When booking a restaurant online in Japan you get to nominate why you are there: anniversary, birthday, work event - or a date and, probably a translation issue, but you can nominate that the birthday or date is with your “lover” (not your spouse…).
So that’s what we booked - and we asked to sit at the counter. And we were given rock star treatment! Might have been the “lover” date but it may have helped that we had been there a few times before - for take out as well as dine in.
We indulged in the Chef’s Course. It included the most amazing appetiser of monk fish topped with caviar and Japanese peach, super fresh sushi sampler, a sashimi salad that included Hokkaido scallops, and a stunning steamed black cod with ginger glaze that melted in your mouth, rounded out by Wagyu roasted beef with a wasabi pepper sauce. Wines by the glass included a fabulous Alfred Gratien Champagne, equally fabulous Nobu Private Selection Koshu (Japanese grape variety) followed by a Grand Cru Riesling, Gevrey Chambertin Pinot Noir and finished up on a Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon.
Nobu has been at the top of their game for many years and in Tokyo they certainly have the full package - the venue, the bar, the service, the food. Did I mention the food? If you like sushi and sashimi done at the highest level, it’s worth the 10,000 yen per person for the Chef's Course. We relish great food served by friendly, approachable, skillful chefs and wait-staff. It was wow, again!!
a. 4 Chome-1-28 Toranomon, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan
w. www.noburestaurants.com/tokyo
f. www.facebook.com/NOBUTokyo/
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