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2010-10-25
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Only the second time I've been to Nobu, but both this time and the last, I was thoroughly impressed. There are few who don't already know of the Intercontinental's iconic Nobu restaurant, and it's reputation is well deserved. The restaurant itself consists of a bar that greets you at the entrance, the main dining area, and a small sushi bar with room for 7 or so where the sushi chefs work their magic. The decor is exquisitely tasteful, but the mood given off is warm and inviting, rather than
As with my previous visit, my party ordered the set dinner menu, which consisted of 7 courses revolving primarily around, quite naturally, fish. Having not looked at the menu myself, and given the length of time that has already passed, I could not recount for you exactly what it was I ate, but I assure you that the food had no chance to displease. In particular, the opening appetizer, a tuna tartar topped with black caviar in a salty-sweet wagyu sauce, hit every note, and the pickled plum provided on the side was an excellent sour highlight to cleanse the palate with.
The main dish was a grilled kobe beef ensemble sliced thin and served with radish (sliced even thinner) and a spectacular soy based sauce.
For desert, we were served a banana parfait and a vanilla icecream. Though i struggle to see what was "parfait" about the parfait, a mere conflict of definition is not enough to obscure the fact that the nuts (I am somewhat certain that they used pistachios) used in the parfait were a perfect foil to the sweetness of the banana in the parfait.
To accompany our dinner, we ordered the namesake sake of the restaurant, apparently one which is exclusively made for Nobu itself. Though the schochu was in and of itself excellent, I personally prefer a dryer drink to accompany my food, especially if the predominant flavours are as subtle and elegant as those found in Japanese cuisine.
Though normally one associates Japanese food with sushi or sashimi, our set menu that night did not include a single dish containing either of the two. Though many may feel cheated by that (after all, it IS a Japanese restaurant), I feel that it is a mark of a great restaurant that can showcase all the flavours of Japanese cuisine, not use hackneyed fall-back dish items, and still make you feel satisfied.
张贴