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“Nobu 57”


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  Night Out Asian Midtown Break the Bank Great

MY DINNER AT NOBU 57

Sometimes the familiar is tired, boring, old, and just over. And yet other times, it becomes classic and remains dynamic, thumping with life despite the years. Think Pucci, Paul Newman, The Beatles even. Technically, there is not much that is new about Nobu 57. The menu is plumped up with classics from the days gone by: Tiradito, New Style Sashimi, Rock Shrimp Tempura, Squid Pasta, you get the idea. The concept—Japanese swished with Peruvian stripes—is by now old news, and cloned with abandon). But walk into the new Nobu 57, a sexy palace of miso and fish designed by David Rockwell with swooping interconnected planes of fine mesh netting, panels of rich dark wood, and mile-high ceilings strung with alabaster shells like long garlands of popcorn, and sit down at a table and pluck a juicy rock shrimp battered lightly in a greaseless ethereal tempura crust (touched with just the right amount of creamy hot sauce), and you feel tingly and giddy all over again, just like the first time you walked into Nobu, all those years ago. There is room and reason for innovation, but there is also room for the preserving and praising the past when it looks and tastes like this.

In 1994, Drew Nieporent brought Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, an avant-garde sushi chef with a celebrity following in Los Angeles, to New York City on the urging of his Tribeca Grill business partner, the actor Robert DeNiro. Nobu opened on a quiet corner of Hudson Street and the phones started ringing. They have not stopped. And they now ring in South Beach, London, Vegas, and on 57th Street.

Nobu 57 was another one of our goodbye dinners for Susie, as loyal readers of THE STRONG BUZZ will know, one of my closest friends who is moving to Rome for an amazing work opportunity. We had dinner there last week (along with Jamie and Adrianne) to get her plied with enough Japanese food until her next visit home (or to London). When we walked into the bar, we found it three deep and swimming with men in suits, young women in sexy tops, and an alarming number of other women who clearly see plastic surgeons who believe that life rafts are a suitable substitute for breasts (oh dear). Apparently on Wednesday and Thursday nights the bar g ... [more, click below]

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