04/14/08

Excellent food

by shaft28

Went for our 5th anniv with high expectations and for the most part they were met.

Although we had very friendly service and were seated promptly when we arrived early...overall the service was very standard. Not amazing service like you expect from this level of restaurant. Nice folks, and at times on the ball just think I was expecting more.

The good - the hot and cold dishes were very good; the sushi great. I'll admit the tempura, California rolls and soft shell crab roll were very good quality but fairly standard in taste and presentation. Now you move into tuna and WOW. I mean WOW. If it had tuna, it was amazing.

The tuna with cilanto cold dish - fantastic. The spicy tuna roll - glorious. I mean I hate spicy tuna roll, tried this one and was blown away. Truly amazing.

We actually loved everything but there were 3-4 dished that just blew the rest away.

Dessert was great too. Delicious green te ice cream but the mochi ice cream was superb. Well worth the money and absolutely delicious. We will drive to Dallas (from Austin) just to have it again. Think $90-100 per person without drinks.

• Pros: tuna!, mochi ice cream
• Cons: parking attendants at hotel

03/27/08

Good as heck!

by btbam88

Pretty good food, great service, great managers. Was very pretentious though. Figures... full of Dallas's "VIP's". Not a complaint against Nobu, but the people whom it caters to are stuck up snobs.

• Pros: Food, Ambience, Service
• Cons: clientel

11/13/07

Lovely

by chtech

O.K. So I will start off by saying that Nobu would definitely be what I would call a special occasion restaurant. Now for some that occasion might be of the "I just won the lottery" variety , for others, it may be of the " I just want to be seen with my 25 year old arm-candy" variety. That's one of the great things about Nobu, and Dallas in general, is the variety of people you will see. Onto the food - I am not a huge sushi connoisseur so I did play it pretty safe with my menu selections, while my husband having a more experienced palatte went like a blank canvas into the pre-fixe menu, letting the waitress guide him a quite a bit. With that said, having grown up on Peruvian cuisine I was bracing myself for dissapointment. Color me pleasantly surprised!! Everything about the food and service was perfect! Everything! The Ceviche, the Kobe beef, the edamame. My husband was a little concerned after the first few courses were heavy on plate, light on food. He soon grew to appreciate the perfect portions and timing of his choices and was very glad for the extra room for dessert. I honestly hadn't even thought of dessert when envisioning my meal at Nobu - shame on me! We were fortunate to receive a sampler tray of desserts, if you will, and relished in every single item. We're talking last meal on earth contenders. Yes, it was expensive - but you get what you pay for. Even the couple that were seated next to us, felt compelled to tell us how much they loved this place, even compared to their former fav - Steel. Of course, this was before she had too much wine and told him he needs to spend more time with his family and then stormed off to the valet to get in their Bentley. So, go ahead, bring your Honda Accord and valet. If mo' money means mo' problems then you might as well get rid of it on a good meal.