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Nobu Berkeley St (∗)

Address:15 Berkeley Street W1J 8DY
Tel:020 7290 9222
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Website: Visit Nobu Berkeley St website
Price: £90.00 Wine: £28.00 Champagne: £53.00
Opening Hours:Mon-Fri 12N-2.15 Mon-Sat 6pm-1am (Sun -11.30pm)

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This younger sibling of the Park Lane Nobu exerts a powerful pull on celebs & business hotshots, sucking A-listers into its orbit with its low-lit, chic & understated decor, loungey backbeats & dinky portions of low-calorie sustenance that won’t land you in Heat magazine with your cellulite circled. The ‘phenomenal’ food in the first-floor restaurant attracts almost unanimous praise, with mention of ‘delicate flavours’ & ‘intricate textures’. Hits include yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño, crispy pork belly with spicy miso, rock shrimp tempura, & freshwater eel sushi. The fact it’s all ‘prohibitively costly’ is a downer (especially given the cramped seating) while regulars also sniff that it’s ‘hard to see any change on the menu’. Service seems to have improved, with reports of ‘attentive & eager’ staff outweighing those in the ‘seriously bad’ camp. One final caveat: seats to the left of the staircase (up from the ground-floor bar) are a celeb-free Siberia of ‘pretentious wannabes’.

Chef: Mark Edwards

As group executive chef of Nobu’s London restaurants, Mark Edwards is the culinary right-hand man to celebrated Japanese chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa. Edwards started out working in a seafood restaurant in Kent at the age of 13, then worked his way through such restaurants as London’s Café Royal and the legendary George V hotel in Paris before finding he had an affinity for Asian cuisine while working in Manhattan in the late 1980s. After time at the Mandarin Orchard hotel in Singapore and the Peninsula in Hong Kong, he returned to London as sous chef at the former Vong restaurant at the Berkeley hotel, then worked at Nobu in California before launching the London outpost in 1997. He opened Ubon in 2000 and Nobu Berkeley St five years later.

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Reader reviews of Nobu Berkeley St:

Sonia G.
Reviews: 1

Sonia G. (Female)

I like the peruvian dishes the sea food ceviche is the best outside Peru, also nice anticucho, tender meat, and the sashimi salad is delicious, also enjoy tiradito of sea bass, very nice. The bar downstairs is nice and nice music, sometimes the services a bit slow. The toilets are very nice and clean.
enjoy it evrytime i visit the place.

Yesterday
Overall:8
Food and Drink:9
Service:7
Atmosphere:9
Value for Money:8
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Elizabeth P.
Reviews: 1

Elizabeth P. (Female)

Any restaurant that is serving fish which are so critically endangered as the BLUE FIN TUNA, should be AVOIDED. It is totally unnecessary to serve fish which are at a mere 10% of the stock of 20 years ago, ie: we have destroyed 90% of their population. These fish will be extinct if restaurants such as Nobu continue to have them on the menu. Please watch the film THE END OF THE LINE see: endoftheline.com and then you will see why blue fin tuna should not be eaten

9 June 2009
Overall:5
Food and Drink:1
Service:5
Atmosphere:5
Value for Money:5
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Liz G.

Liz G. (30s, Female, United Kingdom)

Went there with friends on a Monday night. Food-wise it was excellent, we really enjoyed every little bit of it.

Service was surprisingly poor – they brought us two large platters of food which seemed to be what we ordered, and just as we were about to tuck in, a waiter came up, claimed it was not for us and snapped the dish away. OK, we turned to the other platter on the table and got the chopsticks ready – whoops, another waiter jumped in, claimed that wasn't for us either and took this one away too!.. our jaws dropped. They did bring the proper order later but there was no apology.

5 May 2009
Overall:9
Food and Drink:10
Service:4
Atmosphere:8
Value for Money:9
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Karl K.
Reviews: 1

Karl K. (40s, Male, United Kingdom)

Disappointing experience against expectation.

It's one of those places everyone has heard of, everyone wants to go to and most are busy looking to see who else is there. The service sadly seems to treat customers as though they should be grateful for being there. Of course, we are grateful for being fortunate enough to be able to be there, but that's not the point.

The downstairs bar is cavernous and lacks atmosphere until busy. It's a good place to be, though, and worth taking some drinks there. The restaurant is upstairs and is laid out with a large are with a narrower branch. It's hard to get the table you really want unless you're someone the staff recognise. The menu is good and extensive – that new-Japanese style, which is supposed to have a Peruvian hint, though that's hard to spot and seems slightly at odds with Japanese anyway.

The food is delivered quickly – perhaps a little too quickly, but with these rents and running costs, turning tables is important for them. The food was good, but not up to some of the high standards set by Nobu's competition. One dish was particularly excellent – pork belly with ponzu. Have that if you go. You won't be disappointed.

All in all, it was pleasant, but… More

17 March 2009
Overall:5
Food and Drink:8
Service:3
Atmosphere:5
Value for Money:4
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Nicola D.

Nicola D. (40s, Female)

The complicated menu can be a little intimidating if you're not a Japanese afficionado, but the staff are very helpful and the food is fabulous – especially the black cod and the mouthwatering wagyu beef. It's picey but worth it.

10 February 2009
Overall:8
Food and Drink:9
Service:7
Atmosphere:8
Value for Money:6
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Tom F.
Reviews: 1

Tom F. (20s, Male, London)

Truly disappointing – the gulf between my expectations and what was actually served up was breathtakingly wide. Gaping.

What a bunch of incompetent nipples.

21 December 2008
Overall:3
Food and Drink:9
Service:2
Atmosphere:4
Value for Money:4
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Am W.
Reviews: 1

Am W. (Female)

I had a terrible experience here.

Wonderful evening until the bill came – they overcharged all three bottles of sake. The manager was really unhelpful and I felt that my patronage was not appreciated. I have gone here before a couple times – but the service seems to be faltering as of recently.

i would check your bill very carefully and avoid this restaurant if possible. It's a shame because the food was rather good – unfortunately, the way the bill was dealt with tainted the night.

19 November 2008
Overall:2
Food and Drink:1
Service:1
Atmosphere:4
Value for Money:4
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Nersen P.

Nersen P. (30s, Male, United Kingdom)

expensive but great VALUE…especially the lunch bento for £28 (which includes black cod) Still think UBON is the best of the bunch for atomosphere

1 October 2008
Overall:9
Food and Drink:9
Service:9
Atmosphere:9
Value for Money:6
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