Fuku sushi — Restaurant in Longmont

This is my favorite sushi place! The space is clean, light, and open. The food is consistently delicious, high quality, and inventive. The chef is exceptionally talented, skilled. The specials rotate with the season. If you haven't had the Longmont roll yet, give it a try!

For this trip, we had tamago nigiri, the Sasuke roll, the Haruka roll, the Ace roll, the Mango Ceviche, and the Saba Missoni.

The tamago was light, clean, slightly sweet, savory, and cool. I highly recommend having tamago nigiri to start your meal! I've heard that a hallmark of a great sushi chef is well made tamago nigiri. I believe that is the case at Sushi Leo!

The Sasuke roll was made with salmon and cream cheese, then deep fried. The temperature of the roll was perfect! It had the crunch and comfort of a nice grilled cheese. If you prefer cooked sushi, this is a roll to try!

The Haruka roll was lovely, made with spicy tuna, tuna slices, and avocado slices, and served with a nice light, citrusy, savory, strawberry sauce. I would characterize this roll as a summer symphony. The flavors were balanced, fresh, and complex. While it is still hot out, this is the roll to have!

The Ace roll was made with spicy tuna, deep fried, the topped with sliced tuna. The spicy tuna was perfectly seasoned, with some heat and a wonderful undercurrent of sesame oil. The batter was light, allowing for the bite to be smaller with a nice warm crispiness. Cooking the roll seems to bring out the sesame oil more and dampen the spiciness of the spicy tuna.

The Mango Ceviche was made with raw yellowtail, salmon, tuna, mango, and mixed lettuce/greens. It was perfect for the hot weather today! The ceviche was light, sweet, fresh, and balanced. I highly recommend getting this if they still have it!

The Saba Missoni was mackerel, cooked in a smooth, savory, salty sauce. I enjoy mackerel, but be aware that it is a fishy-tasting fish that not everyone may like. The mackerel was tender and delicious!

Our meal was about an hour long. Food was brought out as it was ready. The seats are comfortable and minimal. The building has a small vibration to it, which I enjoyed while sitting against the wall after I was finished eating. All of the food came out to about $100. While the standard rolls are available here, the specials and specialty rolls are consistently much more delightful. This is a great place for...

What. A. Find. Sushi Leo looks like nothing on the outside, but is truly remarkable. The inside is so cute and quaint. My friend and I both commented, simultaneously, about how cute it was as soon as we walked in. It is absolutely precious. Our waiter, who was the only one for the entire place that night, seated us right away and I could see him hustling and nearly running from table to table to provide the best, most outstanding service. They do have a small happy hour menu from 4pm to 630pm with a few beers one white or red wine for $4 and sake. My friend and I got the wine, which was a generous pour a d noy bad for $4. We ordered edamame for $5 and one regular and one spicy miso soup. The spicy miso wasn't that spicy, but still a very tatsy, rich and delicious broth. We then split two sushi rolls, which were delicious. The tempura shrimp fell a part a little bit, but the philly was delicious and full of fresh salmon and light on rice, so you can really taste the fish. We had lots of questions about the menu and our waiter was so kind and helpful with us. Honestly, one of the nicest servers I have ever had. And, the menu is extensive! From sushi, sashimi, and nigiri to udon and soba to curry and bento boxes! They are also working on two ramen dishes to come soon! I ended up ordering the chicken katsu curry udon and my friend ordered shrimp shumai and broiled yellowtail for her meal. They warned us her meal wouls take 20 minutes because it is made fresh. We both really enjoyed our meals and the chicken katsu was very good. Nice, rich, curry broth with noodles that were tender, but plump and fried chicken that went really well with the broth. I wasn't expecting such a large portion, but ate it all and enjoyed it thoroughly! Service was amazing and our waiter even tried to help split our appetizers that we shared from our main dishes, which was unbelievably kind. We left feeling as if we'd just found the most unbelievable hidden gem and yet, loved it so much, we don't want to keep...

OVERPRICED. BAD SERVICE. Average quality.

Overpriced: An order of yellowtail nigiri here is more than Sushi Den, if you can believe that. Three average size pieces of yellowtail nigiri with a tiny side salad is $15 here!! That makes it $10 for an order, which is traditionally two pieces in most every sushi restaurant I’ve ever been to, but for some reason here it is three pieces. $15 for three pieces equals $10 an order. Ridiculously expensive. There’s high and sushi restaurants in New York that don’t charge $10 an order for yellowtail. Yellowtail at Sushi Den in Denver is around 8 to 9 dollars for way better quality fish. How do you justify charging more than Sushi Den? Good luck. I’ll come buy the fixtures from your restaurant when you’re out of business in six months.

Service: After three visits to our table to drop off food, the waitress just looked at the stack of dirty dishes on our table and just left them there. I angrily moved the plates to the empty table next to us and slammed them down. Nothing is more irritating than eating in front of a stack of dirty dishes when the waitress has been by two or three times and had plenty of opportunity to pick them up. We were one of only two tables in the restaurant at the time as well, so they definitely were not busy. It’s insulting. We had to ask for water refills as well. How tacky is that in a sushi restaurant?

Chicken Teriyaki bowl: One of my kids had the chicken teriyaki bowl. This was a joke at $16. There was about four or five tiny little strips of chicken teriyaki over a giant pile of white of rice with about a half cup of vegetables for $16. This felt like a complete rip off.

Nigiri: Octopus nigiri was average, but overpriced. The 2 orders of tobiko were decent, but the rice cups fell apart as soon as they were picked up. The yellowtail roll was $11. Really? A $7 roll pretty much ANYWHERE else is $11 here?! Why?

HORRIBLE SERVICE and EXTREMELY OVERPRICED.

We will DEFINITELY...