and the chicken was way overcooked.

Oh man. I wanted to like this place bc I love Japanese food (miss it so much since I moved from NY) And it’s one one of a few places that delivers to my building.
I ordered hibachi steak and salmon with mixed grilled veggies. I received some overcooked, super greasy little beef cubes and a small piece of fish that had little fibers (that looked like hair) stuck to it… like it got dropped. The veggies were also way overlooked, limp, and super oily. Everything was cold. delivery took about an hour… Bummer.
I’ll read more reviews and see if their sushi is any better.

Yami Sushi is better known for its non-​sushi items, than sushi. (The prior Unilocal reviews will confirm that.)
The location, which really is there to do take out and delivery to local Emory kids and folks in the area, is a little more black lacquer than you’d expect in a modern sushi restaurant. It shares a fairly non-​descript Kaplan anchored shopping center.
Today, I had chicken teriyaki and rice along with some vegetables — zucchini — on the side. Not bad. Not great. Decent for takeout, should that what you’d be in the mood for and don’t feel like going in.