FuJi Sushi & Steak House — Restaurant in Town of Busti

Absolutely dynamite. I'm visiting from out of town, and as somebody who lives next to the ocean: the fish here is fresh!

I'll admit it, I'm picky about sushi. I was spoiled by being introduced to the cuisine by a family of Japanese immigrants from the Kobe region. But I'll break down exactly how this place knocks this out of the park.

A lot of places will charge you an arm and a leg for a roll that's mostly rice. Not the case here. The rice is the binder that holds and compliments the contents, not the main star of the roll. These folks go easy on the rice (which is the perfect tangy flavor you want from proper sushi rice) without shortchanging the full-mouth feel and sweet vinegar taste. The rice is also properly sticky, without being practically glue-textured.

The nori is another part lots of places will short the customer. A poor-quality nori will act more like leather, making you chew through stringy seaweed to finally swallow the bite. This place uses an excellent quality nori that adds a very mild "seabreeze" flavor and flakes apart readily when you chew, but doesn't fall apart when you're trying to pick up your food. Absolutely perfect.

So not only is this place not skimping on flavor or texture or freshness, it's also not charging you for mostly filler: each roll has generous portions of fish, veggies, sauces, and tempura.

Oh! The tempura! A lot of tempura goes overboard, either slathering the items in batter or overcooking them to either rubbery consistency or ground-glass-shards sharp. This place has the perfect crispy crunch without it being the Extra Crispy Recipe from KFC, and cooks the contents to perfection without heating them to death. 10/10.

Also: the miso soup? Gotta be made in-house. Rare is the restaurant that goes through the effort to make miso soup beyond a dried packet in hot water, but this place does. The broth is smooth without a trace of the grittiness that gives away the just-add-water shortcut. The tofu is obviously fresh, soft but holding its form, not brittle or mushy. The seaweed is, again, top-notch nori. And it isn't over-salted, either. If this amazing soup isn't made in-house, I'll eat my hat.

ROCKED this first impression. A definite stop on my list anytime I'm back in town. Flawless.

Way to knock...

My family and I have been here a few times and it's a wonderful experience usually. We went a couple weeks ago with friends and since everyone was ordering drinks I decided to order one. I was absolutely flabbergasted to find a bug inside of one of the ice cubes in my drink! I flagged down the waitress and showed her. She actually asked "would you like me to get a new one"? Now here I made my first mistake and said yes. She left my buggy drink, made a new one, brought it out and took away my gross drink. I thought the night wouldn't get worse, but as my wife can attest, I'm usually wrong. I got the bill and had BOTH drinks on my bill. I was stunned. I wasn't expecting a free meal, but perhaps a "sorry about our obvious bug infestation" discount. I brought up the problem to our waitress. She said "well you did order two drinks". I told her one was not drinkable because of the bug. She actually looked at me like I was not going to win this until I showed her the picture I had taken. Her face was priceless. She said she'd remove THAT drink. I said that's fine, the picture isn't going anywhere. She countered with taking the second drink off to delete the picture. I declined. Integrity has no price. I suggest thoroughly checking your drinks/ice unless you're into whatever bug is in the picture....

Went here with a friend aiming for quality over the quantity of sakura, and it delivered

Everyone was kind, I loved the atmosphere and knickknacks

But most importantly I loved the food

The "godzilla roll" was some of the most flavorful sushi I ever has, each bite was constant harmony of all the ingredients mixing but never overshadowing one another It became difficult for me to eat it slowly because everytime I swallowed I wanted to experiance more

My friend who went with me said that their meal was the "best seseme chicken" she had ever had I tried a bite and the chicken meat alone even ignoring the sweet sauce tasted like the kind of flavor that some crispy chicken wings would have, very high quality meat even ignoring the delicious sauce which made Even the broccoli hard to ignore

A wonderful time, we will definitly be coming again and perhaps trying the hibachi...