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(404) 253-2010

990 Piedmont Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30309 33.7816 -84.3807

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Neighborhoods: Midtown, Northeast, Northeast

Price:

$$

Last updated 2.15.11

Category:

Restaurants

Payment Methods:

American Express, Visa, Discover, MasterCard

Cuisine:

Japanese, Asian, Sushi

Smoking Permitted:

Yes

What People Are Saying About Nickiemoto's

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In Short – Strategically located on Midtown's power corner, this fast-paced, noisy bistro combines a dance-club sensibility, an eye-catching sushi bar and a fun, bamboo-covered patio. The interior features stage set lights, primary colors and free-floating decorative panels. But the action is at the sushi bar, located inside an ellipsoid wood-and-steel tower. Heavily Americanized sushi offers your best bet, since even no-nonsense basics like shrimp tempura or spicy tuna can be hit or miss.

Editor's Tips

Parking:
The enforced valet parking here is nightmarish. We didn't tell you, but park somewhere on Piedmont and walk over.
When to Go:
Drop by for cocktails and fried snacks on Geisha drag night Mondays.
ambiance
100.0% positive
  1. Fresh Sushi, cool ambiance
  2. Great servers, food, and ambience!
  3. Nickiemoto's has a great location.
  4. The food is delicious and the atmosphere is great!
food quality
84.09000396728516% positive
  1. ended up with a headache and didn't enjoy my meal, which was lackluster at best.
  2. Why can't the sushi be as nice.
  3. Nickiemoto's is good sushi
  4. hot date restaurant & yummy food
  5. The sushi is awesome.
  6. The crab rangoons are excellent too.
  7. The fried rice is also great.
  8. The food is decent.
  9. The Yami Yami Roll is my favorite sushi roll ever.
  10. Have eaten here a couple of times and always found it to be a pretty good option from some of the more known sushi bars.
  11. The sushi is always fresh and the service is generally impecable (although we have had not super friendly waiters in a couple of ocassions).
  12. Very fresh susshi
  13. We had a very nice meal here.
  14. The food is delicious and the atmosphere is great!
  15. Great servers, food, and ambience!
  16. The food quality is very mediocre yet not bad with its presentation, in my opinion good food can be served on paper plates for all I care.
  17. Good sushi, nice nightlife scene.
  18. So, if you want to grab some americanized suhsi at a fashionable place, it is a good place to go but if you really enjoy sushi, not recommended.
  19. If you've never had sushi prepared by a true sushi-chef(minimum of seven years of study),then you'll probably enjoy the sushi here and anywhere else they "crank out" the food with no attention to detail,textures,or presentation.
  20. The restaurant is cool but he sushi is a little weird.
  21. best cooked fish in the city!
  22. Not the best sushi I ever had
overall
100.0% positive
  1. Nikimogo's is a really nice restaurant.
  2. So, if you want to grab some americanized suhsi at a fashionable place, it is a good place to go but if you really enjoy sushi, not recommended.
service
61.11000061035156% positive
  1. However, the service is not so good.
  2. good time and great service.
  3. good improvement could also start with the service, no one should have to wait 15 min for a napkin!
  4. The service is great.
  5. The sushi is always fresh and the service is generally impecable (although we have had not super friendly waiters in a couple of ocassions).
  6. We got a booth and were greeted by a rude server.
  7. Great servers, food, and ambience!
  8. The staff was friendly and accomodating.
  9. Service can be a little slow- the last 2 times I've been we waited over 10 minutes before even being greeted by our server.
wait time
0.0% positive
  1. Service can be a little slow- the last 2 times I've been we waited over 10 minutes before even being greeted by our server.
4 Star Rating: Recommended

04/22/09

Very fresh susshi

by millercy

Most of the reviews I read are over a year old so I thought I would update as of April 2009. We had a very nice meal here. The staff was friendly and accomodating. The fish was very fresh and nicely prepared. Would definitely go back.

  • Pros: fresh fish, nice drinks, nice staff
  • Cons: none that come to mind
1 Star Rating: Poor

12/17/07

Poor, Poor Service

by atlmidtown

Living around the corner, I have visited this place a few times. The food is decent. However, the service is not so good. Last visit, our order was taken and food came about 15 min served by someone out of the kitchen. Not sure, where our waiter was, because we hadn't received our drinks yet.

Tonight we arrived around 6:30 PM, there was around 8-9 tables of customers. The host seated us at the back of the restaurant behind the sushi bar when there were plenty of seats open. After about 15 min of no service, we made contact with the waiters...no order yet. The host peeked back around the corner, so we waited about 5 more minutes hoping he would find someone for us. No such luck . We finally decided after 20 minutes to leave. As we walked toward the door, the 2 hosts turned and started talking to each other and completed ignored us as we walked out the door. I have never been treated so rude.

  • Pros: Good location.
  • Cons: Poor service. Rude host and hostest.
1 Star Rating: Poor

05/21/07

What trendy is and good is not

by kdmitry

This restaurant is a joke. Unless you are treasuring generic high-tech interiors, high attitude of personal and drag shows more then your food you should not even consider visiting. This is a good example of what trendy is and good is not.

  • Pros: Generic/familiar Japanese cuisine for novice
  • Cons: Rather sloppy and high attitude service + Generic/familiar Japanese cuisine for novice
3 Star Rating: Average

04/27/07

lousy treatment of customer

by peajayatl

Don't go there. The "complimentary" valet is a rip-off. After spending $100 at the restaurant, I walked across the street for about 10 minutes. When I returned, the valet guys intimidated me into paying $10 dollars before they would give me my car. They threatened to call the police if I didn't pay. They did this AFTER I had already given them their tip. What a lousy way to treat a long-term loyal customer that has given that business hundreds of dollars over the years. I will never go there again after such a miserable experience.

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

12/11/06

Fresh Sushi, cool ambiance

by mbeja

We love this Sushi place and the restaurant itself is really cool looking. It is the tipical midtown crowd after all!! The sushi is always fresh and the service is generally impecable (although we have had not super friendly waiters in a couple of ocassions).

  • Pros: Great sushi
  • Cons: It could be a little loud

The Details on Nickiemoto's

Place Categories:

  • probably enjoy sushi
  • delicious food
  • great service
  • really nice restaurant
  • nice patio
  • love sushi place
  • rude server
  • truly enjoyed experience
  • very nice meal
  • accomodating staff
  • cool ambiance
  • great purple haze sake
  • fresh susshi
  • good improvement
  • pretty good option
  • still enjoyable setting
  • love catfish
  • great ambience
  • not friendly waiters
  • lousy treatment
  • great atmosphere
  • cold nights
  • enjoyed aspects
  • great location
  • favorite sushi roll
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