Asian-Owned Businesses in Atlanta to Support in 2026

Atlanta has five separate omakase counters in our directory. For a city that is not usually named alongside New York or Los Angeles for sushi, that is a real and specific thing worth knowing, and it is the clearest pattern in this category.

Around it sits a wider list: two Filipino kitchens, Indonesian and Malaysian cooking, Korean barbecue, a Taiwanese cafe that turns into a cocktail bar, an art gallery, a bookstore with a cafe, a family photographer, and a nonprofit that has served immigrant and refugee communities across the metro for decades. Thirty-six listings in all.

Quick answer

1. For omakase, Hayakawa, Omakase Table, Ryokou, O By Brush, and Brush Sushi.
2. For Filipino food, Estrellita and KamayanATL.
3. For fine dining, Lazy Betty.
4. For Korean barbecue, Char Korean Bar & Grill.
5. For Thai, Nan Thai Fine Dining, Talat Market, and Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft.
6. For Indonesian, Taste of Bali. For Malaysian, Food Terminal.
7. For books and coffee together, Maomi Book Store.
8. For art, Kai Lin Art. For family portraits, Alice Park Photography.
9. To support the civic side, Center for Pan Asian Community Services.
10. Our Atlanta hub carries the full list.

Why does Atlanta have five omakase counters?

Because the city's Japanese dining scene has grown around the chef's counter rather than the dining room, and our records caught five of them.

Hayakawa and Omakase Table are dedicated omakase. Brush Sushi and its sibling listing O By Brush cover sushi and a tasting menu respectively, and Ryokou is the fifth.

Beyond the counters, Nagomiya is an izakaya with sushi, Eight Sushi Lounge is the lounge version, Chirori works in Japanese fusion and robata, and Momonoki, Nakato, and Wagaya cover comfort fare and long-standing Japanese dining. That is eleven Japanese listings out of thirty-six, which is a heavy concentration and worth knowing before you assume this list is evenly spread.

What else should I eat?

The Southeast Asian listings are the ones most worth going out of your way for.

Estrellita and KamayanATL are both Filipino and both women-owned. Filipino food is underrepresented in most city guides, and Atlanta has two.

Taste of Bali is Indonesian and Food Terminal is Malaysian, which is a pair you will not find in many American cities. Food Terminal is women-owned as well.

For Thai, Nan Thai Fine Dining is the formal option and is women-owned, Talat Market is Thai-inspired, and Tuk Tuk Thai Food Loft is the everyday one.

Lazy Betty is the fine dining entry. Poor Calvin's works in Asian and Southern fusion, which is the most Atlanta thing on this list. Ruby Chow's does Asian fusion, Char Korean Bar & Grill is Korean barbecue, Nam Phuong is Vietnamese, Guy's Dumplings is exactly that, and Hawkers Asian Street Food covers the street food end.

For something sweet, Sweet Hut Bakery is an Asian bakery and boba shop, and Lucky Star is a Taiwanese cafe that works as a cocktail bar.

What is here that is not food?

Nine listings, which is a better non-food showing than most identity categories in our directory manage.

Maomi Book Store is a bookstore with a cafe and is women-owned, which makes it the one place on this page you could spend an afternoon without ordering a meal.

Kai Lin Art is a contemporary art gallery. Alice Park Photography is a natural-light family, child, and portrait photographer working out of Park Studios in Buckhead, and it carries a paid tier, so its page is built out properly.

In beauty, Sugarcoat Beauty and The Les Mains Nail Bar are both nail and beauty salons and both women-owned.

In wellness, Tejari makes a USDA Organic plant-based superfood protein sweetened with dates and is made in Atlanta, Eleven TLC makes adaptogenic teas and wellness foods, and Rawsome Juicery does juices, smoothies, and vegan meals. All three are women-owned, and all three sell products you can buy without being in Georgia.

Center for Pan Asian Community Services is an Atlanta nonprofit providing health and human services to immigrant and refugee communities. It is the civic anchor of this list and takes volunteers as readily as donations.

How much overlaps with the women-owned list?

Nine of the thirty-six: Sugarcoat Beauty, The Les Mains Nail Bar, Eleven TLC, Rawsome Juicery, Tejari, Estrellita, Food Terminal, Nan Thai Fine Dining, and Maomi Book Store.

Note that eight of those nine are outside the Japanese restaurant group. The non-food half of this category is overwhelmingly women-owned, which is a pattern you only see by reading two tags together.

What is not on this list?

The professions, the trades, and Buford Highway.

There is no Asian-owned attorney, accountant, physician, dentist, pharmacist, contractor, insurance agent, or grocery listed in metro Atlanta in our directory. The grocery absence is the strangest one, given how many there are.

The geography is the bigger gap. Metro Atlanta's Asian business community is concentrated along the Buford Highway corridor and in Chamblee, Doraville, Duluth, and Gwinnett County, and we have no published listings in any of them. This page is intown Atlanta restaurants that food media covered, which is a narrow slice of a much larger picture.

If you run an Asian-owned business in any of those places or categories, you would be the first one listed. Listings are free to add.

How is ownership determined?

Each listing shows a verification status. Publicly listed means ownership was recorded from a public source such as a chamber directory or the business's own description. Self identified means the owner told us directly. Certified means a third party verified it.

We never infer ownership from a surname, a photo, or the cuisine a restaurant serves. That trap is particularly easy to fall into on a page with eleven Japanese restaurants on it: the menu is not the evidence, the source is.

"Asian-owned" also covers an enormous range, from Filipino to Indonesian to Taiwanese to Korean, and treating it as one thing is its own mistake. Where a listing records something more specific, this guide says so.

Atlanta also has guides to its Black-owned, women-owned, Latino-owned, and LGBTQ-owned businesses.

Common mistakes

Reading this as a map of Asian Atlanta. It is a map of intown restaurants that got written about. The Buford Highway corridor, where much of the actual business community is, has no listings here at all.

Assuming the cuisine tells you the ownership. It does not, in either direction.

Treating the category as one community. Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Korean, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, and Japanese businesses are all on this page.

Missing the nine non-food listings. The gallery, the bookstore, the photographer, the nonprofit, and the three wellness brands are easy to scroll past in a list this restaurant-heavy.

FAQ

Sources

• Business names, categories, cities, and ownership tags come from published Inclusivity.org listings in the metro Atlanta directories (Atlanta, Kennesaw), queried 2026-08-15. Counts reflect that snapshot.
• Atlanta's Asian population share, about 5%, is from American Community Survey five-year estimates (5.2%) as reported by Neilsberg and Georgia Demographics.
• "Brush Sushi" and "O By Brush" are recorded as two separate published listings and are treated as two here. If they are one business with two rooms, the pair should be reviewed.