Fushimi — Restaurant in New York

We have been coming here for over 20 years. First wooden chop sticks got replaced with plastic, then with chip fan era ones. Well, you could understand that, people like to carry away something to memories the event. But yesterday I was shocked to realize that nice Asian plates that make all the experience unpick were gone, food comes on chip white ones. I guess the thought was Americans won’t notice, they travel abroad wearing a pair of sketchers they dig for wide in the their back yard, but Americans don’t go to fishimi, they don’t eat raw fish, they spit out cavia. You will lose your regular customers that pay attention to ambiance , and dishes are a major factor. Drinks have gone down the drain which is a shame. They got rid of a bartender, they think anyone could make a drink. Well chip vodka overwhelms the taste of anything, leachi martini are now just 3 of them on a stick that are supposed to be making up for leechi juice , well it does not. They also don’t bother to make arrangements on your plate any more. It’s history. It is simple now. Squid for fried calamari comes from frozen from shoprite. Don’t bother with special rolls, they have less and less fish and rice could be overcooked. We just came from Korean restaurant in the city, $$, they bother with traditional dishes. It makes me feel you disrespect your customers, you think lower of them than of yourself. I put 4 stars only for quality of raw fish, which we have been...

Went for Valentine’s Day, they over booked and reservations had to wait 20 minutes. Then we got sat next to the kitchen on a tiny table that couldn’t fit anything practically sitting on top of other couples. So when we saw a small booth open we asked if we could switch. The young manger lady told us rudely, “no that booth for 4 people “ keep in mind we asked to move 3x times before this. So we accepted this answer, then not even 5 minutes later that same lady sits a couple in thst booth. When we confronted her she came up with some nonsense excuse, and didn’t even offer a sincere apology. Valet stunk, The time between our appetizer and food was almost a hour. I’m usually pretty positive towards restaurants and give the benifit of the doubt but when your paying for sushi Thsts triple the price than every where else on Staten Island you’d hope you’d be shown just a lil respect...

Pretty good visit! The service was great and most of our dishes were delicious. We tried some new things and left satisfied. The Samurai special cocktail was particularly good. My ONLY complaint is that one of the specials, the burgundy mushroom truffle roll, did not taste like truffle at all. The mushrooms were good and the roll itself tasted fresh BUT the truffle taste was lacking. And the shavings on top of the sushi smelled like dirty dish rags and I had to remove them because the smell was so strong it was messing with my appetite and the whole meal. I’m a HUGE truffle fan so I tend to have it quite often and I’ve never had this happen before. Not sure what happened here but .. otherwise, the food was great. Will be coming back but likely won’t be having truffle...