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😒 3/5 - very delicious food, unforgivably appalling acoustics
By 👻 @mvmum, 08/03/2022 3:00 am
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Went to Nobu on a Wednesday night at 8pm as a treat with old friends from abroad we rarely see (we were 2 couples). I asked for a non-alcoholic cocktail to start and asked the barman to choose it and whatever they brought me was delightful! We shared lots of wine and a large number of dishes including sashimi, sushi, avocado salad, and hot food such as black cod miso, beef and shrimp and they were all superb in flavour. Even a simple sushi roll tastes way better at Nobu than anywhere else. I cannot fault the food. It really is awesome. However I am inspired to review the experience because the atmosphere was so terrible. There are no soft furnishings whatsoever - no table cloths, rugs, window blinds, canvases on the walls or acoustic panels on the ceiling. The decor is shiny hard floor, hard tables, glossy walls. Think MacDonalds or hospital cafeteria. The acoustics are terrible! We were literally shouting at each other all night to be heard at a small table for 4. We were at a table next to a big round table with 7 loud men and one woman and they were in a corner next to a glossy wall so the sound of their voices and laughter reverberated everywhere. But it wasn’t just them. The people on our other side were against large windows all along Park Lane so their voices bounced of the windows as well. It wasn’t just how unpleasant it was to have to shout for 2.5 hours to hold a conversation. I also thought to myself that Covid is still around and everyone in the room really had to expel a lot of breath shouting just to be heard. It didn’t feel well ventilated. It was muggy and too warm. Lastly, none of us could hear what the waiters said. At one point a waiter delivered a double potion of popcorn shrimp with three delicious sauces and he put them down and named each sauce and walked away and we all laughed because none of us could hear what he said. There was another waiter who said something to me I couldn’t hear and when I said “I can’t hear you. It’s so loud in here!” he blanked me and walked away. I wanted empathy or acknowledgment from the staff that it was a horrible shouty atmosphere but didn’t get it. I guess they’re used to it. We aren’t particularly old (under 50). It actually makes me angry that the ownership or management don’t understand that at luxury prices and location they need to do better with atmosphere. I woke up hoarse!
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