“You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu has a restaurant in it,” Madonna wrote in the foreword to chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s first major cookbook in 2001.
Almost 25 years on, when The National catches up with the eponymous chef and restaurateur in October, he paraphrases the queen of pop: “When Nobu opens in a city, the city is going with change.”
So, what does that say about Dubai, as the city prepares for a third Nobu offering?
The emirate is already home to Nobu Dubai at Atlantis The Palm, and Nobu By The Beach at Atlantis The Royal, and Nobu One Za’abeel will open on Saturday in Za'abeel district near DIFC and Downtown Dubai.
Meeting Matsuhisa following a hard-hat tour of the restaurant – and seein
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