text: Nobu Vegas much like other Vegas Strip satellite restaurants mehnnI cannot give it stars because the food is too good for that Not great like a real Nobu but good When you factor in the cost of us spent over it comes nowhere near what its name would implynnnDECORnThe decor is trying too hard pulling in all directions There are individually cool elements like the river rock wall or the exploded hashi ceiling But there are at least different themes like this all smashed together Complete contrast to japanese design principles of linear minimalism Must be the Vegas factornnnFOODnStarted out pretty good with a ToroCaviar dish Great mix of flavors and a unique sauce Everything after that including the sushi was was just good A beef tenderloin dish came out steaming hot but with little flavor and essentially raw asparagus and enoki still clumped together on top like it just got unwrapped from the plastic pkg I have eaten better in strip mall Japanese many of these are surprisingly good I am not a Japanese food expertsnob but I have lived in Japan worked in Japanese restaurants and cook a lot of Japanese dishes at home Then again so do millions of Japanese people and they are not all snobs or experts But I know how to compare Japaneseinspired food experiences I also realize there is a fusion element going on at Nobu but that is done much better at places like Sea Saw in Scottsdale Overall disappointingnnnOTHER FACTORS I AM NOT COUNTING IN MY EVALUATIONnbut worth noting for lolsnnTHORnOur waiter was absolutely unintelligible We nicknamed him Thor He looked like a Norwegian model from a Playgirl Very nice guy but we just pretended to understand what he said Every time he walked away we both said You catch any of that Me neither No complaints on the service just glad the menu was available to point atnnBLIND DATE VEGASnThe table next to us was fookin hilarious It was the most awkward blind date I have ever witnessed not on TV We kept looking around for cameras because we swore this was a setup for a show It is a crime that this was not captured on video This middleaged blowhard had this girl who had to be years younger NTTAWWT held captive while he ranted about his boat and his travels and his companies plural that he coudlnt talk about because of his work with the NSA He would have to kill the whole restaurant if he told us And he WAS talking to the whole restaurant He insisted on feeding her from his chopsticks for every bite He kept asking for her review of the date during the date EPIC DEFEAT He let us all know that he had to ask the universe for the right person to meet The girl seemed to politely disagree with the universe Bless her heart She was a troopernnAlso his chopstick skills were so good because he was raised in Japan but when she wanted him to speak Japanese somehow that got by his experience of being raised therennnsonnNobu mehnnThor enjoy ValhallannBlind Date see ya on the uncensored DVD