Wanting to try all the good sushi places in Bergen County, my friend sent me a link with the top 5 best sushi places. Fuki sushi was one of them, and that was what made me decide to try this place. From its website, it's obvious this place was a small place. Not judging a book by its cover, I decided to give it a try anyways because I've had great sushi in small locations. The place is off a main road in River Edge, with no crazy sign pointing to the place. Walking into the restaurant, its maximum seating was probably around 25-30 people, including the sushi bar seats.
I went around 730-8pm and all the seating was taken except for the sushi bar. We were greeted upon arrival and didn't mind sitting at the bar. The bar was a bit dirty with previous unused napkins laying around. There were dirty dishes as well on the corner of the bar and the seat I sat at had leftover napkin and chopstick wrappers. From what I've seen, there was only one waitress running around serving everybody. I didn't get a menu immediately as soon as I sat, but was given one eventually after about 5 minutes of waiting (which was fine considering there was only one waitress). She greeted us with a friendly face and came back for our order. My husband and I ordered a seaweed salad, edamame, a salmon yaki roll, the Bronx Bomber roll, two glasses of water, and one hot green tea.
We didn't get our waters until 10 mins after placing our order. The waitress completely forgot our green tea, which we didn't press for considering we thought she'd bring it a little later. My seaweed salad came out at a decent time with the waitress acknowledging the edamame would be out shortly.
Edamame was steamed perfectly with no added sea salt on top (which is just fine). Our sushi was made in front of us which was entertaining to watch. My salmon yaki roll consisted of cooked salmon wrapped around the rice roll. Inside was cooked crab and avocado. It was served with a sweet sauce on top. The salmon was cooked perfectly and the crab and avocado was very fresh. The Bronx Bomber consisted of shrimp, crab, masago, and spicy tuna. The spicy tuna wasn't as fresh as I had hoped and was a bit dry. The shrimp and crab were fine and the spiciness of the tuna was perfect, only If it went dry. For dessert, we ordered one green tea mochi that was cut into four small pieces. Was the mochi worth $4? Absolutely not. I could've gotten a box of 6 for the price of what I paid for one mochi. The mochi was clearly from a packaging , considering I found a piece of plastic wrapping still stuck on my mochi piece.
I gave the restaurant a three star because of the service. I understand that one waitress was on the job, to which she's done beautifully considering she didn't have any help. However, regulars came in after Us and were offered wine glasses and drinks before us. She forgot the green tea that we ordered and ended up giving it to us with the sushi, half an hour later (although they didn't charge for this). One of the sushi chefs was chugging a Heineken while making the sushi (not sure if this is normal for all other sushi places??). The waitress didn't offer to refill our waters until the end of our meal, which was fine since she left the pitcher of water next to me, allowing me to fill it myself.
Overall, the food was good, although some things were a little bit overpriced and the service was good for only have one waitress serving a small restaurant full of people.
*Side note: the bathroom is a small little closet space underneath a staircase with a toilet that's worth more than the bathroom itself. The toilet is one of those awesome heated toilets with a million buttons to adjust the seat temperature, the options of turning it into a bidet, etc.
If you're a local, this is a nice place since it's byob. Otherwise I would suggest going to a different byob sushi joint. read more