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Fuji's Japanese Restaurant
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
3 reviews for Fuji's Japanese Restaurant
Whatever. That guy is being a douchebag. I served him and his way cool wife at Fuji's for a year and a half. They were the ONLY people to order nigori sake- yet we carried it still. He didn't complain about getting the best possible value for his money, and he knows that most of the servers try damn hard to provide bend-over-backwards service. The sushi chefs might not have time to entertain guests, but they try to get your food out as fast as they can.
Working there, and eating there, I really don't know what he's talking about. I've only been to a couple of places in the area that had better fish, but you know what? Better fish is more expensive, and places like that tend to be less creative with their offerings. Fuji's is the only happy medium around, and if I hadn't moved away, I'd be proud to continue working there... Whatever. That guy's being bipolar.
Why do I have to select one star? I wouldn't go to Fuji's again if someone held a gun to my head, since the sushi there would kill me slower and more painfully than a bullet to my brain. The above review is almost spot-on. Fuji's used to be a great place to get decent, cheap sushi. However it was sold and the new management doesn't have a clue as to what good sushi is. Cho, the sushi chef the reviewer is referring to, is either absent most of the time or no longer works there. Which is a shame because the rest of the sushi chefs don't know their butt from a hole in the ground. The last time we gave it a chance, the sushi was truly garbage. I have had better at Marine Polis Sushiland (and that ain't saying much). The last piece I ordered stunk like old fish and I already had it in my mouth before I realized it was rotten. I got lucky that I didn't get sick from it. We will, needless to say, never go back.
If you eat their sushi after reading this, you deserve a Darwin Award, so please do us the favor of emailing the Darwin Awards site and letting them know that you are attempting to off yourself so that the gene pool will be a better place to swim in for the rest of us.
Tucked between Blockbuster and a dry cleaner, behind a gas station, I had no idea what to expect. I ordered to go, and was amazed at the variety of ways you can eat there. Half the restaurant is teppanyaki (hibachi) with white boys cooking, which is really weird. They also have a small "Yo! Sushi" set up with a couple of chairs around the revolving track, and then a few more booths to sit and order and get waiter service. It was crowded, so I think people like it, but it is expensive. I ordered the salt and pepper deep fried calamari which was ok but way too much garlic; I have garlic coming out of every pore, which doesn't bode well for any hot, or even lukewarm, marital action tonight. The hamachi was delicious, the tobiko was fine but not well made; all the eggs fell off on the ride home. The spider roll was sparse on spider crab and had a weird mayo taste. And oddly, as soon as I finished eating, my stomach started to hurt, which may be the overdose of garlic or may be completely unrelated. I totally had a "40 Year Old Virgin" flashback when a tepanyakki guy said, "Hey, this is Jim! Everybody, it's JIM, and it's JIM'S birthday, let's all sing JIM the birthday song!" The entire restaurant began singing happy birthday (in English) and I stood with mouth agape and eyes bugging. The Asian sushi chef called me over and told me he was out of spider roll, offered shrimp tempura instead, and I said no thanks and went to get it removed from the bill, which I had already paid. He then magically found one, so I took it home and then somewhat enjoyed it.
The rest of the menu is lacking. Sure, they have all sorts of sushi and "inventive" maki, but the rest of the menu sucks. You can order chicken katsu as an appetizer but not a meal; I didn't see an option for pork katsu, donburi, croquettes, saba, or anything else that I would usually eat at a Japanese restaurant. Their Udon is noodles, broth, and 3 pieces of shrimp tempura. That's not Udon, by any stretch of the imagination. Throwing noodles in a bowl of hot liquid doesn't make something a Japanese staple menu item.
The wait staff, particularly the super-skinny-red-headed-condescending young lady, are undertrained and overwhelmed. They may think that they can afford to be supercilious because they are the only Japanese restaurant on this side of Sunnyside, but honestly, get over it. Your restaurant is NOT that good!
Coming from California and eating AMAZING sushi, well prepared, and reasonably priced, in a real sushi restaurant and not some weird hybrid milquetoast beni-hana-yo! place, may have left me irreparably spoiled. I seriously doubt I will eat there again. It's worth the drive to Portland to go to a real sushi restaurant, or even to 82nd to find mediocre sushi.
7/1/07 I'm downgrading to one star. We were attempting to rent "Shooter" (damn you Blockbuster for not having the movies we want) next door and I had my husband peek in the window of the closed restaurant to see the set-up. On the Yo!Sushi knock-off track, with the stools up on the eating area, there was leftover sushi just sitting there! I kid you not...I could see California rolls, hamachi, and other sushi bits on covered plates left to get nice and steamy overnight and all day today. I hope they throw them away when they open, but that's just nasty. Even McDonald's rinses out the shake machine at the end of the day. It is so yucky to leave uneaten food sitting out to fester. I will not be eating there again.