Last week I finally scored a reservation at the intimate, 20 seat, @michelinguide Mujo in West Midtown. The unparalleled omakase experience comes with 3 Zensai, 10 sushi courses like Japanese barracuda, miso soup, delectable dessert, and a beverage pairing with an array of tasty sake, wine, and cocktail pairings to add on if you chose. On top of that, they have a list of amazing add ons and a large cocktail, wine, and sake menu you may try a la carte. Here's more about my meal: Zensai: Included some delectable dishes like my favorite the Hata Sakemushi that's the best piece of grouper I've ever had then topped with a sensational cream sauce and peas. I wanted to lick the bowl. Also really liked tempura mushroom with burnt eggplant and squid ink, as well as the warm custard with soft white asparagus and ramps. Sushi: The fish they selected are incredibly unique like fluke, seabream, or spotted knife jaw to name a few. They're super fresh and my favorite was the almost creamy and fatty toro, the goldeneye snapper, and I have to tell you about the Japanese barracuda! Earthy and charred! I was excited to try something new like this! Dessert: Roasted Sesame ice cream that's creamy and topped with rich and boozy miso rum caramel and puffed rice. Beverage pairing: 7 different beverage tastings that including a sensational Seikyo sake and a surprising Smith Madrone Riesling out of Napa Valley that drinks like a voignier! Add ons: I got two add ons and they were both upscale delicacies! The foie gras was creamy and topped with biter and sweet jam on top and floral arrangements in a puffy crunchy shell that is to be eaten like an ice cream sandwich. Waygu hand roll is two very meaty, charred, and rich meat rolled up with accoutrements in seaweed. Cocktails: The celery and gin cocktail was one of the best I've ever had! The celery infused gin was perfection. They vacuum seal the celery to bring out the flavor and it really is earthy, and herbaceous. The staff waited on me hand and foot and knew everything about the menu and beverage pairing to a T. They were impeccable!! I will admit it is pricy, but it is about the experience.

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If you're able to secure a reservation at @mujoatl you're so lucky. I enjoyed my experience and met some amazing people there. The amount of fun I had at my visit was amazing!!! Even our servers were entertained!!! The food was delicious!!! The service was outstanding!!! The atmosphere was incredible!!! I was so lucky to grab a spot at this @michelinguide restaurant. Atlanta, GA

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The dining experience is very intimate. Great date night if you can snag a reservation.

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I have been waiting WEEKS for this reservation. Unfortunately, 2 days before our reservation we had to cancel because of a death in the immediate family. We notified 52 hours in advance, but the reservation policy is 72 hours. My card was charged $980. I called to explain the circumstances, but had to leave a voicemail. Instead of returning my call, Katy from Mujo texted me that she was sorry for my loss. She said unless I could come or have someone fill the spots, that the best they could do is use the fee as a credit towards the next time I come (no upcoming reservations available). I am a previous customer (before they received a Michelin star) and had raved about their service. I am shocked by the lack of humanity and understanding of a horrible situation I am in. I of course had every intention of returning at a later date, but this entire experience has made me not want to. 2/4 seats were filled, and still they said I am unable to receive a refund, and I should be thankful I am even getting a "credit". Mujo made no attempts to fill the seats until hours before the reservation. It feels like they don't actually want customers - just to collect your cancellation fees. Instead of spending today with my loved ones, I spent it texting with Katy from Mujō and trying to find someone to take a last minute reservation. 0/10 customer experience. This Michelin Star spot has lost my recommendation and respect. You can keep my $980, and I hope you are treated differently when going through an unimaginable loss.

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The 3 stars I give here are relative to both the reputation and the price tag. This was a good sushi restaurant, with maybe a bit of a heavy hand on the wasabi. But with a Michelin star and a price tag of over $1,000 for 2 people, it is supposed to be amazing/transcendent (see Alinea, Family Meal, Florilege). It just wasn't. The food is better at Chirori down the street and you don't have to drain your savings to get it. Some of the add-on courses were interesting, but they should be part of the already-pricey omakase offering, not an extra money-grab. The service was attentive to the point of being intrusive. They are standing behind you waiting to fold your napkin if you get up from your seat at the bar. I get fine dining service, but I don't want to feel you lurking behind me the whole time I'm eating. Sadly the best memory from the meal was the incredible little spicy cubes of pickled ginger they served with the sushi. I was excited when Michelin started rating Atlanta restaurants, but they got this one wrong.

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Pricey, but you can't expect anything else from a Michelin rated restaurant. The food was incredible, tons of staff waiting on you (almost more than the number of diners), and the ambiance was beautiful. Loved this restaurant, but there are others at this level.

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Finding the entrance can be a bit tough. However, you should use the valet parking in the cottonwood lot. You will the. Go up the stairs, down a hallway and turn right at the street. This is ALL worth it because the experience is unbelievable. Start in the ante-chamber bar where you will have a complex drink made right in front of you with a very knowledgeable bartender. Ready to explain the drink and its story. After that the staff will escort you to the back room sushi bar which has very limited seating and a great atmosphere. You get personalized chef prepared sushi (omakase). The flavors of the entire menu was amazing and complex. Be sure to really savor all of the tastes as they change and evolve in your mouth. Just an amazing experience. Do yourself a favor and visit this restaurant! It's an experience like no other.

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Fabulous service, excellent menu , wine, saki and food.

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This is what you get from Mujo in return for sending a single, honest email in private instead of leaving a negative review for the world to see, out of the respect and appreciation I had for my experience at Cooks & Soldiers. I didn't even ask for a refund and my wife choked on a fishbone, for context. He said he couldn't trust a "frog" in a well with no view of the ocean, in Japanese (in case you couldn't read it, because I could), which is a common expression used in Japan to call someone "uncultured." Fred Castellucci, owner of Mujo, Cooks & Soldiers, Sugo, Iberian Pig, and Double Zero was CC'd on this email. Well, if you can't trust my opinion, then you certainly can't have my money. Although, I'm not so sure what was so uncultured about me. Was it because I walked in with an African American wife? Is that why you disrespected us so egregiously? I think the Kentucky in their sushi chef is starting to show. I don't know who they had to grease to get that star, but I no longer trust Michelin and won't buy their premium tires for my car as I am completely astonished by their lack of standards and integrity. Yokohamas and Perrellis are kinda cooler anyway. By the way, within an hour of sending my email, I was looked up on a Linked-In profile that I made and never even used once, years ago, and never received notifications from until the day I sent my email. Creepy. I will never eat at another Castellucci Hospitality Group owned establishment, again. Which is a travesty because Cooks & Soldiers was actually a really nice, unique for Atlanta experience, and I frequent that area so much with my wife and friends due to Westside Provisions District, but I will not allow myself to be disrespected like this again. I would have been fine with an apology. Correction, I'm irrelevant, if you merely would have ate your well deserved humble pie and apologized for what happened to my wife, on Valentine's Day, I would have been happy. But instead you provided us with terrible food, terrible atmosphere, and an overall terrible experience, and then proceeded to disrespect me for not being happy about it. You have no honor and you belong in Atlanta. -でーん

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I had tried to get reservations here for months and finally snagged a coveted spot that would serve as our anniversary dinner (anniversary was the week prior). We flew into ATL earlier in the day, checked into our hotel, then I came down with an eye issue (turned out to be an adverse reaction to prescription eye drops) a few hours before our reservation. (The issue ultimately swelled my eyes shut & required overnight medical care). My wife called, told the restaurant the situation, and they asked if they needed to cancel both reservations. She said she would still be coming and went on to the restaurant. No mention of still charging me was ever made on the phone. Her meal was very good, if not worth (per her) the hype this place gets. After the meal, she was presented with a bill for her omakase/drinks/apps, plus the full charge for my missed meal. I own a business, as well, so I understand cancellation policies. However, I take individual situations into consideration, as any business should. I certainly didn't book $1000 in airfare, a $400 hotel room, and note that it was our anniversary on Resy as some sort of plot to screw this place out of money. The management here is greedy & inflexible and are simply poor business people. Any desire I had to ever some back vanished in a second, so I'll have to live without Mujo, or any of the group's other places such as C & S. May the owners here one day have a painful medical emergency compounded by getting screwed over while you're down.

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The ambiance is very chic and you sat around the chefs in bar style seating where you get to see them work their magic. The food was amazing and worth the price. Great for special occasions.

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From the moment you walk in, every single staff treats you like royalty. They sand down the counters after each group of guests. The omakase chefs are such a vibe and great conversationalist. Each dish was an elevated experience of ingredients/foods I've had. For example, the steamed eggs with scallops are a common comfort food in many asian countries. However, its usually made with dried scallops and the egg was put through a strainer to have a perfectly smooth flan like texture in Mujo's version. All the cuts of fish were extremely fresh and eat bite was the perfect size. I've never had nigiri sliced so smoothly! The starter amuse was a smoked salmon (literally you eat a puff of smoke) in a thin pastry crisp. Such unique textures! We opt to add on wagyu and caviar- both were exquisite and i was very full at the end of my meal!

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An extraordinary experience, choreographed to deliver delight for all of our senses while immersed in an understated environment designed to enrich our enjoyment. Greeted as you enter, and informed at each step of the journey, every whisper amplified our anticipation of the experience. Each of the attentive professionals that guided us through this journey - from expertly prepared cocktails, previews of the menu, pairing perfectly balanced libations for each course - greatly enhanced the main event. The meal was meticulously prepared and served by a true artisan in a mesmerizing ballet as we watched while time stood still. Each of the plates set before us delivered subtle scents, savory flavors, and wide-ranging textures that delivered a truly sublime experience. Our finest compliments to the watchful team that quietly guided us through the evening, including the sous chefs that remained unseen. It was our highest honor to have been served by the incomparable Executive Chef J. Trent Harris.

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You enter through a large door with very little markings on it. There are about 10-12 seats to the entire restaurant. The waiters literally stand behind you and wait on you throughout the experience. I would definitely call this tasting menu an experience that you will likely not forget. The food was amazing and mentioned to my wife that this one will make the Michelin star list. And recently it was recognized as such.

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Atlanta, a city known for comforting southern food, never competed or wanted to compete for that matter in fine dining space with the rest of the world. Yet, things are evolving. Mujo, is ran by chef Trent Harris who trained at world renowned Ginza Onodera in Tokyo and New York. The restaurant is the most exquisite entry to dining space by Castelucci group that also owns Iberian Pig, Cooks and Soldiers and Double Zero. And one must say, the execution is beautiful. Our waiters Kiki and Alex were unbelievably attentive and highly knowledgeable, arguably making this experience whole. Even some of the more challenging sake inquiries were addressed with ease by Kiki. Alex anticipated every detail of service, from chairs when people got up to folding napkins. He even wiped the sushi stone in between courses. It was a pleasure to converse with him also. The service front of Mujo is comparable to 2 and 3 Michelin starred restaurants in major metropolitan areas. Only tweak that could be recommended is figuring out a way to do menu introductions and course descriptions facing the guests and looking at them instead of standing behind them, which felt slightly uncomfortable for the duration that it lasts. On one hand you want to look the person in the eyes who is going out of their way to tell you about every line item on the menu, on the other doing so requires doing some sort of a 180 turn of the back for a rather long time. The meal started off with a whitefish foam crisp, continued to a few vegetable focused dishes like Japanese Squash with curry and Egg custard with fried mushrooms. As with any dining experience of this caliber, it would not be expected that guests would love every dish and such was the case here, with some mixed reactions. The rest was nigiri courses edomae style. The fish here is pre-cut at the start of the dinner instead of being sliced individually for each course. The fish selection is unique and interesting. While there are a few more common fish served like fatty tuna and golden eye snapper, many were more surprising choices like Kohada, Aji and Pike mackerel. Hokkaido Uni is spectacular also. The main improvement areas are in the space of balances. The fish profile and taste was heavily obscured by the rice which was quite substantial in its rice vinegar percentage, thus overshadowing the beautiful cuts. The cuts also seemed a bit on the thinner side for the rice, thus creating a constant desire to actually taste the fish, yet making it very difficult to do so. Without a doubt, preparations were still very tasty, yet for a restaurant of this caliber, a few details must still be pointed out. One of the unexpected highlights was the house made pickled ginger, which was incredibly tasty and could be enjoyed without anything else. Presentation across the board was extremely solid, with a certain level of creativity and edomae tradition. Gorgeous plates, Reidel glassesware and gold accented spoons. The only presentation item that was disappointing was miso soup, served in a thin plastic cup that was neither pleasant to hold nor considerate health wise to pour a hot liquid into thin plastic that almost certainly releases toxins. While picking apart a few details may be overbearing, the team here did a remarkable job putting together a show in the form of a dinner. Mujo could not be a more welcome addition to the city and can only continue to build its reputation from this point.

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This isn't close to being a 1 star (or any star) experience The sushi/omakase is average at best for this price point I got an "supplement" that was perch and it was close to $30 for a single piece. The price point is way too high for what they serve The service, especially the sommelier, is overly fussy and, I found frankly pushy. With alcohol, the "supplement(s)," and gratuity, the meal was around $450 or 500. Just not worth it on any measure. Nothing was memorable. Don't confuse expensive with exquisite.

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