Nobu

Finally got a chance to go to the much hyped Nobu here in Houston.

Very fancy door, which leads you to bar and dining upstairs.

Since it's still new, a reservation is highly recommended.

This is the Shichimi Passion, which has passion fruit, honey, lime and shichimi.  Shichimi is a 7 spice mixture in Japanese cuisine, essentially peppers of several kinds mixed together.

This is the lobster taco, pretty good, a tad too tiny.  Could eat alot of these.

Horse Mackerel sashimi with dried miso, garlic bits and yuzu infused oil.  Together, is actually very good.  Definitely recommend that.

This is the Uni Shooter...

... it has uni (sea urchin), yuzu sauce, quail egg.  Sadly, all I tasted was the yuzu and egg going down, not the uni.

Artichoke salad- too blend for my taste.  As a matter of fact, I tasted it and saved calories for other dishes.

This is the Eggplant Spicy Miso, pretty good, it is served warm.

Wagyu dumpling, which was hailed by alot of Yelp reviews.  Personally, in this method, you couldn't really taste the different between the wagyu beef that I know you can.  It's not a bad dish, but maybe get a different wagyu dish that feature the flavors instead.

Scallop with spicy garlic.  The sauce on top of the scallops are like a verde salsa sauce.  Pretty good, but again, didn't truly feature the flavor on the protein.

Ahh, finally Uni Sushi... since I didn't taste any uni from the shooter, had to make up for it somehow, and we ended up getting the nigiri to make up for it.  Much better this round.

This is the Cappuccino dessert, which in a simpler term, it is pretty much tiramisu with whiskey whipped cream.  Its texture and taste is very close to a tiramisu served in a demitasse cup, which means it's tiny.

Overall, I knew I came here for hype.  At first when you sat down, they really delivered, drinks, explaining the menu, the dishes, and what not.  As the night went on, the service pace got slower and slower, to dragged and almost forgotten.  Not sure if it's the staff still getting acclimated or if the kitchen hasn't adjusted, but over all, a meal like this should not last more than 2 hours, but it did.

Again, I knew it would be a lot of hype, but having having the food, I expected more from the name, Nobu.  Dishes aren't super creative, drinks were more creative than the food.  And some hype online about the sea bass, but let's face it, you can get steamed sea bass at alot of places.  For the price I'm paying, I expected them to be better than say Uchi or Kuu.  Maybe after they've been opened a while, things would be different, but for now, I'm going back to Uchi.

If you are coming, make sure you check the reservation.  We tried to make a reservation at the hostess  station, to only find that after she fiddled with it for a few minutes that they're unable to do that there. I did it on OpenTable just fine.  And since it's hot, I wouldn't recommend the patio.  Plus, that space is smaller than you think from the outside.

Nobu Houston

inside Galleria Mall

5115 Westheimer Rd

C-3515

Houston, TX 77056

832-987-2599

https://noburestaurants.com/houston/home-2/