Japanese restaurant celebrates 50 successful years in Atlanta

ATLANTA – Keep in mind after we spent a morning at Nakato Japanese Restaurant again in 2017, celebrating the institution’s forty fifth anniversary? We positive do! And now that proprietor Sachi Nakato Takahara and her crew are celebrating the restaurant’s fiftieth anniversary, we knew we would have liked to return to assist them mark the scrumptious milestone.

Nakato Japanese Restaurant first opened in 1972, when Tetsuko Nakato determined to share an genuine style of Japan right here in Atlanta. When she retired, her daughter and son-in-law took over the restaurant. And now, Tetsuko’s granddaughter is the one conserving the legacy alive, which implies three generations of Nakato girls have run the household enterprise. We requested Sachi Nakato Takahara about that legacy throughout our go to again in 2017 (which you’ll watch right here).

“We take pleasure in that,” she mentioned. “And I’m so blessed and grateful for what the generations earlier than me have put in, to permit us to be on this stage proper now.” 

Nakato’s culinary crew says it’s actually been centered on its sushi program in recent times, one thing that’s apparently paid off: we’re informed sushi gross sales have tripled for the reason that begin of the pandemic. The crew says its fish is flown in from Japan a number of instances per week, permitting for the freshest choice potential.

Nakato Atlanta is positioned at 1776 Cheshire Bridge Highway Northeast, and common hours are 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. day by day. For extra info on the restaurant and to take a look at the menu, click on right here. And click on the video participant on this article to take a look at our morning celebrating Nakato’s golden anniversary!