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Fuji's Japanese Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Japanese Japanese [Edit]
12270 SE Sunnyside RdClackamas, OR 97015
(503) 698-3941
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
17 reviews for Fuji's Japanese Restaurant
17 reviews in English
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Review from Derya A.
Oakland, CA
1/4/2012 1 Check-in Here
The sushi bar isn't phenomenal, but it's ok. The calamari off of the sushi bar is not so good. Ordering from the Chef's is a better option. The Fuji's sauce is the only reason I go.
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Review from Jenn H.
Portland, OR
1/30/2012
Have been there a few times before with no problems. We went there for my husbands birthday & I had called & left a voice mail for reservations. I called later and were told they didn't have them & the gal on the phone was rather short with me & told me whatever time we showed up we would have to wait. We showed up & got told 3 different stories from the hostess & the manager. They first said it would be 45mins, then was told by the manager we would get a table shortly, then was told they had to give that table to someone else, then later was told someone canceled so we could get seated. A little consistency would have been nice.
Once we were seated, our waitress was good and so was the cook. The food was good, but is rather spendy.
It will be awhile before I decide if I'm going to go back or not. -
Review from Terry C.
Beaverton, OR
7/3/2011 1 Check-in Here
I'm not sure what to say about this place.
The decor of this place is really nice, it's hip and very inviting. The sushi menu is very large and almost has everything that a sushi lover wants.
The grill menu...well that's a different story. The hibachi I think is OK, the GF and I ordered some special that has chicken, shrimp and Filet Mignon over rice and noodles. The problem I have with it is the fact that they serve Filet Mignon chopped up in cubes. I mean this is a beautiful steak that should be enjoyed as a whole, not cut up into cubes, it's a disgrace to meat eaters. Yes I understand that it's a hibachi thing, but wouldn't it be best to use a NY cut and slice it into strips? It would lower the price a tiny bit but at least it's better looking than cubed meat, expensive cube meat.
The salad that came with this dish has a ginger dressing or something like that. It really looked like...how do I say this? Odd? Like milky, textured paper pulp. It tasted alright, but didn't really like how it looked.
The dish was alright, not great, a little salty. But that massacre they did with the filet Mignon is torture. Presentation needed to be worked on, looked like it was thrown on there because the kitchen was closing. Lots of rice and noodles came with the protein that you get.
The sushi, the GF liked as did the GF friend. The tuna poke salad was nice, though the chunks were thin sliced.
A place I would go back again, but only if other options are exhausted. -
Review from Mei Mei S.
Happy Valley, OR
7/11/2011 5 Check-ins Here
The calamari teppanyaki was pretty good. The people that works there were nice. It is a Americanized Japanese bar and girl type of place. A little pricey for what you got. I make this place legit ;-)
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Review from alice t.
Portland, OR
6/28/2011
this would not be my Japanese restaurant if choice. their rolls weren't too bad, but they didn't have much of a cooked menu.
I'd probably only go again if someone else liked it and wanted to go, but not because I wanted too. -
Review from Ashley K.
Happy Valley, OR
11/1/2010
I love my sushi, and was quite curious about this place, so gave it a try. Was surprised to see that not only do they have the sushi belt here, but also the open grills that people can sit around while you watch the chef prepare the food right in front of you. Hmm...seems promising, ya?
Anyway, so we sat down at a booth to try some of their sushi. The selection was minimal but looked pretty good. The fish was decent, a little better quality than Sushi Land, but be mindful that the plates here are also a little bit more expensive. The wait staff was very friendly and prompt with their service. All in all, it was an okay experience.
I gave it two stars because I felt like I could have spent my money better elsewhere for sushi. For what they were charging, I think they should have offered more selection on the belt. -
Review from Denise P.
Gladstone, OR
5/7/2011
I took my son and his friends there because I thought they'd enjoy the whole benihana-type cooking show. While the chef was entertaining, all the meat was bland - no flavor whatsoever. And for the price, over half the plate was rice. Not worth it at all.
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Review from Laura S.
Gilbert, AZ
2/18/2008
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. -
Review from Jason D.
Clackamas, OR
4/22/2011
One of my favorite sushi places.
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Review from Rachelle f.
Portland, OR
1/21/2011
I love their sushi!! the philly rolls are always fresh and their is always a wide selection of choices
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Review from Kristen M.
Troutdale, OR
1/1/2010 1 photo
My fiance and I frequent this restaurant almost once a week and are consistently happy with the food and service.
The entire staff from the sushi chefs to the wait staff are always friendly and helpful. They greet you when you first enter the restaurant and thank you for coming once you are done.
The sushi is fresh and can be made to order or taken off the "sushi go round." Our favorite part of the sushi here is the "Fuji sauce" which really compliments the rolls well. It is because of this sauce that we always order the Sunnyside Roll. Yummy!
We definitely recommend this restaurant! -
Review from Krystle C.
Troutdale, OR
10/30/2010
Best conveyor belt sushi fix, EVER. The Fuji sauce is awesome. The prices are reasonable. The service is friendly. Compared to other conveyor belt sushi places I've been to, this place has a great selection, and they're always willing to make whatever you want on the spot. I've never had issues with the fish being dry or questionable, like I've had with other places (and I've been to this place about 15 times over the past two years now). So, take it for what it is. A casual joint with tasty, economical sushi. Not a gourmet experience. Ok? Ok. :)
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Review from Rebecca H.
Dublin, CA
6/22/2007
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. -
Review from Nunnya B.
Portland, OR
11/29/2007
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. -
Review from Loren F.
San Francisco, CA
5/20/2010 1 Check-in Here
I always forget about this place and I always think it'll be great when I come home yet it never fails to remind me how bad it is when I fool myself into going again. Cheap fish and meager selection. Though to it's credit I've only eaten off of the sushi bar not the chefs station. But still...
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Review from Michelle W.
Portland, OR
3/6/2011
Love this place, was our second time there. I go for the sushi my husband loves the hibachi and both were great. On hibachi meal will easily feed two or three people. The sushi was fresh and flavorful it was a great dinner, romantic atmosphere and very reasonable price. Can't wait to go back!
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Review from Bryan F.
Clackamas, OR
4/27/2009
Look, you can only expect a certain level of quality for a given dollar amount. Fuji's is a good VALUE! You get pretty decent sushi and a pretty decent price. If you want the freshest fish and best service and most inventive cooking, then maybe you shouldn't choose a sushi restaurant in a Clackamas strip mall. That being said, I eat here all the time, and the service is always good, and the sushi tastes just fine to me, and I have had great sushi from Umi and Red Fin in Seattle to Hokusai and Geisha House in LA.
Fuji's isn't going to knock your socks off, but if you're looking for some pretty good sushi at a decent price, it does the trick.
Get the Sunnyside roll if you go.
