Nobu review by Anon
Went to nobu for the first time a few weeks ago. I've not had japanese before and thought that this was a good place to try it at its best.
Nobu is hideously overpriced - and I mean seriously. The portions of food are tiny.
Since I had no idea what most things were on the menu, I opted to ask our waitress for help making choices. The waitress we had was very helpful but seemed to make assumptions about a lot of things - such as knowing what certain dish names meant and contained. She also let me feel a little bit like I was being a pain by not knowing what things were - so I ended up taking her recomendations quite blindly, something I would never normally do. It was also very hard to understand her - she had a heavy accent (not oriental though).
What I ended up with I still don't know - all except the black cod, which was delicious but totally on its own, it was not accompanied by anything and this made it rather bland for me. The flavour and texture of the cod was lovely, but, like I said, it was just that little piece of cod on the plate!
I do not like strong or fishy fish - such as crab and trout etc, or salmon - so I told our waitress this. Some of the tiny little servings that were brought out were nice, but they didn't blow me away. I had a desert because I wanted to see what they had and also because I had had such microscopic portions of main dishes that i was still quite hungry (I'd gone there hungry so as to utterly appreciate it). The pudding I had was wierd, I still don't know what it was, only that I asked for something chocolatey. It didn't fulfil my hankering for a tasty choclatey dessert.
In the main I do not go out much, although I have been lucky enough to go to some very lovely restauraunts, but I still have a decent knowledge of good food, mediocre food and bland or bad food.
I had one glass of wine with my meal, as did my friend, and thats all.
When the bill arrived I couldn't believe it. I had expected it to be high - but for the food we got and the size of the portions, this is definately what I would call a rich chav's restauraunt - in that it is the name "nobu" and the michelin star behind it, and the mad price tag that lets people perhaps be a little austentatious with thier money and throw it around on a poor choice.
It is ludicrously priced!! Its expensive beyond the call of sense.
Its taking a bottle of nice sparkling wine at £10 and selling it as champagne for £150. That is how I would sum up this place. Big ol fat let down of a michelin star restauraunt.
I would not go again -
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Overall rating 
Food 5 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
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