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Ray's in the City

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  • 240 Peachtree St.
     Atlanta, Georgia 30303
    (404) 524-9224
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Ray's in the City

  • January 11, 2026
  • Rated 2 of 5 by Little Ayun from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Here’s a rhetorical question for you. It’s kind of like one of those zen koans: What do you call a seafood restaurant that has run out of almost every fish listed on the menu? The kitchen had run out of salmon, tuna, grouper and scallops by the time we showed up for dinner (admittedly on a Sunday night, which is the time when restaurants are most likely to run out of perishable food), leaving us about 5 different entrée choices, only two of them actually involving seafood. The rub is that we weren’t looking at a menu that gets handed to every customer every day of the week. Ray’s does a different menu every day, and the chef decided to offer multiple renditions of the most popular fish to get the menu to a good length, even though doing so pretty much guaranteed that he’d run out of all of them well before closing. We had been looking forward to the secondary sushi menu and sake list, after being burned by a closed-for-the-night-at-9-PM Japanese place on the other side of downtown, but our only options there were cucumber rolls and pieces of eel.

I ate with two colleagues, and all three of us ended up ordering crab cakes, which were good but not worth the price. This cost-to-quality disconnect seemed to be universal when it came to downtown restaurants.

Though it was a poor match with my meal, I ordered a small cold pitcher from the extensive sake list – Ray’s might be a good choice for a pre- or post-dinner cocktail, though, again, you’ll pay more than you ought to.

From journal Looking for the Cool in Atlanta

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Ray's in the City

  • July 17, 2025
  • Rated 5 of 5 by CurlyGirl from Raleigh, North Carolina
Ray's in the City, brother to Ray's on the River, delivers impeccable service and charm with it. Enter from bustling Peachtree Street and you are immediately swept into a fine-dining extravaganza. Gaze out at the street with the full windows, or look to the wall for an assortment of oceanic beauty.

The menu offers a delightful array of seafood choices, and the chef's specials are an excellent enhancement to the menu. The fish is fresh - no more than 2 days from the water - and comes from not only the Atlantic Seaboard. One of the specials of the evening was an Alaskan salmon, a delectable treat for the area. I chose a seafood pasta containing shrimps, scallops, and mussels, and it was fresh and as seafood should be - delicious. Dessert is divine, truly, and they offer a variety of choices. I went with a brownie topped with vanilla ice cream, caramel drizzlings, and banana slices - a rather classic dessert, but done incredibly at Ray's. The warm brownie and the cold ice cream left me with a sensation that won't be forgotten.

From journal Brief Business in Atlanta

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