"Circle the Golf Depot parking lot, and you’ll eventually find Minato hidden in the back of a building with barely-there signage. This low-key Japanese restaurant has been quietly thriving as a Smyrna hangout for more than 30 years—just check the customer graduation, holiday, and wedding photos that line the lobby walls. You’re not here to stare at the old-school brown carpet. You’re here to hang out with friends in the sunken dining room and work your way through sweet chicken teriyaki platters and what seems like endless options of perfectly fine sushi." - jacinta howard, juli horsford, nina reeder