text: So since her younger sister spent her birthday in London actually we spent my wifes birthday in Paris but her birthday fell while we were still out of the country when we asked what she wanted to for her birthday she quite matteroffactly replied Vegas babynnOK so we are in Las Vegas again for our daughters th birthday It is me my wife and our two girls These are girls whose preferred snack is sushi These are kids who grew up eating at places like Chez Panisse Lalimes kids who the people at the Cheese Board know not only by sight but are on a firstname basis withnnThese are Berkeley kids We go to NobunnWe have reservations for a show so we make pm dnner reservations If they had their way they would have had us out of there by nnThere were actually six of us for dinner lined up with dozens of other people waiting for the front door to be unlocked promptly at We inched inside as part of the reservation conga only to be shunted aside while they seated others who were in line behind us What Our table not ready THE PLACE WAS EMPTY UNTIL THEY LET US IN It is not like they had to wait for someone to leave before they could seat usnnWe listened to the waiters suggestions in terms of how he thought the restaurant thought we should proceed through the menu The three adults order sake the three kids ordered whatever it was that they ordered and we all ordered foodnnOK I do NOT believe that a place with the reputation of Nobu makes their sushi in advance I DO believe their sushi is madetoorder Honest I do But the sushi the soup the soba the hot plates it all came at warp speed and plates were whisked away before I finished swallowing the last bite Instead of a relaxed meal where we could talk drink and savor some extraordinary dishes we were given our check not cheap and practically rushed out the doornnIm had more relaxing meals at InnOut In the driveup lanennNobu No thank you