FUSIAN — Restaurant in Columbus

If you’re a sushi purist, this place may not be the best choice for you. However if you’re like me and enjoy Americanized sushi, you have to give this place a try. It’s the “Chipotle of sushi” in a way, and I love everything about it. They have pre-designed selections you can pick if you want, or you can go down the line picking which protein(s), veggies, sauces, and toppings you want on your bowl or roll. This means you can go as simple or as crazy as you want, and as traditional or unconventional as you’d like.

The prices end up being a bit higher than your average counter-serve restaurant, but it’s absolutely worth it for the quality of the food and the portion size. I also highly recommend shelling out the $2.50 for a fountain drink. It killed me a little at first, but their fresh and unique drinks are amazing. Combine that with the friendly service, dedication to the environment (almost everything they use is compostable) and wide variety of ingredients to add to your meal, I don’t know how anyone could not like this place. Definitely give Fusian a try if you haven’t yet!

Just to give you an idea, here are some of the options they have (don’t yell at me if/when they change): Bowl with white or brown rice, with or without kale; roll with white or brown rice and soy paper or seaweed Proteins: Raw tuna, raw salmon, smoked salmon, shrimp tempura, chicken, tofu Veggies: carrots, beets, asparagus, jalapeños, pineapple (awesome on a bowl!) Toppings: sesame seeds, almonds, tempura crunch, scallions, and as always ginger and wasabi available on the side Drinks: agave, strawberry, or lavender lemonade, agave gingerade, subtly sweet black tea,...

You can’t be serious? All the good reviews? It’s fast food sushi with staff personality to match. But when you try and operate a multi chain establishment and quality takes a backseat to quantity you get poorly paid workers who don’t care at all about furthering the company’s interest, serves you right, right? Serves you wrong though and that’s the point. The curry bowl was overwhelmed with long cuts of veggies so from a functional standpoint it’s awful, this is barely thoughtful, it’s a collab without a dime of thought or presentation, the soy beans overpowered the flavors, the broth was oily, the strawberry sticky rice: salty and not a pleasant contrast to the bland of rice and cooled overly hard semi sweet chocolate chips and un-ripe strawberries with all over no agave to speak of. The sushi? Boy, falling apart very loose, the crab overpowered the entire roll, proportion and portion, all wrong. Won’t change my mind...It doesn’t work and it’s not good... Typically I am light handed with bad reviews but I’ve eaten here twice in a year. Second time I thought maybe why not, I was as little impressed the second time as the first. I think the average suburbanite is so eager to eat something culturally diverse they’ll stuff poor quality sushi in their mouth just to be...

The best fast casual sushi experience you can get. I may be bias because I am a former employee but before and after I was working there I had countless great experiences. The staff is super involved and friendly and the message they get across is great. Sustainable supply chain accross as many aspects of their operations as possible. Their monthly menu item will always keep you on your toes and allow you to make the perfect unique roll.

They have plenty of different options in case the thought of raw fish scares you. They have plenty of cooked options for you to use in your rolls. Also, they accomodate many different allergies and life styles choices in case you are vegetarian or vegan and will gladly prepare your food away from other products if needed.

They offer unique and refreshing drinks which are created in house as well as fresh sides such as seaweed salad and a carrot ginger salad.

Enough cannot be said about Fusian as a place to get some great food as well as promote sustainable and fresh life styles.

I will never NOT recommend this place to friends, family, and co-workers when looking for new...