Nobu was fantastic! The food was amazing, the best Japanese food I've had in a while, and I know good Japanese food seeing as how my family is Japanese. The service was great, our waiter was very attentive, our food came out right away. The cocktails were delicious as well. The decor in the lounge downstairs was beautiful.



For all of you who had a bad time in Nobu and think it was filled with a bunch of old ugly people, you went on a bad night or maybe you're the old ugly ones, because it was nothing but friendly great looking people.

It has been a dream of mine to experience the Nobu Cuisine and I was not disappointed! My husband and I had the pleasure of having one of the greatest meals ever! Everything was beyond perfect and the staff went all the way out. We sat from 7:30pm to 12pm eating some of the greatest dishes ever. I had the privilege of having the first cook book signed and now his new one signed as well. That in itself was worth it alone, but much thanks to Darren for giving us the Nobu memories I shall treasure for ever and again thank you to all the great staff and the tour of the Kitchen. You have no idea how you made a Canadian gal/chef so happy.

Nobu is living off of a celeb owner and a Michelin star.

The reality: overpriced, poor service and the worst Japanese food I have eaten in a long time. The kelp salad was so deeply bathed in dressing, it requiring drip-drying to make edible. Sushi/sashimi at Nobu were dry and poorly cut.

If you appreciate real Japanese food, go somewhere else. Leave Nobu to the rich and famous.

If you have ever been to NYC's Nobu you will be very disappointed when you visit Nobu London. The service is way below average - both in speed and hospitality and the food cannot justify the price. Bottled still water from Fiji might be fun for some but for £6? I am from Norway and even I was shocked. I guess it did not help when we were seated (after 30 minutes) next to someone else from Norway (Hello? We went to London to escape the boring Norwegians!). I won't recommend Nobu to anyone - choose Zuma, Sketch, Hakkasan, Spoon and/ or Asia de Cuba instead. Ps Tried the Met Bar afterwards... What a dull place! Don't waste your time!

Nobu certainly stood up to its reputation. I cannot recall another restaurant more packed with Viagra charged 60somethings and their dripping wet dates. I like raw fish, but that's another story... Nobu by name, slap you with a monstrous bill by nature...

I received simply the most outrageous and shamelessly incompetent and rude service on a visit to Nobu last Friday evening.

I am absolutely astounded by the fact that the waiting staff were so inattentive - that I had to wait patiently to flag them down and that they lacked basic courtesy and manners to apologise for grossly unacceptable errors which amounted to some pernicious catalogue indeed! You would expect a lot more than this level (or lack) of service in a restaurant in this league!!

The evening was marred by the following events:

1) someone else's food was brought to us by mistake - to which I was told - 'oh, they sometimes get the orders mixed up'

2) hair, yes, HAIR!! stuck to the breadcrumbs on fried quail - with hindsight I should have embarrassed them and said it out loudly rather than discreetly pointing it out to a waitress since she did not make the slightest attempt to apologise and simply took it away without as much as a word, and a replacement of the same dish was brought over a while later - which I obviously inspected thoroughly before trying!

3) The finale was that they attempted to charge for 3 beers as opposed to the single beer ordered - again, no apology was received for that ineptitude!

When a complaint was made to the manager, the same lack of remorse was evident. I should have deducted the 15% service charge because as far as I am concerned we didn't get any service or at least any decent service! My advice is don’t bother with Nobu London - it's not all that in terms of food and the service is completely atrocious!!