8 August 2005

Go! Sushi

Nobu Berkeley

Seven things you need to know about Nobu Berkeley, which opens today:

1. It seats 200.

2. They won’t take bookings for fewer than six, but anyone can walk in and have a pineapple martini or a saki mule at the ground-floor bar.

3. It’s designed by David Collins. Tables are grained wood; walls have embroidered fabric trees. Very Goldsmith-friendly.

4. It has a hibachi table with three built-in grills, on which you can cook your own ishi yaki, shabu shabu and sukiyake nabe. (Beats a cheese fondue). And if you don’t know what they are, book the table and ask Executive Head Chef Mark Edwards.

5. Edwards also recommends the wood oven toro collar steak, the salmon tatatki on paper-thin salad and the crispy pork belly with spicy miso.

6. There are Kiehl’s products in the bathroom. (A public loo without Molton Brown: rejoice).

7. The basins resemble chopping boards. But don’t be tempted to sit on one; your bottom will get wet.

And don’t do anything else on them either.

If it happened to Boris Becker, it could happen to you.

Nobu Berkeley, 15 Berkeley Street, W1 (020 7290 9222).