Ponce City Market undergoes restaurant shakeup in the new year

Ponce City Market will experience yet another restaurant shakeup, as two Japanese restaurants move into the food hall later this spring.

Sandy Springs-based NoriFish, a sushi restaurant featuring seafood from Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market, and Okiboru, a Michelin Bib Gourmand specializing in ramen and tsukemen, will open in the former Miso Ko and Ton Ton spaces. Chef Guy Wong (Ruby Chow’s, Big Boss Chinese) opened Ton Ton at Ponce City Market in 2015, followed by Miso Ko at the food hall three years later. Both closed after service on Jan. 3.

Restaurateur Justin Lin and Chef Sean Park founded Okiboru in New York in 2018. The Michelin-recognized restaurant has four locations in metro Atlanta, including in Sandy Springs, Buckhead, and Duluth. The duo opened NoriFish in Sandy Springs three years ago, adding a Buckhead location last April. 

The additions of NoriFish and Okiboru make sense. It was only a matter of time before omakase came to Ponce City Market, and both restaurants have big metro Atlanta followings.

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Tomorrow’s News Today first reported the closures of Miso Ko and Ton Ton, along with a location of Sugar Shane’s and Chef Hector Santiago’s La Metro, which took over the former Biltong Bar space at the food hall in late 2024. 

The Ponce City Market location of Sugar Shane’s is no longer listed on delivery app Toast, while La Metro’s Toast and Uber Eats profiles are not currently taking orders. However, neither Santiago nor Ponce City Market representatives have confirmed the closure of La Metro.

Santiago’s other Ponce City Market restaurant, El Super Pan, remains open at the food hall, as does El Super Pan at the Battery Atlanta in Cobb County.

Okiboru and NoriFish join a number of new restaurants and bars at Ponce City Market, including three new food stalls backed by Dinh Tran and Khanh Dang, the husband-wife team behind VIỆTVANA, and upcoming cocktail lounge La Cueva.