Over hyped and not worth the price.
Having been to the Nobu in Palo Alto and having had an overall positive experience, I wanted to check this Nobu out. Nothing was terrible, but not everything was up to the Nobu standard I expected.
The good: cucumber martini was easily one of the best cocktails I've ever had. Their creative mixing of lychee with cucumber really set this drink apart. Yuzu yellowtail appetizer was also very good and fresh, and their handroll (yellowtail with green onion) and house special cut roll were not only delicious, but reasonably good values for the price. Dessert (fried banana with passion fruit reduction and mango shichimi ice cream) was overpriced but a very creative and delicious dessert.
The bad: lobster with shrimp entree turned out to be stir fried mushrooms with just a tiny bit of actual seafood. That in itself wouldn't have been awful, but the sauce didn't actually even taste great: too tart without much other flavor. Lobster tacos were also a huge miss: the lobster had been fragmented and stir fried with so many other remnants that I couldn't even tell I was eating lobster. It was also ridiculous that I paid $9 for a "taco," which was basically a tiny single bite sized morsel of mystery meat with a wonton skin shell.
I expect and am prepared to hemorrhage money when I go to Nobu, but I also expect a phenomenal dining experience in exchange. This was overall acceptable but far from phenomenal, and definitely not worth it for me to come back and drop over $100 per person on a merely acceptable experience.