Fuji Japanese restaurant specializes in traditional Japanese food and is located in the heart of downtown Guelph, across form the train station. Offering a la carte service at buffet prices you will be sure to have a great experience of Fuji.
Be careful eating here. The white tuna roll contained bones, one was quite large. Also, one of the fish on the rainbow roll had bones in it to. We were quite disappointed. They had different rolls than we had seen before and having a description of what the rolls contained would have been useful. On our second order we stayed away from the fish and were not blown away by the california or cucumber rolls we ordered. Sushi (rice with fish piece) was not bad, and you got a good quantity of fish. Service was about par of what other all you can eat sushi restaurants are like. Place smelt like sulfur when we first added, not sure if thats something they put in the food or if they had a gas leak. Will not return.
I love this restaurant. While the service is slow and questionable at times I couldn't really care less because the food is delicious and comes hot. Anything salmon is tasty as heck. and the seaweed salad is delicious.
my only complaint is that they could make their 'spicy' dishes a bit more spicy. Otherwise - it's a very good place to go for sushi if you don't mind the average decoration and average service.
I am a sushi and japanese-style foods but at this all-you-can-eat, I have never been without feeling like I'm compromising quality and taste for money. As a student, my friends often request that we go to Fuji for economical reasons but I think that the next time I will have to decline. The miso was absolutely terrible the last two times; no flavour and much too salty. The unagi roll I had the last time was overdone, chewy, and had too much rice to fish. I ordered a platter of sashimi with wasabi and the wasabi was dried up and very clearly old and refrigerated (that was really disconcerting and I let the rest of the table eat most of it).
The service is bare minimum just so long as you get used to meeting the servers half-way and signaling whenever something is needed. However, I have known some all-you-can-eat restaurants to have strange policies when it comes to tipping so I asked my waiter if he got to keep tips and he said he didn't! To make sure I understood him, I asked him when I paid if he would be able to keep my tip or a portion of it if I tipped and he said he didn't. It may have been a miscommunication, but he seemed to understand me during the entirety of my meal and I don't see much of a motive for him to have not been honest about it.
Overall, not a place where my money belongs.
This was my first time having sushi and I must say I am craving it again already. I found the vegetable tempura to be quite greasy and therefore hard to eact with chopsticks but it was good. The vegetarian platter was amazing and the tempura yam sushi was my favourite. Our server was very attentive.
bhavin: I have never been a huge fan of sushi, but Fuji blew me away. There food was of excellent quality, and I especially like how the buffet was organized. The service was very good; the waitress did forget a few things, but it was not a big deal, and they were very nice about it. Also, on a side note for anyone that is interested, their platters that you can order are amazing. Great value for the amount of food you get.
