My fiance & I went here for my last night in NYC and were really torn between the $120 tasting menu that everyone told us to get, or the much less expensive a-la-carte that seemed to provide exactly what we wanted. We finally decided we would always wonder if we didn't try the tasting menu and did it. DON'T DO THIS! Unless you only want small tastes of very high-end dishes (like kobe beef, which was amazing), do your own thing! We were hungry right up until the end, when we reminded the waiter that we had requested the famous Black cod miso as one of our dishes and later found out he added it on top of our already ridiculously expensive bill. He kept asking us if we were still hungry, but I guess that meant if we said yes he was planning on adding that on as extra! I did enjoy the yellowtail jalepeno, the wild alaskan salmon sashimi salad, and the salmon sushi at the end, but I would have enjoyed even more a la carte softshell crab roll, more maki rolls, etc. And we were traumatized by the $380 bill, when we'd only had two drinks each. Don't get sucked in by the hype, take Nobu for what's it worth and get a deal by just ordering off the menu.
Pros: kobe beef, nice cozy corner booth, good service
Cons: omakase menu, too expensive, hard to communicate with waiter
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