Nobu - Cape Town

Lovely setting. Attentive service. Great variation of food. One cannot try everything at one sitting so have to come to back. Try the Japanese alcoholic beverages and relax before or after dinner.

I had the restaurant week dining with the stars menu at Nobu last night. It was awesome. We ordered the oysters as an addition, and oh my word!! It was so delicious. I could eat 100 of those. Then we had the tuna tartar with crispy rice, prawn and mushrooms followed by Langoustine bisque, the tempura sushi, beef tobanyaki and we ended off with malva pudding... The entire meal was absolutely delicious. For drinks we had white wine, beer and I had to try one of the sake cocktails. Lovely. Service was brilliant. Grant was so attentive and kind. Ended off the evening under the stars outside and got to catch the blood moon. What an awesome evening!

N the first and only African outpost in his eponymous global empire, world-renowned master chef Nobuyuki 'Nobu ' Matsuhisa infuses his innovative Japanese cuisine with flavour and spices unique to South Africa. No stranger to international culinary influences, Nobu gives classical Japanese cuisine a contemporary twist with a Peruvian influence. Diners can indulge in fresh South African seafood and indigenous spices in mesmerising dishes such as Sake Roast Whitefish with Jalapeno or the Chocolate Bento Box; a dark chocolate fondant with green tea ice cream and a sesame seed tuile. A sweeping fan-like staircase leads to the 104 seat dining area and sushi counter, which is framed by a textured, translucent origami light that glides along the ceiling. The upper-level Nobu Lounge features a selection of Sakes including Japanese beer and Shochu based cocktails.

An extremely excellent dining service. My rating of the food was initially 4 out of 5 but the extra point comes from the service we had almost everything on the menu dribs and drabs of everything, what I really loved was that we came to the restaurant clueless on what to order and our waiter (Mthetwa) took the lead and decided on what food we would like and he was accurate on all of the options. Really enjoyed my dining experience here, I recommend coming with a group of friends or family and letting the chef decide on what you’ll eat or asking the waiter what he/she would recommend .

Fantastic service from beginning to end with impeccable staff. Food shines through with amazing Japanese flavour and exquisite tastes if yuzu and ponzu. You do pay for all if this and if I have to be honest everything a maybe a tad overpriced. But overall a really fantastic experience.