{"id":720411,"date":"2010-04-20T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:25:42","slug":"first-look-bishoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/720411","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Bishoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3037\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3037\" title=\"bishoku2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/bishoku2-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"Nasu karashi -- eggplant with miso-mustard sauce\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nasu karashi &#8212; eggplant with miso-mustard sauce<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A friend and I stopped in for lunch today at <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.accessatlanta.com\/sandy-springs-ga\/venues\/show\/1345225-bishoku-japanese-restaurant\"><strong>Bishoku Japanese Restaurant<\/strong><\/a> in Sandy Springs &#8212; a spot that has been getting good play on local food blogs. It has a unique presence in the Atlanta Japanese food scene: the lengthy menu offers a number of small plates much like you&#8217;d find at<strong> Shoya Izakaya<\/strong>, <strong>Hashiguchi, Jr<\/strong>., or <strong>Sushi Yoko<\/strong>. In other words, it has bona fides. This place is a real Japanese restaurant, not a sushi-fusion whatever.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike those other places, which push the booze, Bishoku is kind of fancy. Dark wood, soft lighting and discreet nooks create a serene effect. There is\u00a0 no bar and no bottle of liquor in sight, though I think the restaurant serves beer, sake and shochu. A large sushi bar dominates the center of the room.<\/p>\n<p>The young, businesslike woman making the rounds of tables is <strong>Jackie Fukuya Merkel<\/strong>, the owner and daughter of the founding owners of Sushi Huku &#8212; a longtime Northside favorite.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasu karashi &#8212; eggplant with miso-mustard sauce A friend and I stopped in for lunch today at Bishoku Japanese Restaurant in Sandy Springs &#8212; a spot that has been getting good play on local food blogs. It has a unique presence in the Atlanta Japanese food scene: the lengthy menu offers a number of small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31px","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}