Fusion Cafe

I’m a banh mi snob. The meat has to be right, the bread has to be right, the butter or aioli especially has to be right. Tried out their banh mi dac biet. Pretty good pretty good! This place passes my test. I will be back, sadly my office is moving in 3 months and I’m just finding this spot

The miso was delicious! The spicy meat pie was really savory, I ended up eating it with sour cream. Yum peanut sauce to dip the spring rolls in! Really affordable as well.

Delicious! I had the Metairie roll and miso soup. Fairly priced, clean and attractive environment, friendly and attentive service. Giving 4 stars because they did not offer brown rice for the sushi.

Never disappointed in their food or their service. I always get the Korean bbq short ribs and snow crab/​cucumber salad, my daughter always gets a Vietnamese poboy (delicious!), and we’ve also gotten sushi among egg rolls and other things. Needless to say, everything we’ve ever eaten here has been great. We go all the time and I highly recommend.

The banh mi combination was good but the phở was small and broth was average. I would eat here again if I’m in the nearby area but wouldn’t go out of my way to come here.

The sashimi salad is incredible, so fresh! I also enjoyed the Metairie roll & my boyfriend enjoyed the phở.

Yum. Stopping in here for lunch lately. Nice people & great food. Have tried wonton soup, spring rolls, & po boys. Really good.

love this place! very friendly service and a nice quick lunch spot. menu is diverse, and I typically order the seaweed salad and phô

Vietnamese and sushi. Clean, fast, reasonably priced, dishes plated nicely and close by. Like most places reviewed lately, I’ve been on a quest of trying out all the post-​Katrina eateries… big and small. By the way, this place is small and very casual; flip flops and shorts ok.
I ordered bacon spring, combination phở and Metairie sushi roll. All plates came out quick.
I’ll probably come back to amply test out their
sushi.
In regards to the four-​star rating, I base it on my experience and their execution-​not compared to other establishment. If I could, 3.7 would be an accurate rating but they were on cue.

I love Vietnamese food but I have to say that Fusion’s phở is tasteless and pretty disappointing. For starters the bowl is smaller than at most other Vietnamese restaurants. They also don’t put as much beef in their phở as others. And to top it off the broth just doesn’t have any taste.
I have ordered sushi here a few times. The sushi is quite good and the sushi menu has about 30 different choices. Lots of families like this place too because they have items on the menu that kids love like chicken tenders, chicken nuggets, and bubble teas.
The service is usually good as the staff is pretty attentive and upbeat. I will probably be back soon as my sister lives just two blocks away but if you want a better phở experience go further down the street.

Grill lemongrass short ribs was okay. The sauce was good. Service was good. Might be difficult to find oarking around lunch /​dinner.

If I could give this place 2.5 stars I would, but based on my experience here, I just could not really justify giving it that extra star. My usual phở places around town are Phở Orchid and Phở Nola, but they were both closed on this particular day due to holiday hours, and so my dining companion and I opted to try this place in a severe fit of phở panic!
Their sushi certainly looked good from the Unilocal pictures I had browsed but we did not order any sushi since we were specifically wanting a phở fix. So we did the Shrimp and Pork Spring Rolls and two bowls of their House Special Phở (Dac Biet). The spring rolls were good, but let’s be honest, it is hard to mess up a spring roll so I would be really worried if they did.
The phở… honestly…was just… meh. The broth was a lot more mild than I usually experience phở elsewhere, and I noticed the bowl was much smaller in portion than the giant bowls of phở I have had at my other usual places (and for the same price). It’s almost like their phở isn’t as authentic as the phở I am used to having elsewhere. It was not «bad», I still ate it, but I did find myself asking them for some hot chili oil to give it a little extra something.
Also, I noticed that there was no tendon or tripe in the phở at all, so I’m not sure if that maybe contributes to the lack of flavor. Perhaps they tried to «Americanize» their phở to please the masses. Everyone else at the place was eating phở, so maybe this is all just me because they seemed to be enjoying it a lot. But, I also must point out that the place was filled with white college age kids so something tells me that the crowd that usually frequents there doesn’t have a whole lot of authentic Vietnamese food knowledge. This brings me back to my usual rule that if I’m in an asian inspired restaurant, and everyone in the place looks like me, the food probably isn’t very authentic.
To be noted, perhaps their sushi here is what they do better at. I find that with these Asian fusion themed restaurants popping up everywhere, usually they tend to do one main thing fairly well and the rest is sort of just on the menu but not really their best fare. So given that this is a «fusion» restaurant, they probably don’t make their phở broth entirely from scratch like most authentic places do – and that is the difference I had tasted.

We probably order from here too much! But, we have yet to have something that we didn’t like. Com bo Luc Lac is ahhhmazing. The Phở is excellent. (we’ve tried shrimp, beef,) Veggie phở is veg mix bagged veggies, so we only ordered that once, but spring rolls are really yummy. One co-​worker has gotten friend rice a couple times and loves it. Bubble tea is super fresh and not too sweet.

The spring rolls are so fresh & very good every time. I’ve never ordered something that wasn’t made fresh, with fresh ingredients & wasn’t delicious. I love this place.

I’d give Fusion Café 4 ½ stars if I could. It’s my favorite Vietnamese joint in Metairie. The service has been outstanding the couple times I have been there. Egg rolls have been great and the serving size of the Pork Bun has been great. I’d suggest this over Phở NOLA and they are very close. I drove by Fusion for months before I finally went in. I’m glad I did!

Stopped in for lunch and got the house bahn mi while my wife got the lemongrass chicken vermicelli and both were excellent. Service was great although we were early and no one was there yet. Its more of a counter café usually. Prices were good and portions were perfect for lunch. Plan to make this a regular stop.

Excellent food and excellent service. We especially like the Fusion salad, it is superb!

First time really having Vietnamese food and I have to say my fellow Unilocalers did not let me down with this one. Number 1 I work right now the street so it’s pretty convenient that this delicious place is here. I had the BM2 and a side of egg rolls, they were both cooked thoroughly to perfection. Although the BM2 is a tad bit spicy for my taste but all in all it was all delicious. Will be back again to try something different

Not really a fan.
«If you try to do too many different things, you will undoubtedly do none of them that well. «-my mommy (then she usually called me dumbass)
I ordered the basic beef phở (they don’t do the good stuff with the tendon and tripe). It was bland. Boring. Blah.
I also ordered an eal sushi roll. Blah again. It was just all blah.
I don’t want to buy blah.
If I pay money to a restaurant, it is with the idea that they can do at least a good job at it or it shouldn’t be on the menu.
Nothing there was good enough to be on the menu.
SO…
blah.

Best place to get vietnamese/​seafood/​japanese food in metairie!
I usually order the Korean BBQ short rib… delicious. it is served with rice and vegetables and more than enough ribs to fill you up.
The combination noodle soup is another one of my favorites (Hu Tieu Dac Biet), combined with different noodles, and seafood all in one.
The seafood platters are also worth it, with shrimp and oyster filling up your plate.
If you want to get bubble tea, you should try Thai Bubble Tea.
Overall, a great place to get a quick bite if you are craving asian food/​seafood in metairie.