Red Heart Rolls on RA Sushi Limited-Time-Only Menu

Red Heart rolls and Passion Punch Bowl comprise a heavenly Valentine month food and drink match up at RA Sushi Bar Restaurant. They’re just two of the items on the Midtown restaurant’s limited-time-only menu featuring spicy and brightly hued items created to help Atlantans break free from winter’s cold clutches. Look for chili garlic shrimp for $11.25, $9 crunchy yami rolls and Red Heart rolls for $10.95 to warm innards. While king crab salad with avocado and mixed greens for $17.50 and seared ahi tuna on grilled asparagus remind us that spring will soon be here. Cocktails to perk up a wintry day or night include a light and slightly sweet lychee margarita and the blue ginger martini that shakes together Pinnacle Blueberry vodka, crushed blueberries and fresh ginger for $8.50. Sake hounds, sip on the $16 Ty Ku Coconut Nigori premium sake or opt for a flight of three specially selected two-ounce sake pours for $9. Rendezvous at the tropical Passion Punch Bowl for two (or the Baby Passion for one) and sail away on Amaretto Di Saronno, pineapple vodka, passion fruit and aged rums charged with coconut water and juices. Keep these tempters on your RA-radar through March. 

Retail Therapy at RA Sushi

How early are you heading out on the busiest shopping day of the year? Depending on your endurance level, you may be ready for a RA Sushi Bar Restaurant Retail Therapy break by midmorning or mid-afternoon! RA Sushi is onboard to revive weary shoppers, extending its popular happy hour from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Black Friday, November 28. Relax. The menu posts more than 25 sushi and appetizers priced from $3.39-$8.89, and there's no doorbuster pressure to nab prize morsels such as Viva Las Vegas and Rainbow rolls, "RA"ckin' shrimp, Tootsy maki, pineapple cheese wontons, chicken yakitori and California rolls. A creative cocktail such as the Lotus Blossom or Asian Flirtation along with beer and wine specials might be just the thing to soothe jangled bell jitters, and prices of $3-$7 go easy on the wallet. Guys ready to call it a day before the gals will be thrilled to know RA Sushi has screens in the bar for sports viewing. RA Sushi guests can obtain two hours of validated parking in the 1010 Midtown parking garage off Crescent Avenue.

RA Sushi's #ThankfulThursday Contest

Shorter days mean you can take off those dark shades. RA Sushi Bar Restaurant encourages replacing them with rose-colored ones then taking a fresh look around. RA ha! See -- there's so much to be thankful for and not take for granted. Traffic tribulations morph into automobile appreciation. Scorching supper is a good excuse to chillax at RA Sushi in Midtown. Living in gratitude for every little thing can be transforming. Spread thanksgiving around this month through RA Sushi's #ThankfulThursday promotion. Tap out those thankful thoughts on your keyboard, phone or tablet (being thankful for any of those options) using "#rasushi" and "#ThankfulThursday." RA Sushi will select a #ThankfulThursday entry each week during November to receive $50 in RA Bucks! 

New Sushi and Hand Rolls Rock RA Sushi Menu This Summer

RA Sushi Bar Restaurant understands summer appetites and has rolled out a new appetizer and sushi and hand rolls available through September 30. Some of these exclusive menu items include lightly fried edamame wontons ($8), a seared dill salmon roll with cool cucumber, avocado and arugula topped with seared salmon ($11) and a shrimp-calamari tempura roll that incorporates cucumber, avocado and cream cheese topped with crunchy tempura and a drizzle of sweet eel sauce ($9.50). If that’s not enough, three of RA Sushi’s hand rolls from menus past are back by popular demand for $5.50 each. Before summer ends, try the spicy tuna hand roll, the chili ponzu yellowtail hand roll with chili ponzu sauce and the shrimp tempura hand roll with shrimp, kani kama crab mix, tuna mix, creamy wasabi sauce, avocado and cucumber.

Appetizing Aperture: Nicky's Week at RA Sushi Bar Restaurant

The 10^th annual Nicky’s Week continues through Sunday, May 31 at RA Sushi Bar Restaurant in Midtown. One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital -- that’s $1.2 million since the event began in 2005. Read about Nicky Mailliard, the inspiring boy behind Nicky’s Week, and pick up the menu here.

RA Sushi Nicky’s Week Benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital May 25-31

All across the U.S., RA Sushi Bar Restaurant locations will offer a special Nicky’s Week menu from Sunday, May 25 through Saturday, May 31. Order up any of these items at the Midtown location and relish them knowing that 100 percent of sales goes straight to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Choices include edamame, Tootsy maki, shrimp nigiri, pork gyoza, chicken yakitori, garlic citrus yellowtail tapas, plus a variety of select beverages. The inspiration behind the effort is Nicky Mailliard, a St. Jude's patient and nephew of one of RA Sushi's founders. The 13-year-old inspired many RA Sushi employees during his brave battle against brain cancer in 2005. Since the inception of Nicky’s Week nine years ago, RA Sushi has raised more than $1.3 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Celebrate Tax Day Tuesday with Specials at RA Sushi

Celebrate the end of tax season at RA Sushi Bar Restaurant’s Tax Day Tuesday event. Special pricing will extend from 3 p.m. to close on Tuesday, April 15, so take advantage of the extra hours, no matter how sweet or sad your return will be. Items vary in price and size. Choose from edamame ($2.25), salmon nigiri ($3.25), spicy sesame chicken wings ($5.25), grilled short ribs ($6.25) and “RA”ckin’ shrimp ($7.25), as well as some RA tapas and a slew of other rolls and starters.

Appetizing Aperture: RA Sushi Bar Restaurant

Spoon or hand? Soup or roll? Lunch, break or dinner? RA Sushi Bar Restaurant springs for three April specials on its menu: five kinds of spicy or crunchy hand rolls ($3 each), chicken udon soup ($5) or Zen tofu soup ($5). Might need to visit several times before April 30!

Be the Yin to RA Sushi’s Yang at Guest Appreciation Night on March 27

You’re yearning for yummy sushi, sashimi, spirited specials and a happening social scene. Yin. RA Sushi Bar Restaurant lives to provide the yang. The Midtown restaurant and lounge honors all who complete them at Guest Appreciation Night on Thursday, March 27 from 7 p.m. until close. Enter the free raffle for a sushi social ($200 value) for you and your friends. Then, peruse the “Pick 2 for $10” menu for pineapple cheese wontons, pork gyoza, chicken yakitori, Asian chicken wings, garlic citrus yellowtail and more. Complete your visit with $5 Kirin or Kirin light, Hakutsuru “draft” sake, Fuzzy Momo Bellini, well cocktail or a glass of Coppola Bianco pinot grigio, Sterling Vintner’s chardonnay, Lunetta prosecco, 14 Hands merlot or Trinchero Main Street cabernet.

St. Patty’s Deals for Saving o’ the Green

Don’t wait until Monday to start reaping the St. Patty’s deals. Start now with this quick guide to keeping that pot o’ gold full.

All-Weekend-Long Deals

The Communitas Hospitality clan o’ restaurants in Midtown is serving up Irish dish and drink specials beginning Friday, March 14 and carrying on through Monday, March 17. 10th & Piedmont, G's Midtown and HOBNOB Neighborhood Tavern are serving green beer for $3 and Irish Car Bombs for $6. All three restaurants are preparing traditional corned beef and cabbage with sliced, slow-braised beef brisket with grain mustard and chopped cabbage served with golden potatoes and baby carrots, all roasted in Harp Irish Lager.

What luck! Milton’s Cuisine & Cocktails in historic Crabapple is offering three specials over an extended St. Patrick’s Day weekend of Friday, March 14 through Monday, March 17. Dig into beef, barley and Guinness soup; cornbread-crusted cod with buttermilk mashed potatoes and creamed bacon-braised cabbage; and brown ale-braised lamb shank with mushroom-barley risotto, roasted pearl onions and natural jus. Information and reservations: 770-817-0161.

Sunday Specials

In Brookhaven, Kaleidoscope Bistro & Pub gets a jump on St. Patrick’s Day and celebrates the anniversary of its patio opening by partying it up on Sunday, March 16. Irish food, a flood of Guinness and lively live music will keep Irish eyes smiling all day and into the night.

Monday Celebrations

Bantam + Biddy locations at Ansley Mall and on Crescent Avenue are pouring a St. Pat’s bargain on Monday, March 17. Fly by either place for $3 Guinness and $3 Jameson Irish whiskey pours. A glass of either is just the thing to add a little Irish fling to Bantam + Biddy’s meatloaf made with White Oak Pastures grass-fed beef.

LepRAchauns can celebrate St. Patty’s Day all day long at RA Sushi Bar Restaurant in Midtown, as beer, sake and cocktail specials will start at just $1 on Monday, March 17. Toast good luck with $1 green hot sake, $4 Jameson Irish whiskey shots, $5 melon margaritas and Kirin/Kirin Light or $6 Irish Car Bombs.