george's world

www.thaicoonatlanta.com
1799 Briarcliff Rd NE # W
Atlanta, GA 30306-2142
(404) 817-9805

So L has been having this craving for sushi recently, and as a means of filling her cravings as well as further our restaurant repertoire, we bypassed the standby Sushi Yoko and went online to find somewhere to broaden our somewhat barren horizons for sushi in Atlanta.

Our requirements were fairly simple – it had to be affordable (MF and Hayakawa were out) and somewhere new (so was Sushi Yoko).  It was also preferable that it wasn’t a buffet (*sob* bye Nori Nori).  L knows I have this thing against Yelp, because I have some egotistical thought that people who post reviews on Yelp are uncouth heathens with uneducated palates who would rather get a double cheeseburger from McDonalds.  Then I remembered that I like double cheeseburgers from McDonalds.  Regardless, Yelp is always a last resort for me.

Since the forums on Atlanta Cuisine closed down (for the umpteenth time), I didn’t have anywhere else to quietly lurk to get my inside Atlanta restaurant info. Fortunately, the regulars from Atlanta Cuisine rebanded under a new forum: 285Foodies.com.  It was there where I carefully perused all the thread titles under the restaurant section to look for my unicorn cheap sushi place here in Atlanta – some authentic hole in the wall place by some trained Japanese sushi chef that’s trying to make it big in the States. Unfortunately, if such a place exists, it still hasn’t been a) discovered, or the more likely b) leaked out even to the food connoisseur community.

At the end, I rediscovered Thaicoon – a Thai/sushi place that has a fairly silly name over by Emory.  I ate there a number of years ago, when Andy came to visit and it made for a nice weekend lunch with like 12 other people.  It obviously was not good enough to leave a very lasting impression on me food-wise, and never even really came up mentally as a working solution to the sparse Thai cuisine here.

But on to the actual experience.  We were greeted at our table by a lady who tonged us some hot towels, which reminded me of the similar service when you fly trans-Pacific on a decent airline (Air China != decent).  The sushi roll section of the menu (despite its ethnic authenticity, was what L really wanted) was surprisingly extensive, and even better is that they have specials on Monday and Tuesday from 5pm-10pm.  The constant stream of people coming in were evident of the weekly specials, and made us wonder what the place looks like on a Wednesday night.  Specials were $1 for most nigiri and $2-$3 for a 4 piece roll for select rolls.  Not too shabby, I thought, but we decided to order something off the menu anyways.

What we ended up with, via my awesome cell phone cam, after the jump.

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