Website: https://sonobananashville.com/
Sonobana Japanese Restaurant + Grocery is a Japanese restaurant and grocery market located in Nashville, Tennessee. The business combines a sit-down restaurant with an adjoining Japanese grocery store at the same location on White Bridge Road. The website describes the establishment as “Nashville’s Original” and states it has operated since 1987. Because it pairs a dining operation with a retail grocery, the business serves both customers looking to eat in and customers shopping for Japanese ingredients and household goods. The restaurant and grocery operate with separate phone numbers and separate hours of operation, each listed individually on the website.
Menu
The restaurant menu, as described on the website, includes a range of Japanese dishes and beverages:
- Sushi
- Bento boxes
- Lunch and dinner entrees
- Appetizers, sides, and soup
- Noodle dishes
- Desserts
- Non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages
The menu spans both lunch and dinner offerings, with sushi, bento boxes, and noodle dishes among the categories listed, alongside starters, soups, sides, and desserts to complete a meal.
The grocery section offers Japanese food products, ingredients, and tableware, including:
- Fresh seafood
- Japanese vegetables
- Rice varieties
- Miso paste and instant miso soup
- House salad dressing
- Low-sodium and wheat-free soy sauce
- Sake
- Tableware such as tea cups, rice bowls, and chopsticks
The combination of prepared dishes in the restaurant and packaged goods in the grocery means customers can both dine on Japanese cuisine and take home ingredients and tableware to prepare Japanese food at home.
About
The website states that Sonobana is “Nashville’s Original” and has been in operation since 1987, giving it a long-standing presence in the local Japanese dining and grocery market. The business pairs a Japanese restaurant with a grocery market at the same location, allowing customers to dine in and to purchase Japanese ingredients and goods during the same visit. The restaurant offers both lunch and dinner service, while the grocery keeps its own retail hours, including limited Sunday hours when the restaurant menu is available only for dinner.
Location & Contact
- Address: 40 White Bridge Rd, Nashville, TN 37205
- Restaurant phone: (615) 356-6600
- Grocery phone: (615) 356-9284
The restaurant and grocery share a single address on White Bridge Road in Nashville but maintain separate phone lines, allowing customers to reach the dining side or the retail grocery side directly. The website’s “Visit Us” section provides the location details for in-person visits.
Hours:
- Restaurant lunch: Monday-Saturday, 11:00 AM, 2:00 PM
- Restaurant dinner: All week, 4:30 PM, 9:30 PM
- Grocery: Monday-Saturday, 11:00 AM, 7:30 PM; Sunday, 1:00 PM, 7:30 PM
Additional Information
Website navigation includes Home, Menu, Grocery, and Visit Us, reflecting the dual restaurant-and-grocery nature of the business. The business maintains a social media presence on Facebook and Instagram (@sonobana_nashville). Menu pricing and a full per-item menu listing are presented within the website’s Menu section; specific dish prices are not summarized here.
Profile compiled from the company’s official website (sonobananashville.com).