I write this blog for friends and family... and I'm happy to note that the league of friends interested in my "Adventures in Food" has grown over the last year. There has been some interesting recent discussion regarding food blogs in general, and the question of journalistic integrity relating to independent "foodie" blogs in particular. I direct my readers to the "About" section at the top right of my blog page.
In this spirit, I publish this post. It's not material with whom I dined, nor the circumstances of the evening (interesting as these details may be). This is all about food porn: my initial concept for this blog. I often delay posts in need of getting details from the chef. Screw it. Enjoy.
I asked "Jet" to join me and some friends for a wonderful, meaningful meal at Nobu... we sat in the back corner of the restaurant, at the sushi bar, and let chefs Matt Raso & Mitsuhiro Eguchi dazzle us, as they do. Showing here:
It's all about crazy good food and all that is associated with it's preparation, presentation, and consumption. Go forth, be passionate... and eat. I'll do my part to get the taste buds twitching.
, it was paid for with Cold Hard Cash, and that's that.
BTW, of interest to me on my last few visits to Nobu Dallas: there is nothing "corporate" about these omakase meals, there are true artists working in the kitchen here.
Posted by: TheBrad | March 22, 2009 at 03:08 AM
It can take a little work to get a real omakase experience there. If you just walk in and request it without really *communicating* with the right people, you'll get the same, predictable, good, but totally safe "tasting menu" kind of meal that everyone else requesting omakase will get that night. It pays to earn some recognition at the sushi bar, so they know you will go with them wherever they want to take you.
Posted by: Gelless | April 01, 2009 at 05:40 PM
@ Gelless, precisely. That's why we sit back there, hangin' with Matt and Eguchi... the only way to go!
Posted by: TheBrad | April 01, 2009 at 06:00 PM
I agree with Gelless. I went to NOBU and asked for not your ordinary omakase 3 times and sad to say, we are not impressed. Omakase shouldn't be about "communicating" with the right people.
Posted by: Delia | September 28, 2011 at 02:38 PM