Aka Fuji

Tres bon sushi a Verdun. Décor simple mais joli. Intime. Service impeccable. Prix tres abordable. Poisson tres frais.

Food is certainly four stars, especially for Sud-​Ouest MTL. And the service seems quite attentive. BUT, the restaurant is very small and they are understaffed for peak times. So go early or on off days.
NOTE: No take out after 6PM on weekends. See my comment above about being understaffed. I uploaded the menu to make phone ordering easier.

My go to sushi place. Always fresh and delicious. Cute ambiance.

This is my go-​to sushi place, not just because it’s close to my place, but because it’s actually good quality, authentic and Japanese owned.
I’ve been there several of times and the service has always been exceptional. From what I can tell it’s run by a couple; one serves while the other preparing the order. They are always attentive and polite even when business picks up and orders pile on.
The sushi rice is always perfect; not too sticky and just the right temperature. The fillings are always proportionate and fresh. Their sashimi plate is delicious and well priced too.
It is overall an excellent price for the value.

having moved from vancouver, we’ve often been disappointed at the asian food here. this was not one of those places.
the sushi here is well priced, and excellently made. other than the elusive karaage, which does not seem to exist in its real form anywhere in this city due to what restaurant owners attribute to «local taste”*, everything else is quite authentic as well. authenticity aside, we really like the taste, and at the end of the day, thats probably more important (unless you’re one of *those* people…;-)
*this happened at a taiwanese places as well where we tried to order salt and pepper chicken… haha

BEWARE FOOD POISONING! Ordered from here last night. Waited an hour for the sushi. My girlfriend and I ate it and it was good at the time. Woke up this morning feeling awful! Sick to our stomachs. Stay away. Their service is crap as well. The guy making the sushi was really rude to me when I questioned having to wait an hour when he only had a table of 5 in house. Don’t do it!

Great value, best sushi in Verdun and for the price best value in Mtl. Went 3 times and each time was AAA quality. If you takeout the combo sushi the cheapest one is so affordable around 35 $ for 2, though comes with a large % of goberge sushis but still overall quality and confection is excellent.

Enjoyable. Not the best but still very good.

Aka Fuji est le meilleur restaurant japonais à Verdun.
Petit, intime, il offre une ambiance parfaite pour un souper en tête à tête. L’endroit est relativement tranquille et agréable à fréquenter. Le service est impeccable, assez rapide, et le personnel, attentif.
Évidemment, leurs sushis sont excellents! Le poisson semble très frais. J’ai bien aimé leurs soupes. Je n’ai pas encore tout essayé, mais je suis convaincue que tout ce qui fait partie du menu doit être tout simplement alléchant.
Le prix est un peu plus cher que dans les autres restos où l’on vend des sushis dans les environs, mais avec raison: chez Aka Fuji, on y sert les meilleurs sushis de Verdun (et des environs, j’oserais dire!).

Another jewel on Wellington street, Aka-​Fuji is tiny Japanese restaurant that can hardly accommodate up to 30 people. One of the reasons the service feels so personal and attentive. The place is decorated with numerous views of mount Fuji and quiet Japanese music flows in the background.
The menu is pure joy for sushi lovers and has extensive choices, including vegetarian options. Every sushi roll was absolutely delicious, the best is there were no overwhelming tastes and spices, the sushi just tastes natural and fresh.
The choice of spirits is limited to beer, house wine and sake. Nice touch was to be offered to choose your own sake cup from a little basket.

Really very good by Montréal standards, good even by Vancouver standards. Pricing is a bit peculiar, some things are crazy expensive and others seem under priced. It has become my go-​to sushi place.

An excellent japanese restaurant, with not only sushis! It’s a very quiet and zen place, and the owners are polite and quite serviceable! One of my friends, whom speaks japanese, started a conversation with them in their language, and it was just awesome seeing them exchange for close to 15 minutes like that!
It’s a small restaurant, but you can be as big a group as 12 in there.
One of the best place in my part of town for japanese food.

I love the couple that work here. They work really hard and their sushi is AMAZING. I generally don’t eat in here, I usually order the take out.
The quality of the fish is amazing and they usually take the freshness of the fish seriously. I would not go their with your children, there are no high chairs, and its a pretty small place. Its quiet and quaint!
I love their handrolls! As well, it is decently priced.

This place is Legit Japanese.
Having lived in Japan, restaurants which bill themselves as Japanese but then serve up something deep-​fried beyond recognition as «tempura,» or a mayonnaise-​covered monstrosity wrapped in rice and seaweed and try to tell me it’s «sushi» make me angry. Like green-​skin-​and-​purple-​pants angry.
I went here last week with the gf, and it was much better than I expected for a Japanese restaurant on the east coast, let along for one on Wellington St in Verdun!
The place has a very Japanese (but still causal) feel to it, which is obvious as soon as you walk in. The space isn’t big, and it wasn’t too busy when we went there on a Friday night. You could see from the back-​log of takeaway containers that the place is popular (there was a constant stream of people coming in to place and pickup orders). I always feel like any popular sushi restaurant must be pretty good — there’s not a huge room for error when you’re serving raw fish.
The tempura batter was light, and dipping sauce spot-​on (not too much soy sauce). The sushi was good, and I’ll definitely be going back there. I wasn’t a fan of the signature Wellington Roll (it’s deep-​fried, see above), but that’s more because of my sushi-​snobbery than anything else. I’m sure it’s great for you sushi-​heathens.
The prices were good value for money (not the cheapest place in town, but then again I wouldn’t want to eat sushi from the cheapest place in town).
We didn’t get sake, but there’s a few of them on the menu so you can indulge if you want to get your samurai on. They also have wine and beer, but you can’t bring your own.

Pendant un an, j’ai été chanceuse de vivre en Australie où les bons sushis se retrouvent en abondance. Même ceux vendus au magasin du coin à côté du McDo sont bons là-​bas. Ici, à Montréal, ça n’est vraiment pas toujours le cas. Disons que les poissons du fleuve Saint-​Laurent né se portent pas tous très bien à la confection de sushis.
Je suis donc allée à Aka Fuji en me disant que si je me fiais aux avis des autres, c’était pour être bon, mais pas nécessairement extraordinaire. J’ai été très satisfaite de mon repas et je vais y retourner avec plaisir. À voir les chefs aller, ils reçoivent quand même beaucoup de commandes pour emporter donc peut-​être que c’est ce que je vais essayer un autre bon jour. Ça n’a pas été le meilleur sushi de ma vie, mais il est définitivement dans mon top 5 des meilleurs de Montréal.
À chaque fois que je vais essayer un nouveau resto à sushi, je me commande la même chose: edemame, tempura, rouleaux variés. Les edemames étaient bons et sont venu chaud comme je les aime quoi que ce soit une entrée assez difficile à manquer. Le tempura était très joli (oui, oui… joli) et les légumes et crevettes étaient pannés légèrement. Pour les rouleaux, on a partagé l’assiette épicée et un rouleau Wellington. J’ai bien aimé les rouleaux épicés. Ils étaient frais et goûteux. Le rouleau Wellington était différent (il est frit et servi avec une mayo épicée) et bien qu’il est bon, c’est simplement moins mon genre. Je préfère les sushis frais et les sashimis à ceux qui sont frits.
Considérant qu’on est aux abords du Saint-​Laurent et non de l’océan Pacifique, j’ai bien aimé l’endroit. Les prix sont justes, les sushis sont faits frais sur commande, l’endroit est petit, simple et chaleureux et le service est délivré avec sourire.

Very cozy restaurant. Nice service, but make sure you tip. Try wellington rolls!

Very nice, cosy small restaurant, good and fresh sushi… and not even expensive.