Trey's Entrees

Review of Nobu 57

Well, this place was highly recommended, and I mus...

Well, this place was highly recommended, and I must say it was the best place we had eaten at in New York, at that time. Nobu, you were impressive. I must say it was not cheap. We chose to do a chef's fare which was $80 per person. Please note I could have said $200 per person and they would have done that.

I will say even with gps mapping, this place was hard to find, so I'll attach some pictures of the building which Nobu was located in.

The drinks seen were the cucumber martini. Very smooth and light but still potent. Garnished with sliced cucumber and some sort of lightly pickled fish, which was slightly sweet. Very good. I enjoy chilled and filtered sake, so that's what I got.

The first plate was tuna sashimi. I've not seen such pale looking tuna but anyway ... it was excellent. Light soy sauce and a cilantro style garnish.

Next was the tuna sashimi salad. A zesty ginger soy dressing, we really enjoyed it.

Then the rock tempura shrimp. Omg this is what bang bang shrimp wants to be. The texture was money, the dressing was money. There was some diced (squid?) in it ? Excellent!

Next was the crispy rice and spicy tuna tartar. They cubed sushi rice, and fried it. So thats on a small skewer and you put the tartar on that. Wow !! Also, the ponzu sauce. Definitely not some jar run of the mill stuff you get in BR. This..,, you could taste the fresh lemon etc.

Next the black cod on butter leaf lettuce. This was a cooked dish which had some crispy skin !!! Wow !!! You eat them like lettuce wraps !! Yes !!

The last plate, honestly I did not get the name of. But let me tell you, the pictures don't do it justice. Even though these two items look similar to the ones at places like tsunami, the flavor packed in them put them way ahead of the pack. Nobu music was similar to tsunami but tsunami food can't compete with this. What I did not get a good picture of was the salt and cilantro under the fish. The sesame on the salmon roll gave it a deep flavor and it was properly salted.

A must when in New York !!