Eric Dallemagne

Review of Nobu 57

David Rockwell, who designed the original Nobu, we...

David Rockwell, who designed the original Nobu, went to great lengths to replicate the current fashion in New York Japanese #restaurants for cavernous, excessively baroque rooms. There was a spacious lounge downstairs, filled with low-slung cocktail settees and a long bar of polished wood cut from what appeared to be a single gnarled cherry tree. Behind the #bar, columns of sake barrels rose dramatically toward the ceiling. Rockwell cultivates other aquatic themes in the crowded dining room and sushi bar upstairs.