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*The Dallas Morning News has selected this location as one of the Top 100 Restaurants in D-FW.*
More sensitive palates can judge Nobu as a restaurant. As a nightspot, it's bound for a decent run, thanks to celebrity buzz and a ready market of all those foiled diners who can't get a table. One of the advantages of the former Beau Nash space, a bar you could circulate around, is lost. But people will tolerate Soylent Green close contact to drink where they think they're supposed to be eating. Expect this to be the mid-evening jumping-off point for the Fickle 500 for a while.
-Mr. Dallas
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Nobu Matsuhisa's Dallas outpost of modern Japanese cuisine mixes first-rate and pedestrian cooking, often on the same plate.
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A recent meal at the Dallas outpost of famed chef Nobu Matsuhisa's global restaurant empire wowed us. Among many standouts were ankimo (foie gras-like monkfish liver); delicate avocado tempura; a beautiful spread of sashimi, including white tuna and suzuki (Japanese sea bass); and rock shrimp tempura in a creamy, spicy sauce. (Full review)
Is Nobu the hot spot that Dallas forgot? On a recent Tuesday night, it sure felt that way. Two patrons occupied seats at the theatrically long sushi bar, and the chefs behind the overmanned counter all but twiddled their thumbs. Only four or five tables in the dining room were filled, though the waitstaff admirably seemed to neither under- nor over-attend to customers. (Full review)