Shoya Izakaya

Foods great until you see that they have roaches. And then they make you fight for a discount after squishing the roach in front of you they said it's a KNOWN problem and we got 10% that's it squished a ROACH in front of us and basically shrugged and said they're working on it

This place has incredible food. Possibly the best fatty tuna nigiri I’ve had. Get it. yellow tail collar is excellent. Everything was great. Have to come back to even begin to touch the huge menu.

Great food and atmosphere! Highly recommend, authentic izakaya without breaking the bank

Our most favorite Japanese restaurant. Excellent food and reasonable prices. Always too crowded and you will need to wait for quite a long time but worth the wait

Awful awful service, story time: We came to Atlanta from out of town and were really excited to try this restaurant. We arrived at 9:25 on a Sunday and were told that the kitchen is closing. Confusing because their online closing time says 10:30… we decide to come in regardless and being as considerate as we could we rushed to put in our order within seconds. We continued trying to be extremely nice to our server out of kindness and were met by multiple snarky comments like ‘i already cleaned everything’ and being told ‘kitchen has already closed!’ when i was simply looking at the menu out of curiosity because we been so rushed in the first place to order that I didn't get to truly look at anything. god forbid i decide to come back after feeling so unwelcome. After all this we were the first to leave among other customers who were there before us and had the door locked on us immediately after stepping outside. Mind you this is at 10:00 still 30 minutes before closing time. I highly recommend this business change their operating hours if this is how quest will be treated when arriving an hour before closing time. Honestly would’ve preferred to be turned away at the door, than to have had our night ruined by the rudeness we experienced. Food was incredible and i hate to see it ruined by such awful service.

We arrived an hour and a half before they were scheduled to close and the kitchen was already closing… our server was immediately rushing us to order something and we had no time to even look over the menu and he just gave us his recommendations to order from. On top of that his demeanor was very unprofessional and my ONE very basic question “does this beer come in a can?” was met with unwarranted sarcasm, sassy and irritated facial expressions and just overall rudeness. I understand being in a hurry to leave, but it especially rubbed me the wrong way because I was being very polite. Overall, the food was close to authentic but the service ruined the entire experience.

Always a pleasant experience. Quality service & excellent quality food. Update 10 Feb 2024: recently tried the pork belly in soup and it was divine. Vegetarian options: Vegetarian options limited but present. There's a vegetable section on the menu & some of the kushiyaki are vegetarian friendly.